Taiwan Things to Do

No matter it's chilly or hot, you should takea hot spring bath to experience the unique gift that god gave Taiwanese. In this picture I was at Gugang (in the center of Taichung), and luckily I could took a nice view with clouds around the mountain coz the weather is not good. sometimes bad weather is nice for people who just head for hot spring, as the lower the temperature, and more comfortable you soak in it.
You may take hot spring no matter you're in North, Middle or South even East Taiwan.

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My favorite hobby is to go bike riding around Taichung. Actually it's the most popular activity in Taiwan. The trend has lasted for these few years and it apparently becomes someones' habbit in their lives. Living in Taichung is so joyful coz there are a lot of montains that I could explore with my buddy. Now the plan "go biking around the island" has been achieved more and more times by people who really enjoy this beautiful island. It's not a big news any more!!

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Visit Taroko, take a slow train there and enjoy the scenes as the train chugs along, remember your starbucks and da bao zi (big meat buns). At Taroko, book a taxi tour (NT2000 - rate @ 2006) and keep your own time. You must do homework and know in advance what you want to do, discuss with the driver so he can schedule as well.

If you go to Alishan, goto Fencihu and try the Ah Lang train box lunch. Its near to the Fencihu train station, ask for directions, the people are friendly to point you to the place. You can buy the round tin souvenior lunch box from Ah Lang - quite cool but ex.

If you go to Tamshui, you must try the baozi (meat bun) and fishball soup just to the left-ear direction of Mr Leslie Mackay's head statue. Sorry no offense to fans of Mr. Leslie Mackay but that's as much as i can recall about the location of the shop and i forgot to note the shop's name as well. Thing is, its just baozi and fishball but like that Stephen Chow movie "Eat God", eating a simple bowl of cha siew rice also can cry, excuse my Singlish. Its really delicious, at the first bite i felt like my face lit up and my eyes just shone, strange i only had one. Oh yea, it was gone before i could get to them.

That's it, cheers for bearing with me.

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This is not just a temple that put many statues of Budda, but a great place full of art craft. ChunTai is famous for its scenery view sourrouded by the mountains and the great buildings which spent thousands of million dollars.
According to the second picture, there are 4 great pillars supporting the hall. These 4 great pillars prsents 4 different Generals protecting the Budda.

Taipei building is avery important place to visit while you are in taiwan,it`s 101 floors ,the highest building in the world when you look at the world from the 101 floor ,you can see most of taiwan and you feel like if the sky is close to you but i don`t advice you to look down because it`s very scary!

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These are the pictures of the surroundings of the farm at an alititude of more than 3000m high. Weather is cool throughout the year. Nothing much here. But i do advice traveller to come themselves and find accomodations. there are many homestays and local accomodations which can offer better and memorable experience than those recognised hotels. There are not many established hotels in Ching Jing Veteran Farm county. Try to avoid coming here on weekends or public holidays as prices will sky-rocket twice to triple the normal price. Arriving on normal weekdays is fine and you can have the luxury to bargain for the rooms rates on weekdays.

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More pictures of the Ching Jing Veteran Farm.

Many people and tourist actually mistaken Ching Jing Veteran Farm for being a place with many farms. But in reality, the name Ching Jing Veteran farm is actually the name of the county. Though there is a farm called Ching Jing Farm.

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This is the view of the Ching Jing Veteran Farm with its surround view. 2 hours will be enough to visit to this farm. Relaxing in the farm with views of nearby mountains mostly above 3000m high with the sheeps roaming around and the greenery, is the best one can ask for.