Day 8

Woke up early in the morning, anticipating for our morning outing to Sun Moon Lake 日月潭, the largest natural lake in Taiwan, Nantou 南投 (slightly towards the south of Taiwan). It was a place where 9.21 earthquake hit onto this land. =X Think no more, off we went by car. =D Uncle drove and i think i dozed off on and off in the middle of the journey. It took us about 40 mins to reach there from Taichung. The lake is well known by its' water and terrain where at the east side of the lake looks like a sun while the west side looks like a moon, thus, the name. =) A breathe-taking natural scenic park for tourists to spot on. Spectacular! The weather was cold, was about 20degree celcius, what's more, it was drizzling. Wet. =D quite like it! ^^ 3 of us shared an umbrella. O_O" Fun. Haha!

Wait no more.

Pictures! =)

The lake was covered by fog.

We had our travel pass to board onto the boat.

Streets in Nantou. 水社码头, by the pier.

Comfy cafe.
Uncle had a cuppa coffee under the tree while waiting for the boat.

me with the rocky landmark.

I love the flowers floating on the lake.
The purpose of it is to avoid the wave (caused by the ships) to hit the pier.
Lavender was on it! ^^
Wild flowers. =)

Our boat! Too bad it wasn't Titanic. Hehe!

Reached the opposite island and watched Thao tribe dance. =X

was asked to join in the fun. Those aunties *sweat* really high.

and i found out i couldn't catch with its rhythm. Opps.

Moving on.

Do u see the green floating place?

It's like a small scenic area with plants. Our 2nd stop.

Floating all the way as i stepped on the board. =X

Nonetheless, it was quite special. =D

According to the tour guide from Sun Moon Lake, this owl is good for conception and people who touched it will have twins. O_o" well, i hope not, coz i touched it. There's a Kancil on the lake.

Another story of it. Too long. =X Never mind.

Back to the boat and it's swaying. O_O" Check out the pic. Haha!

Our last pit stop was another end of the lake named 玄光寺码头where there's a temple on top of the hill. It was raining thus, we just stayed there to enjoy the temperature. Hehe! and also tried out the yummy mushroom tea egg! Eat it while it's hot! =))

Those are all mushrooms! =)

By the lake. The water... stunningly greenish blue! =D

Say byebye! =)

After Sun Moon Lake, we drove to 埔里Puli to dig in our lunch.

This cottage restaurant was searched through google last night. =D

Thought of giving it a try.

Puli is famous of their vermicelli (beehoon).

A plate of small local fried beehoon.

It wasn't small AT ALL. It's more than enough for 3-4 persons. =_="

This is 牧草笋 Forage Shoots. O_O"

A lil bit bitter but it just blended too well with pickled mustard, mushroom and some meat.

Next, another 咸猪肉 salty pork. =X

This dish quite delicious. Not really oily. One of the famous local dish here too.

TADAAAA!

This scared me.

Name: 青苔汤Moss Soup.

When i scoped it, i really can see the moss. O_O" A bit geli at first, but once i tasted a sip, hmmm... it's SOUP! Haha! =_=" Mixture of ikan bilis, garlic, spring onions. =) I think this is very healthy. Ladyboss said it's good for skin. =X

After lunch, we headed to 漆器馆

On the way, saw a lot of beautiful orchids. I think popo will love this. =)

Nah. This is the muzium of how a natural paint (lacquer) produced.

When i listened the story, hmmm, it's indeed a process which needs patience and more patience.

This is the tree that produces paint, similar as how a rubber tree produce latex. People need to cut the skin of the tree and wait for the juice to flow. The latex is normally filled up the cup but for the paint, they use big seashells. They do their work at night from 12am-6am because that's the time for good quality lacquer to be produced.

p/s: Just in case you didn't notice it, i had a lalang with me all day long when aunt plucked it out along Sun Moon Lake. Hehe! I love lalang! =D It's still with me right now. =)

Sayonara! See u on Day 9! It's coming to an end.

Day 7

Can't trust my eye that it's the 7th day for me to be in Taiwan. O_O" Time flies like a pigeon. =x Well, basically, today is my resting day, aunt and uncle's working day. Hehe. So, i got the chance to update my overdue posts. Post after post of blog made me go @_______@". Anyhow, the habit continues. =))

In the afternoon, Uncle took me to 鹿港. Another port of Taiwan back in olden days. Thus, this area has its' finest buildings with bricks and moss, together with big old trees along this ancient town. Apart from all these objects, you know what is the next attraction? It's old people. There are many old people in this small town. They sit on the chair, fanning themselves with a fan, outside their houses' corridors. The picture was... well, to be honest, it's quite pathetic. Most of the youth in Lu Kang ady shifted to urban area. Ok. Enough. Let's view some pictures to distract such feeling. =D

This is the main old street of LuKang which consists a lot of stalls, shops, temples.

A bit like Malacca. Just that, in different design. =D

The weather was good today! =) The whole area was shady.
temple.
this is the landmark of LuKang. =D
I always have hesitation in visiting temples. So, i just took a few snaps in front of it. I am not comfortable with the smell of all the joss sticks and silver papers... and those chanting music. @_@"
This is the best delicacy in LuKang 牛舌饼.
Very yummy and crispy. A few flavours for us to choose from. I had an original and a yam flavour ones. Too bad i couldn't buy it coz i think by the time it reaches Msia, it's no longer yummy. =( But! I tried that for you guys. Hehe!
O-jian. I think it's common in Msia. The difference is they fried it with lotsa veggie together. =D

Fried shrimps and mini oyster.

This one tasted delicious! =)

Especially when it's dipped into the salt & pepper 盐巴 (a famous eating-style here in Taiwan)

After eating, we walked around the old streets.

We've been to many alleys.

LuKang is also well known with the old alleys which were small and narrow. yes. =) This is one of them. Then, i bumped into this stall, which sells fish egg.

They were HUGE! Hardly swallowed my saliva as i witnessed them. They were doing sun bathing. Hehe!

Some shots of the wooden houses. =)

there were a few wooden chairs in front of the old house, wonder what's that for. I didn't sit on it. =X

Behind the tree was a wrecked house.

This 九曲巷has many many alleys and corners. =D

Again, it was narrow and small.

This small and short building attracts me. =D

Alleys. =D

The corner. =)

The bricks weren't well stacked on top of each other.

I hope it won't collapse anytime. O_O"

This explains the corridor (next pic)

there you go. =)

Later, we were back to Taichung.

Had dinner with my aunt.

鱼羹

a very fresh fried fish with mee, cooked with starch.

So, it's a bit sticky. *burp*

Looking forward to tomorrow! =D