Day 6-sun moon lake and taipei

Day 6

We have decided not to wake up so early for sunrise as we thought that we need to climb up to a mountain to see sunrise again. So we woke up at 8am to see the lake.

I thought that the lake will look as nice as in the postcards or the pictures from the internet. But I guessed I need a bit of luck and good techniques of taking pictures. As the lake reflection depends on the colour of the sky, so I think I have tried my best to take the pictures of the lake. Maybe I should have woke up earlier to take nicer pictures.

Then the minsu boss fetch us to the breakfast stall to have our complimentary breakfast and we had it at the visitor centre and took the taichung bus in front of the centre.  The bus tickets cost 180nt and the journey is around 2 hours.

We finally reached the taichung HSR station at 12 noon and bought the train tix that departs at 1215. There are 2 types of tickets, non reserved(自由座）and allocated seats. We chose the latter as we wanted to have a seat for 1 hour ride. The non reserved and free sitting is a bit cheaper.

Finally we reached taipei main station. Taipei main station consist of metro, HSR and TRA station, 3 in 1 stop. Then we took the metro to ximending and go straight to our hostel, good9stay. This is located at the ximending exit 6. We walked pass watson store, then hi-life(convenience stall),walked into the alley and saw the signboard. Our lunch is the ah zong mee sua and the starfruit drink.

阿宗面线

                                                                             杨桃冰

We put down our luggage in the room and went to wu fen pu(五分埔），饶河夜市. From ximending, we took the mrt to houshanpi then we walked to wu fen pu. After few hours of shopping, we walked to the night market for dinner.

                                                                陈董药墩排骨（very strong herbal soup)

                                                Famous pepper bun(胡椒饼）
I had the most expensive bbq corn at 80nt and also the ice kachang in taiwan version(雪花冰）The serving was twice more than the one served in singapore and twice cheaper. Super nice!!

Then we headed back to our hostel to rest for the day.