A brand new morning in Taichung. Started my day with great breakfast.
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Bacon, potato salad, spicy fried pork , steamed fish and fried potatoes all in one platter.
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Passion fruit and some pineapples
Rainbow Village (彩虹着村)
A colourful village painted by the Rainbow Uncle who have lived there for a long time.
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He could speak Cantonese and he told me he was in Malaysia for a decade or so before. He even knows Hakka.
I bought a coaster and got Mr. Huang's autograph on the packaging.
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The rocks are not spared from his creativity
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With a 2D Uncle Rainbow
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Group photo - Ipoh group with 小陳 on my left
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Wen Wu Temple (文武廟
A temple by the Sun Moon Lake. Beautiful photos to share. Forgive me for the lack of captions. Just enjoy the pics!
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The main entrance of Wen Wu Temple
There was a Year of Steps where you can walk down and search your birthdate. The top of the steps marked 31 December.
I had to walk down 330 steps or so to reach my birthday. This is like the Taiwan version of Great Wall although I have never been there. I guess the experience should be about the same.
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Famous people in Taiwan who were born on 1 February.
An easy task to reach down another 31 steps.
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The challenge was to get back up 366 steps to 31 December. It was a terribly arduous journey back up. I took my first break in April steps and subsequently a break after each month.
My knees were shivering when we reached the top.
Sun Moon Lake (日月潭)
After the tour at Wen Wu Temple, we went for a boat ride on the largest lake in Taiwan.
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The white deer on the island.
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Just some walking distance away, we had our lunch.
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Still in Nantou County, we went to a lingzhi shop managed by the Thao tribe - we greeted them by saying "Naruwan" (那五萬) which means hello in the language of Thao tribe and gained some knowledge about the wild lingzhi.
We got to try on Thao tribe's traditional clothes after that.
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When we left, the Thao people waved goodbye to us till we were out of sight. They were very welcoming indeed.
The tribe's population has only about 300 over people now. They are more previous than pandas according to one of the Thao woman who have us an introduction of the various tribes in Taiwan.
Feng Jia Night Market (逢甲夜市)
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My opinion? I prefer the smaller sausage. The bigger sausage is further wrapped with some rice and preserved vegetables which is too filling.
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Worth trying again. The bitterness was very slight. Thanks to the honey and pineapple which helped in enhancing the flavour of the drink.
There were quite a lot to see but I only managed to buy a small bag at NTD150.
It began to drizzle by the time we almost leave.
Final night in this excellent hotel before we leave for Tainan tomorrow.
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