清境农场

this will be a very himbotic post, and in chinese.

来，大家带着愉快的心情，跟我一起到埔里的必游之地 - 清境农场~

今天的天气好到没话说，蓝蓝的天，白白的云，凉凉的风，真是让人感觉心旷神怡~

(omg even i also cant stand myself)

今天我们穿的衣服是有主题的哦~

猜猜看是什么？

答对了有奖可以拿哦~

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你们看得出了吗？没有错！今天我们是跟着交通灯，你看，红黄绿，搭配蓝色的天空，是不是构成一幅美丽的色彩图案？

i think i shall stop the himboticness. haha.

清境农场 is better to go on weekdays, cos if you go on weekends, there will be lots and lots of pple, and the farm is not 清静 anymore. and because the farm is on a mountain, and the mountain road leading to the farm will have a massive traffic jam, which i think can be rather frustrating. but if you go on weekends, there will be a 绵羊秀.

ok let me show some beautiful pics of the farm:

(pe teachers also like to take jump shots. haha.)

the specialties of 清境农场 are: the sheep, the shit that comes out of the sheep, and the flies that are attracted to the shit. so its a vicious cycle. when you walk on the grasslands of the farm, be very careful not to step on the "landmines", cos the sheep shit is really everywhere.

so we must of course take pictures with the sheep. and kc took a picture of a chio bu with the sheep. woo hoo! well done lah kc. :)

because we want to be more 近距离 with the sheep, we went to buy some sheep food. and these sheep are very clever. once someone buys the food, the sheep will flock together from every direction just to eat the sheep food. its kinda scary. haha. think they are damn sick of eating the grass, infested by their shit.

and i think its super disgusting and ticklish when the sheep come and eat the food from your hand. its so wet and so yucky. eeeeee yucks!!! i immediately went to wash my hands with lots of water and soap. but its a really interesting experience. :)

after playing with the sheep, we went for lunch at a very interesting place, and their specialty is 羊奶锅. oh i forgot to introduce to you our guides. they are from 台一, and they are really very nice and hospitable. they bring us around 埔里 to quite a few nice places, and they din even charge us any money. so touched by their gestures.

the lady in yellow is called xiao ling. she is also the driver and she is damn zai at driving. one of the best lady drivers i had ever seen. haha. as for the guy his name is nian zhu, and he is the soon-to-be boss of 台一. and he is older than us by only one or two years.

the lunch was really awesome and all of us eat until super full.

清境农场 is a place that you definitely must visit if you go to 埔里.

台一休闲农场

i will like to introduce to everyone our accomodation at 埔里.

it all happened when the three of us were walking at the taiwan section of the travel fair, then we saw this lady who happened to be the manager of 台一, and she asked us to take a look at some pictures of the farm, and she say she will give us a good price if we stayed there. so we stayed there for 2 nights, and the first night she charge us NT3000, and give us a free dinner, for the second night she charge us NT2800. seems quite a good deal and we took it up immediately. and i am so glad that we did, cos we really enjoyed our stay in 台一.

so after 日月潭, our taxi driver drive us back to 台一. it was already 8 pm at night and the three of us were so hungry and we were looking forward to the dinner. upon reaching 台一, the staff ask us to put down our luggage and quickly bring us to our dining area, knowing that the 3 of us are tired and hungry like mad. and we were given a 厢房. how cool is that?

and then food came. we were all fascinated by the wonderful spread of the food. and the food is so damn delicious. we felt like royalty. :)

茭白笋

山猪肉

埔里米粉

炒虾球 (the fruit below is jambu jambu. on top of the prawn is peppermint leaf and rose petal)

鲜花手卷

菜蒲蛋

got a bowl of super nice mushroom soup but nv take pic of it. we were too engrossed in eating. haha.

so after eating, we check-in our room. the lady us that the manager wanted to wait for us, but we came too late and she have to go off to fetch her daughter from sch. oops. and the lady told us we got a very good deal, cos the price for one night is NT5000!

and when we step into our room, we were extremely delighted. the room is super nice lah.

this time round i have one double bed to myself. hahahahaha. btw at kaoshiung zhenhong slept on the single bed, while kc and i share the double bed. :p

next morning we went around to explore the whole farm. and we met the manager and did some catching up. :)

(this gigantic robot made of flowers is one of the signatures of 台一. those bulldozers and construction works are there because they are going to build a 温泉饭店 on that area. so the robot will be moved to the entrance of the farm. and then they are also going to have a macdonald and 7-11 at the entrance. everything will be completed by next year june.)


(these black swans are also another signature of 台一. they are very thrilled when they see pple and one of them came to bite my foot. nearly got scared to death.)



(in front of our "house")

for those who want to noe more about 台一, here is their official website:

http://www.taii.com.tw/

its really a nice place to nua, and kc's parents are going there in november, after seeing all the nice pictures. haha.

日月潭

日月潭 is a magnificient scenic area, and is considered as taiwan's national treasure. it is super big, and got quite a few scenic checkpoints around the lake. so if you wanna walk around the whole lake, is impossible. before the trip i thought of cycling, cos there is a bicycle shop, but thankfully i din cycle, cos some of the roads are crazy, got winding mountain roads uphill and downhill. damn dangerous and siong.

one checkpoint that you must definitely go to is 慈恩塔. the pagoda is 9 storeys high, and you must climb to the top of the pagoda to really admire the damn beautiful scenery of the lake.

ok i shall let the pictures do the description.

埔里酒厂

we left kaoshiung, and took 高铁 to 台中. initially our plan was to take a bus from 高铁台中站 to 埔里总站, then 台一农场 (our place of accomodation) will pick us up and bring us to 台一.

but when we were eating macdonald at the bus interchange, a taxi driver approached us and offered to bring us to 日月潭, because its on the way to 台一. and he charge us seven hours for NT2500. and he can also bring us to 埔里酒厂. so we decided to take up the offer, but we forgot to 杀价 with him. -.-'''

anyway when u go taiwan, if you nv plan itinery nvm, just approach any taxi driver, he will plan everything sui sui for you, including ur meals and accomodation. just that the prices a bit more ex, so up to you to choose.

ok lets get back to 埔里酒厂. its a popular tourist attraction in 南投县. and i dunno how to introduce it, so i shall use a paragraph from someone's blog as the introduction:

埔里酒廠，是到埔里旅遊時很多人都會排入的必遊景點之一

這裡不但記載了整個南投埔里製酒的發展史，在南投經歷過九二一震災之後，曾損失嚴重的埔里酒廠經過修復完善，現在也加入震災相關文物典藏展覽的功能

這裡搜羅了各式酒製產品及地方農特產想來挖寶、買伴手禮～ 來這裡就對了！

wat a good introduction. i feel that my standard of chinese is really 每况愈下.

the outside of 埔里酒厂:

inside the 酒厂, the first storey is a shop with many stalls that sell local products and souvenirs. must try their 绍兴酒香肠，绍兴酒冰淇淋，and their 草莓酒蛋糕. the 蛋糕 comes in different flavours, also have 台湾红酒，白酒蜂蜜，all very nice.

the second storey is a wine gallery exhibition hall. and there is a tunnel with all the wine vasks. very very cool.

ok that's all for 埔里酒厂. the next post is a scenery post, introducing the beautiful and magnificient scenery of 日月潭. :)