Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
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
We said goodbye to Taichung after five days in the city and 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 according
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
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 newly weds (especially from Hong Kong, as driver Kong quipped) to have their wedding photography shoots done or just honeymoon away, and also a mandatory
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
Food next! The 13 minute drive to the Master of Mushroom saw us going uphill for a good stretch to an elevation of 500m+. Though by the time we reached the place, it was solidly during lunch hour i.e. crowded,
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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