Taiwan Exchange Trip Part 9.2

Took the night train to 台东 to look for our friends on the 2nd night!

We had initiatally rented a big car to bring us around on the 3rd day. However, it just kept pouring throughout the whole day and our plans were disrupted!! I thought it was really a pity that we couldn visit many places in 台东!

Therefore, we stayed in my friend's home and experience the life of a farmer! We accompany his grandmother to the sugarcane plantations!

We worked really hard and we got our hands dirty!

And finally, we tasted the sweet sugarcane juice. It was the first time my korean friend drank sugarcane juice!!!! He thinks that it's nice too! He should pay a visit to Singapore. We have sugarcane juice EVERYWHERE!!!

I talked to my friend's Ah Gong while the others continued to work hard. I love talking to the elderly and listen to their life stories. It was also a good time to polish up my Hokkien too!!

After working hard in the afternoon, my friend's grandparents cooked a spread for us!!!

It had been a long time since we all had home cooked food!!

A group photo with Ah Gong and Ah Ma.

Woke up at 6am in the morning the next day because we wanted to make use of the time to visit other places in the southern part of Taiwan! It was so nice of Ah Ma to make us breakfast before we left and Ah Gong for sending us to the bus station despite it being really early!!!

Ah Gong and Ah Ma are really really nice people!!!

Took a train and head to Kao Hsiung. We bought a train ticket which cost us only 599NT and we are able to take all the trains for unlimited times over a period of 5 days. However, we do not have any seats and we can only sit on the seats if there are available ones.

That is why we are in such a pitiful state!! 

Finally, we reached KaoHisung!!

Ate the famous beef noodles!!!

Decided to visit a carnival that was near a temple because we had nothing else to do!!!



Headed back to HsinChu after our tiring tour.

We practically toured the whole Taiwan island~~!!!! HAHAHAHAH.

This is the last part of Taiwan Exchange Trip Part 9!!

Updates soon~!!!

Taiwan Exchange Trip part 9.1

On the second day of our tour, we woke up at around 9.30am even though we had earlier planned to wake up at around 8am in the morning! Hahhaa.

Went to fill our stomachs.

I think we must be crazy because we wore our pyjamas out for breakfast!! Hahah. We did not dress up!

Went to 公正包子 for it's 小笼包 again!!! HAHHAA.

OMG!!!!

THE BUNS ARE SO FREAKING DELICIOUS!!!!!

And we had to pose with the store to show how much we love the buns.

Went to have the famous　排骨面　too!!

We wanted to visit the Taroko National Park (太魯閣國家公園 ) at first but we were told that there was a landslide and several parts of the park was closed!!! Darn!!!

Taroko National Park (Chinese: 太魯閣國家公園; pinyin: Tàilǔgé gúojiā gōngyuán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Taroko kok-ka kong-hn̂g) is one of the seven national parks in Taiwan and was named after the Taroko Gorge, the landmark gorge of the park. The park spans Taichung City, Nantou County, and Hualien County. 

The park was originally established as the Tsugitaka-Taroko National Park (次高タロコ国立公園 Tsugitaka Taroko kokuritsu kōen) by the Governor-General of Taiwan on December 12, 1937 when Taiwan was part of the Empire of Japan. After the Empire of Japan's defeat in World War II, the Republic of China assumed control of Taiwan. The ROC government subsequently abolished the park on August 15, 1945. It was not until November 28, 1986 that the park was reestablished.

It was a pity that we couldn pay a visit to the Taroko National Park!!!!

We missed such picturesque scenary!!!!!

(Photos from Google)

We decided to head to a farm instead. HAHAHA.

The farm was really boring and I didn bother to take any photos!!!!

There was this orchard which was supposed to be opened to the public but it was closed that day. Refusing to obey with the rules, we decided to barge into the orchard!!! Hahha.

We acted that we didn understood Chinese~~!!! HAHHA.

Hanki went plucking a lime in the orchard after he had lost the game of sissors paper stone!

The game of sissors paper stone was so funny and lame!!! Please take a look at this video!!!! We played the game to decide who will give the lime a try!!!!! HAHAHA.

We didn cause any damage to the orchard and it was purely fun that we decided to barge into the orchard. Please forgive us!!! Hahaha.

Anyway, we were told to leave barely a few minutes after we entered the orchard. HAHHAA.

Last photo for the entry!!! My friend went feeding the deers and rabbits with the lime that we stole from the orchard!!!!!

I was feeding them leaves~!!



Enjoying in the farm~~!!! HAHAHAHA.

The farm was really boring but I am glad that we made it fun!!!

Updates soon!