after the visit to chi kan lou, we went on to another famous temple... however, it was closed by the time we reached there... we din realised that the site-seeing areas closed at 5pm... so end up we just stopped and went to xin guang san yue, something like taka in singapore but much bigger... :) nothing for us to buy except for local delights! and donuts! hehe...
nice looking tree... :) very artistic...
part of our dinner... it is called guan cai ban aka coffin... haha... it tasted like chicken pie! :P damn yummy!!!
yummy donuts! :)
the next day was a long journey to sun moon lake... we have to take a train to this place called jiji, the oldest train station in taiwan and take bus to this place near sun moon lake and then figure out how to travel up the lake... haha, the lake is up within the mountains! hee...
we had brunch at this train station b4 going to ji ji...
hehe... *yum yum* :)
however, when we reached ji ji, it started raining damn heavily! we are stuck there! we could not find the visitor information centre and ended up seeking refuge in the police station while waiting for transport from the hostel to come fetch us! haha... the police officers are damn friendly! haha... they even offered us mineral water, as in they specially opened a carton of it for us! we were damn touched!
on the way up to the mountains, the winding roads were even worse then the ones in genting! it was really scary! the driving skills of the driver is really very gd! instead of watching on, many of us chose to take a nap on the way up...
when we reached the hostel, we were pleasently surprised by the layout of the room! damn chio! haha... so homely! then we had a tea session with the lady owner, she was very nice! and taught us a lot about tea! it turned out that she actually owns a tea plantation! we actually wanted to go visit as part of our day tour the next day, but it was too far away... sigh... it would b a pretty sight!
after the chat, we decided to go look at the dance performance put up by the yuan zhi ming residing there... but due to some technical fault, they were unable to go on with the performance, thus asking us to come back the next day... we were disappointed, so decided to have early dinner... :)
in view of such nice scenery, we can't help ourselves but to do some "cute" poses! hahaha....
haha... we are damn bo liao! haha...
our dinner! this is only part of it!! haha... we were too hungry that we started digging in after this few dishes were placed at out table... :) it was very delicious and fresh! haha...
in the midst thr our dinner, flying inserts, regardless of size start to invade our dishes! they keep dropping down! some of us were quite freaked out... this happens cos it had been raining and they were all attracted by the lights... the owners recommended us to take the outside seats, at least we wun have this problem outside... so we gladly changed our tables! :)
then somehow the attention of the conversation became on me... i was so like.. what's with me? like that also can... one bunch of kapo ppl.. haha...
the nite ended with some shopping, watching tv and playing bridge! :)
to be continued...
