Taiwan, Illa Formosa 2013

Hi dreamers,

On August 6, 2013, my family and I finally landed at an island near Philippines. It's actually an island where more than 20 million population there and 95% of the ethnic is from Han Chinese.
After for more than 5 years, we finally grab the chance to come to the country where most of my favorite idols are there!!!

We took a night flight with China Airlines to Taipei Taoyuan International Airport and arrived exactly 5am in the morning.

The first destination is to grab a breakfast near Taoyuan International Airport. I really cannot remember what exactly the name of the places, but it's actually on a hotel. After grabbing my very first breakfast there, Felix and I went to find a convenient store to buy a phone card but I don't really understand why we cannot buy and there is something like card -idunnohowtoexplain- thus we finally cannot connect to the internet.

Arriving at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

my Brother, Felix

Taiwan in small pieces #streetphotography

Day 1:
We went to Chiang Kai Sek Memorial Hall, National Palace Museum, Martyr Shrine, Taipei 101 Shopping Mall and Shihlin Night Market.

It's super hectic and packed day for us who just landed on that island. I never expect that we would directly go on city tour. However, the view was amazing, though along the way, the tour guide will just mention amount Teressa Teng. Mygosh, It's been like a very very long time ago.
We had a really nice lunch at a Thailand Restaurant.

Inside National Palace Museum

Just below the Taipei 101 Shopping Mall

Inside Taipei 101 Shopping Mall

Damper Baby Taipei 101

The most famous Love sign beside Taipei 101

Taipei 101 from Below

Inside Taipei 101 Shopping Mall

Day 2:
We went directly in the morning to Hua Lian, in which we are going around the Formosa. I will show you the map later where I bought them at last. The journey took about 4 hours from Taipei to Hua Lian by bus with the amazing Pacific Ocean view alongside the road.

Pacific Ocean right beside me

Me in Taroko Gorges

Did you see the amazing view there?

Hua Lian is famous for its natural side whereby there are lots of national park and we went to the Ami Dance Performance in the evening,


Day 3:
Enough talking about the spectacular of Hua Lian, let's just see how amazing the Taroko National Park. It was famous for its shallow bird nest cave whereby this biggest park is for tourism purposes while to protect the habitual of the shallow bird for its reproduction. It's the most famous as Grand Canyon of Asia with the length of 19km. After being amazed, we continued our journey to one of the small city, namely Taitung and rest our tired body with hot sprint in Chiben Resort. Even in the small city, we are treated with super comfy hotel and I was sleeping comfortably.

Our hotel, Chateu De Chine Hotel

Day 4:
Early in the morning after we had our breakfast, Kaoshiung would be the next city to visit. It's the second metropolitan city in Taiwan. I really like Kaoshiung more than Taipei. The hotel was very luxurious and sadly, I didn't get a chance to go around the hotel. In the morning, we visited a National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium. The weather was very hot and grab our lunch near there. The restaurant was very crowded. At night, we have chance to go to a night market in Liu Ho Night Market and I finally found my baby milktea drink fresh from the origin, which is 50Lan (KOI in Indonesia & Singapore). The taste was incredible and I was craving for the original one now.

at National Museum of Marine & Biology

There was a wreck ship right behind me

Where am I???

Day 5:
Dolled up in very feminime way, and we went to Spring Autumn Pavillion in which there were a big dragon and tiger figures there. Beside the temple, there was a lake with lots of lotus there.
We also went to Fokuanshan where we could see the giant Buddha of 25 meter. We also went inside and I got my fortune telling there. In the evening, we went to a shopping mall with ferris wheel on top of the mall, Dream Mall but I did not find anything there. No shopping and just going around. At night we went to Shin Ku Jiang Night Market and I grab a G2000 clothes for work. The night market in Kaoshiung is very different from Taipei. It's crowded and I feel like I was in Orchad Road, Singapore for some reasons.

In front of Spring Autumn Pavillion 

Mom & Dad did a pose there, I forced them XD

At Fokuanshan

I dunno where, cos the weather was too hot, thus I just go inside and order a Starbucks

Day 6:
Feeling tired of the city again? Well, this time we went to one of the sanctuary in Taiwan, which is Alishan National Park. We had a round trip inside the forest with more than years of history. I had a chance to find out the Sister Pond, Brother Trees and Trees of Three Generations. Each of the name is the symbolize of the history behind it. The view is spectacular and the weather is a bit cool. At last, we spend the night at Chiayi.

My Family & I before entering the Alishan National Park

Super nice weather and amazing forest

Inside the Sister Pond

There was a lake there, very beautiful

Day 7:
Yay!! We finally went to Sun Moon Lake. Never thought that somewhere in the middle of the lake, there's a place where Romantic Princess was shot there. Arrghhhh. But well, the view is so amazing. We finally went to Formosan Aborigine Village & Theme Park. It's actually a theme park in the middle of the forest. We should ride a cable car to get into the theme park. Amazing. I never thought there would be a place in the middle of the forest.  I played around and super excited to see the photo taken out by Felix. He doesn't even dare to ride anything.

at Sun Moon Lake

Did you see how scary the cable car is?

We took the ride for 3 times!! Banzayy!

Mom was scary to ride the cable car while I was enjoying my ride ^^

This is the path to the ride, like a roller coaster but there was a water at the end of the ride. It splashed to us. 

Day 8:
Our trip is almost finished, we went back to Taipei. We went to Danshui Old Town to taste the unique of the architectural buildings. After that we went to Lover Bridge in Taipei where Meteor Garden took several shoots there.

At Lover Bridge, I wrote a wish there. 

Me at Lover Bridge ^^

Strolling around the Old Town and found a cute cafe, Mom took this pic cos I was cute sitting there she said.

Felix tried his skills for photography near the Danshui Old Town

Our last, this is the hotel in Taipei, our last night ^^


Cheers