12 Days in Taiwan – Day 05 – The Cotswold Villa, Cingjing and Inako Valley View Restaurant

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 locked in. Truth to tell, there’s

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12 Days in Taiwan – Day 05 – Sunrise @ Cingjing

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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12 Days in Taiwan – Day 04 – Old English Manor and Spring Ground Hot Pot City (春大地火鍋城)

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

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12 Days in Taiwan – Day 04 – Xitou Nature Education Area

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

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12 Days in Taiwan – Day 03 – Grape Farm and Miyahara Ice Cream

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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12 Days in Taiwan – Day 03 – Carton King

There are apparently several places named ‘Carton King‘ on the island. It seems like a chain with several store outlets around the island. The one we visited was a 25 minute drive away and located in the Beitun District, and

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