Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
I’d read prior to the trip that with the exception of the A-Mei Teahouse, which opens till midnight, the shops at Jiufen Old Street close at 6PM. Coupled also with the fact that most of the visitors to Jiufen are
Jiufen is that must-visit small mountain town that looks to the East China Sea, and has its roots during the gold-rush era of the 1890s. The name of the town in Chinese — 九份 — apparently comes from its origins
Our Day 08 actually goes like this: Taipei => Yehliu Geo Park => Shifen Waterfall => Shifen => Yin Yang Sea => Golden Waterfall => Jiufen. I figured that it would make more sense if I did separate notes on
We’ve had seven days of fairly good weather this trip so far, but on Day 8, it poured on the north-eastern part of Taiwan. That was a real bummer, as a good part of our itinerary on Day 8 and
Continued from the last post. The kids enjoyed Taroko Gorge… sort of and in their own way, whether it was playing catching, building rock towers, playing rock-scissors-paper games, or doing Christmas jingles! Taroko Gorge and the national park done, we
The Taroko Gorge, inside the National Park, is among the three most talked about and rated “must visits” when sightseeing in Taiwan, with the other two being Sun Moon Lake and Alishan. This trip we’ve settled for two out of
Hualien’s most famous night market — Dongdamen — was about a 6-minute drive from Chisingtan Scenic Area, and we got there pretty early at 4:45PM — just when the many stalls were setting up for the night’s business. This night
We said goodbye to Taichung after five days in the city and the Nantou region. We’re at the midpoint of our trip to Taiwan, and the next leg of our trip is to take us to Hualien — population 104,000
We were initially quite worried whether we’d find appropriate accommodation after we decided to do a night at Cingjing, so we didn’t wait to lock in a room reservation once our travel dates were confirmed. Truth to tell, there’s no
My trip highlight up Mt. Hehuan done and lunch at Inako Valley View Restaurant done, it’s the kids’ turn for this trip’s main event: a visit to Cingjing Farm. The Farm is a pretty large area — around 760 hectares
With the benefit of hindsight, while we didn’t do the crazy early ascent up Mt. Hehuan (合歡山, or Joy Mountain) for the morning sunrise — next trip maybe?! — the mid-morning drive up the mountain was actually at least as
We decided that an early morning ascent up Mt. Hehuan would be too much for the kids to handle. The drive from Cingjing to Mt. Hehuan would have taken an hour, and in order to make the sunrise timing in
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