Free & Easy Taiwan - 7D6N Part 1/3 Cingjing, Hualien, May 2023
This will be another post about Taiwan.. And Yes, i visited Taiwan again in the same year.
Let me share where we went this time .
The weather was already quite warm as it is already end of spring.. so we decided to visit the mountainous area to enjoy the cold for abit.
We played the Taiwan Lucky draw at the airport, first time winning NT5,000!
Thanks Taiwan :D
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| Taiwan Lucky draw |
We went directly to Taichung by HSR after that.
We stayed at Micro Hotel, right in the heart of Fengjia night market, one of Taichung's most famous night market!
It is really convenience, just a short walk to the night market area in Taichung~
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| The queue for a taxi is super long.. |
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| Finally reaches the hotel |
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| Hotel for 1 night |
Had this soy milk and some taiwanese 'breakfast' food for our supper !
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| Random supper place |
Day 2 - Taichung to CingJing
Day 2 morning, we had breakfast at 春水堂 which was the origin of bubble milk tea.
Also stopped by the newly open Lalaport mall as well.
We hired a driver from day 2 onwards till Taipei.
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| Breakfast! |
Next stop will be CingJing, it is about 2hours ride from Taichung city.First stop in Cingjing is Green Green Grasslands (青青草原), As soon as you step onto the Green Green Grasslands, you’ll be greeted by hundreds of sheep grazing freely on the vast pastures. You can buy a bag of sheep feed and have a fun, up-close encounter with them. |
| Entrance of GreenGreen Grassland |
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| Enjoy feeding the sheep |
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| Cute right! |
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| Great view, cooling weather! |
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| Candid |
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| Looks like somewhere in new zealand! |
After Green Green grassland and skywalk, we stopped by a random tea shop.
They offered us to try many different kind of teas, until we cannot fall asleep at night haha..
Also had Zhi char styled dinner, it tastes really nice especially under the cooling weather and after 'some exercise' walking around the grassland and skywalk.
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| Love watching the clouds go by |
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| some sheep |
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| Our zhichar style dinner |
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| Another shot of the view and scenery |
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| Visit this tea house, we get to try alot of different kinds of tea |
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| nice setting |
Checked in our minsu that night, we stayed at:
Star villa , 天星
It was really comfortable and they even have a star viewing tour/lesson held at the roof that night
We really enjoy star gazing that night!
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| Our minsu |
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| The room is huge |
We spent quite awhile at the roof top for star gazing and trying to capture some nice shots of the starts.
Was lucky for the clear sky!!
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| This is the night sky from the roof top of our minsu |
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| Nice star |
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| really enjoyed this view! |
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| You can even see the milk way |
Next morning, we went to hehuanshan and after that to hualien.
Its a long drive from Cingjing to Hualien, but the ride was very scenic so it was worth it!
Managed to capture some really nice shots on the way to Hua lien, thanks to the nice weather!
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| external view of our minsu |
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| Our pitstop |
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| This is near Hehuanshan |
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| Like this kind of peaceful view |
After HehuanShan, we reached Hualien!
It was quite a long journey but for the Scenery it is really worth it though.
We stopped for a break at the container starbucks in Hualien
STARBUCKS Hualien Shop
Address: No. 231號, Zhongshan Rd, Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan 970
Opens: 07.30am - 10pm daily
Location of our Hualien Minsu, its not super nice but at least it is comfortable and clean!
花蓮浪淘沙看海渡假民宿
Address: No. 20號, Haibin St, Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan 97048
Cost: NT2100
Link: https://www.hl-sea.com.tw/
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| Theres a mall right beside the Starbucks container |
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| We took a break here |
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| This is our minsu in Hualien, its quite big and we had the room facing the ocean! |
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| The nice view from our room ! |
That night, we visited Dongdamen night market.
It was unusually quiet and there seems to be very less tourist in this night market..
We tried some food, but overall we think it is not so local anymore, the place has also been renovated and it is really clean now. Not the typical Taiwanese night market anymore.
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| Walked to the night market |
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| The night market is quite peaceful and also clean (seems like renovated) |
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| Not many tourists here too |
We only ate the Fried Egg with Shrimp and the Rice noodle roll at the night market.
After that we went to another local restaurant for Porridge and egg soup which tastes much better i feel.
This is the end of Hualien day 4 ~ We'll start moving north tomorrow!
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| Fried egg with shrimp (Overpriced) |
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| Rice noodle roll |
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| Egg soup at another local restaurant |
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| Comforting porridge |
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| Local restaurant, quite nice though.. |
