Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
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
During the planning stage of our itinerary, I did check out the accommodation prices of the Old English Manor, a Tudor-styled English mansion located in Cingjing that started receiving guests for staying in 2009. One look at the room rates
Sun Moon Lake — the largest body of water in Taiwan, a favorite spot for newlyweds (especially from Hong Kong, as driver Kong quipped) to have their wedding photography shoots done or just honeymoon away, and also a mandatory inclusion
The first three days of visitations in our Taiwan trip have been, for the most part, kid-centric: including places like Carton King, strawberry and grape picking, Miyahara Ice-Cream, Rainbow Village and Shengxing Station. As we moved to the second quarter
A visit to the grape farm wasn’t on the arranged itinerary with our driver’s company, so this was a really nice and much-appreciated bonus. I was initially worried if we’d actually have enough time for another round of fruit-picking, but
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