{A Photodiary} Taiwan D3: Taipei // Paragliding // Jiufen // Shifen

Hello again :>

Finally got back to posting D3 of Taiwan although its been months LOL. Guess I should continue haha :----)

Our driver brought us to paraglide on top of a hill, and the ride took about an hour.

First time paragliding so I was really excited about it! :-)

It was drizzling a little and the area was really cloudy, so the visibility was actually quite bad. Even so, since we have already driven all the way up here to paraglide, we just went ahead with it!

Jiufen

Headed over to jiufen after, the location where spirited away was based on! :-)
We had lunch here and stayed for around 2-3h, and there were many souvenir shops here -- definitely a good place to buy stuff! :-)

Ice cream popiah

rly nice view from the top

Golden Waterfall

Our driver then drove us down to the golden waterfall which was just nearby. TBH, it was quite underwhelming but it's still really amazing how the colour is so different.

Yin Yang River

The road led us to the yin yang river, where the colour of the river is really unusual.

Shifen Waterfall

After that, we drove over to shifen asap as it was getting quite late.

Shifen waterfall

Shifen

This was the best part of our trip :-) We walked over to 'fang tian deng', which is to set sky lanterns! :-)) Like the place in the really popular movie -- You are the Apple of my Eye.

There were many varieties of sky lanterns, and the different colours have different meanings

And we just had to hog the railway to take photos :')

Qi

Dong

Qing

HAHAHAH GUYS PLZ

Ali

Had to leave after a short while as we were going to overshoot the time we hired the driver :-(( But he was really nice not to charge us for the extra 1/2h although it was really our fault. :-)
He even drove us to the hostel to put down our stuff first before driving us to the nearby night market. So nice!!! :-))))

Anyway so this concludes day 3 of TaiBBBabes, finally.

Tingz

{A photodiary} Taiwan D2: Taichung

Time for D2 of Taiwan

Sleepy journey to Taichung on the HSR cause we all didn't sleep enough plus we were all quite tired :< Service was q bad imo cause it was slow? Although we had 6 people but they gave us a trainee which technically made us miss 2 HSR trains what the :<

got yoghurt for mah tummeh <3

HSR station

Lai Lai Dou Jiang

Got picked up by our driver at Taichung HSR and we headed to lailai soya bean for dou jiang! (they call dou hua shui (soyabean drink) dou jiang in tw) Didnt't get to try the salty flavoured one sobz but I actually like the burnt taste of the dou jiang! YUMZ. Ordered alot of food to share too to MAXIMISE our tasting :>

Lavander Cottage
Drove over to Lavender Cottage after which was CRAZY FAR actually. It took about an hour's ride all the way to the hill? It's in a really secluded place so it's mandatory to get a driver to drive you inside as apparently there was no buses which enters the place. There were also many bends on the hill road so it was q dangerous but really interesting. 

Lavender Cottage entrance fee: 100TWD

BUT 100TWD voucher given to you to buy stuff from the cottage's gift shop. 

We look like a happy family LOL

The ticket

Saw this rly huge carousel and we had to take a photo with it

<3

Chun Shui Tang

Headed back to civilisation (HAHA) and went to chun shui tang. This was where bubble tea was first created (apparently). 

Milk bun which was so-so

Their large milk tea was HUGEEEE and the pearls were really nice (albeit unhealthy)

Miyahara

Then we continued on to Miyahara which sells desserts and ice cream!

dat variety of chocolate flavours tho

Ordered the grape ice which got q gelat after a while cause it was huge, and the grapes had seeds in them (sobz) :< and the grapes they used had this different feeling to it so I actually didn't rly like it

Got another ice cream after after much consideration but NO RAGRETS.

Yi Fu Tang
Went on to Yi Fu Tang to buy their tai yang bing and huang li su :> rly liked it as they had a few flavours but original is still the best!

Yi Fu Tang outlet

Feng Jia Night Market

We were in a huge rush after that as we only had 45 min to conquer Feng Jia Night Market, so we actually split up and walked along the night market. Whatever we wanted to eat we just ordered it for takeaway asap so that we could eat on the HSR back to taipei.

fried soft shell crab and its rly rly gud haha

Hauls from 45 min of fengjia

Rushed back to HSR in time!!

Advice is not to spend only 45 min in fengjia because there were TONS OF STUFF TO LOOK AT and rly loads and loads of food HAHA.

We looked crazy eating on the HSR cause we were all so so hungry HAHAHA BUT FOOD WAS RLY GUD SO NO COMPLAINTS :>

Luv,
Tingz :>