taiwan free and easyAlishan SEasonstar

Simple but delicious breakfast.

The views from our room.

The "elephant" hill

Minsu owner helped us to take a lot of photos

There is a little bamboo forest beside the minsu. Great place for photo taking.

Love my stay at seasonstar. It is a very pretty minsu with friendly owners. It is a good place to just sit back and relax and enjoy the fantastic view without feeling bored.

The minsu owner and taxi driver was not touristy at all.

The itinerary was catered to your needs and they are also friendly and ready to help out.

The food was simple but delicious.

Enjoying the scenery on the way to Chiayi Station

Taipei! here we come!

dinner time

阿里山奮起湖德銘餅店
since 1946, so bought interesting flavour to try out.
There was yam, muah chee, red bean and a lot of other flavour
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Bought some snacks back home to try.

First was the tapioca. I quite like the taste of it.

Second, 奮起湖火車餅. Good as gifts as the packaging is good. 

third, was barbecue pork.

Taking at stroll in the garden again. There are so many beautiful flowers.

We had persimmons as we requested the taxi driver to bring us to a place to buy fruits. The minsu owner volunteer to help us to cut up the fruits when we wanted to borrow a knife and do it ourselves. so nice of them.

奮起湖大飯店
奮起湖阿良鐵支路便當
奮起湖 鐵路便當

There are variation of chicken and pork and there are different side dishes. To me, 3 of them tasted good.

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.

阿里山 alishan sunrise

Woke up early to catch the sunrise. The cab driver drove us up the mountain. It took around 45 mins.
It was freezing, around 0 degree.

 We went to a corner to catch the sunrise, avoiding the large crowds.. There was only a handful of us

Took the Alisan train, 阿里山小火车 to catch the sunrise both to and fro.

Me and my sister enjoying the sunrise

seasonstar 四季星空 云海 and sunset

Finally we arrived at season star. Good first impression.

  Photos of the dining room.

 

View from the dining room..

Enjoying the home made afternoon tea which in included in the package. They have a quite selection of tea.

Enjoying the beautiful scenery while enjoying our afternoon tea.

Our triple sharing room. simple but comfortable and clean.

After tea, we took photos and relax in the beautiful garden.

 The owner drove us to catch the Beautiful 云海 and sunset.

tea plantations..

Catching the 云海, feel like we are in heaven

The breathtaking sunset.

Back home..

Steamboat Dinner, choice of beef and pork. normal and spicy base. 

It was so fulfilling and delicious..

After that, there were still yummy desserts.

all included.

end of Day 1