taiwan day 2
our taichung airbnb location is really very good. at night no need to worry about food because once we step out of our apartment, all the street food is available. and it is the same for breakfast! from our apartment walk 1 min and will reach 逢甲路, and the whole stretch of 逢甲路 has numerous stalls selling breakfast.
the most popular one is 他给吐司, and the queue there was insane. so i went to the one with lesser people.
古莫尼 (Good Morning)!!!
i ordered a kimchi pork sandwich for myself and a ham cheese sandwich for darling. the kimchi pork sandwich tastes amazingly good!!! darling said the ham cheese sandwich is normal. oops.
so for day 2, we hired a taxi and the driver drove us to different places. he came to pick us up at 9 am and these are the places that we will be going: 彩虹眷村，新社古堡，薰衣草森林，中社花海，and finally 高美湿地. he charges us NT3500. if you want his contact let me know!
and i also need to specify that 新社古堡，薰衣草森林，中社花海 requires entrance fee. is around 100 to 300 NT. can't really remember. but the good thing about 新社古堡 and 薰衣草森林 is that part of the entrance fee can be used to purchase food/drinks.
彩虹眷村
a very small village whereby all the murals are painted by this 94 year old grandpa. normally the grandpa will be there to take pic with tourists. but he was not there when we were there. and when we reach there, there were tonnes of tourists. so we quickly went to a quiet spot, take a pic, and left. the driver said people normally spend 30 min at rainbow village. we spent 3 min.
新社古堡
we love this place! we redeemed our hot drinks (darling ordered honey tea and i ordered cappucino) using the entrance fee. the cappucino taste really good! probably because drinking a hot drink in cold weather makes the cappucino taste exceptionally better.
after 新社古堡 our driver drove us to a mushroom farm to let us see how mushrooms are being grown (FOC). darling bought some mushrooms and mushroom tidbits for her family. the mushroom tidbits taste surprisingly good. even the niece likes it. hahahaha.
薰衣草森林
didnt really see that much lavendar (maybe it is not the season yet). the lavendar ice cream is good. must go try. darling ate the ice cream very happily because it was her first ice cream in 9 months. the drive up was horrendous (think genting highland).
中社花海
it's a real pity that the weather was cloudy on that day with no sun, which made the 花海 look less beautiful and spectacular.
after the 花海 it was a bit too late and we decided not to go to 高美湿地. our driver was very kind to charge us NT3000 instead of NT3500. so i gave him NT3000 and another NT200 as tips.
and so we walk around 逢甲夜市 again for dinner. and we went to the convenience stores to check out the 纯萃.
wooooo so many flavours! huat ahhhhh!
we had to eat this again. our favourite mochi wrapped with pork, at our favourite yakitori stall.
that's the end of day 2!
