Taiwan January 2013 (Part 2)

On the third day of our Taiwan trip, we bid farewell to Kaohsiung and it was hello Taipei! We spend our three nights in Taipei at a small boutique hotel, Miyi Hotel, which is located near Taipei Main Station. Since my memory is hazy, I will only be covering the highlights of the trip.

Out of all the places we visited in Taiwan so far, I think Yang Ming Shan National Park (陽明山國家公園) has to be my favourite. Maybe it was because of the really cold air or the cherry blossoms (though sparse) or the fact that we got so lost up there that all added up to one hilariously memorable trip up the mountains. We took a shuttle bus from Taipei Main Station and the journey up was an extremely gripping one as we had to stand and there were so many sudden swerves and turns. 

Food stop to recover from our gripping bus ride.

As we went in January, there weren't a lot of fully bloomed cherry blossoms. But they were enough for us city kids to swoon over them.

This is probably the first time I saw cherry blossoms.

Pink or Red? Or somewhere in between?

A very happy old man.

Taiwan January 2013 (Part 1)

This is my first travel post! It will be about our free and easy trip to Taiwan from January 23rd to 29th 2013. This trip was supposed to be our graduation trip and because we went on an off-peak period we were able to enjoy cheaper tickets. For this trip, I only brought my film cameras and the photos posted here were by my Canon-A1. It will be my second time to Taiwan and I might post some of the highlights from my first trip too.

We reached Taoyuan Airport in the wee morning and had breakfast at the airport itself. After some transfers, we made our way to Taoyuan HSR station and then took a 90 minutes train ride to Zuoying HSR station to get to Kaohsiung.

Most of the passengers slept or played with their gizmos throughout the ride

Lobster Salad Onigiri and Bottled Milk Tea from 7-11.