alishan- more sightseeing 奋起湖

The cab driver pick up as after Alishan recreational Area.

Lunch at a restaurant recommended by the minsu owner. Love the soup

Fen qi hu 奋起湖

Lots of interesting food and snacks to try out. It is just a short stretch of road.

food and snacks
There are tea, century eggs, sausages  and wasabi and lot of black sugar products. Only manage to try out a few items because lunch was too heavy

愛玉

Quite famous. found this online and check with the minsu owener where to locate it.

Inside has mushrooms, shrimps and meat.

Try it :D

街仔尾阿嬤草仔粿








黑糖蒟蒻涼糕

Black sugar Muah Chee

Not too sweet, not too chewy.

I like it

recommended by 食尚玩家

豆干堡
it has spring onions, vegetables, pork bloss and the beancurd has been braised. quite interesting and good

 Some of the pretty sights

奋起湖老火车站

星空xin kong

星空xin kong

奮起湖便當

Famous lunch boxes. There are a lot of variations. One from the train station, one from hotel and one recommended by the taxi driver.We bought 3 different ones to try it out. The minsu owner offered to heat it up for us. T

Alishan 阿里山 sightseeing

Flowers

 After the sunrise, was feeling very cold and hungry.  found a small which was not touristy and had a simple taiwanese breakfast.









The cab drive and minsu owner gave us specific instructions to where to buy tickets and sightsee after the sunrise.
Alishan forest Recreational area.

阿里山森林遊樂區

The weather was quite good. Is good to get away from the city and take a stroll and enjoy the fresh air.

some of the interesting tree formations. There are more...

Barbecue pork. Taste nice.

Money!! Wishing well.. 

Tree pagoda spirit  阿里山神木

commemoration stamp at the information counter. 

Take a brochure and stamp it yourself.

good as a souvenir.

Taiwan free and easy : Alishan

Visited Taiwan last year 2011/2012, was in Taiwan for new year..

We actually went Taichung to stay for a night before taking the train to Chaiyi.

It is cheaper to book the tickets in advance as it will be much cheaper.

http://www.thsrc.com.tw/en/ticket/tic_how_online.asp

The train ride was fast and comfortable.高速铁路,

We booked a package with seasonstar,四季星空. 

http://www.seasonstar.com.tw/

3 days and 2 nights.

The package includes almost everything transport to and fro the minsu, dropping by some spots on the way up, trip to see the clouds, sunset and sunrise and some meals. The owners are very friendly and kind people.
The owner discuss our itinerary with us and also highlight when are the interesting things to look out for after dinner.

The taxi driver picked us from the Chaiyi HSR station. We manage to liaise with him because I bought a 3G sim at the airport. 

No fanciful or touristy place.

The taxi driver bought us to eat Chaiyi famous chicken rice.

Our version looks a bit bland as we don't take fried onions and it was the highlight of the  meal. However, the chicken rice was good. Nothing like singapore version of chicken rice.

Along the way, we stopped by a roadside fruit stall. We were curious as some of the fruits are not found in Singapore. We bought the yellow peach to try, the stall owner helped us to cut it up.

the fruit is creamy and sweet!

We did some sightseeing along the way to seasonstar.. 

Pretty flowers everywhere.