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Map of some highlights around CityInn hotel, can grab it from their website over HERE.
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Day 4 is my favourite day out of all and also the day when we took the most photos!
Booked our day tour with Mr Lin(+886 920266276) for NT 2800 to four places. The price he quoted was the cheapest out of all and he allows me to alter the itinerary. Most of them quote me NT 3000-4500 and ask me not to visit rainbow village as it's out of the way and comment that it's not worth to visit. Mr Lin transfer us to another driver Ah Xin and only notice us the day before our tour. But overall we enjoyed our day with Ah Xin, he's not the overly chatty kind, allow us to take our time, will not rush us and he even offer to send us to the Tai yang bing stores before sending us back to the hotel. Tai yang Bing was origin from Taichung but I still prefer those from Taipei.
His contact info.
His car.
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新社古堡 Summit resort
Admission fee: NT 250 with NT 100 rebate which you can spend in the place.
Website: http://www.summit-resort.com/blog/
Overall this is a good place to take lots of photos but other than that there is nothing you can do here. Will not encourage you to eat here as it is expensive even with NT100 rebate it is not enough for us to buy a cup of drink each.
Insect repellent!!! This is really useful, we didn't get any mosquito bite that day.
Look at the fishes! They must be VERY hungry.
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Admission fee: NT 200, rebate amount of NT 200. (If I am not wrong they had revise the admission fee and it is now NT 100 instead.)
Website: http://www.lavendercottage.com.tw/
Both us love this place, find it really peaceful and relaxing. We spent an hour sitting in their cafe after lunch stoning and enjoying the breeze.
There's a lot of people who brought their dogs along. Taiwanese really love dogs, almost everywhere I go I see pet dogs with their owner!
No idea what am I doing. LOL
Forgot how much we spend for all the food, but it should be around SGD $20 per person before rebate.
Different dining areas.
There is a lot of "chop" stations for visitors!
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中社花市 Zhong she flower market
Admission fee: NT 60 (for summer season)Website: http://www.flowerjs.com.tw/main.asp
Will suggest you to visit 新社花海. Wanted to visit there but all the cab divers suggest us to visit 中社花市 instead as the flowers were not open yet @ 新社花海.
** Was told that the best season to visit all the flower place is during Late November to April.
Was told by my friend that this is the place where Jay chou did one of his music video.
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彩虹眷村 Rainbow Village
It's actually a very small area as most of the area had been tear down by the government. But we did enjoy ourself looking at the illustration around the village by rainbow grandpa (彩虹爺爺).
More details on rainbow village ---> http://taipei543.com/2013/01/30/rainbow-grandpa/
More details on rainbow village ---> http://taipei543.com/2013/01/30/rainbow-grandpa/
A picture with 彩虹爺爺 who is 80+/90+ years old!!!
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Our polaroid photos taken that day~
Other attraction places that we did not visit..
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 國立台灣美術館
Carton King 紙箱王
Sea of Flowers in Shinshe 新社花海
Sitou Monster Village 台中溪头妖怪村
Annie Garden 安妮公主花園
Moncoeur 心之芳庭
Miyahara 宮原眼科
and many more.
More reasons to visit Taichung again!!!
Anyway I had just came back from my Hongkong/ Shenzhen/ Macau trip and had updated my trip on my dayre. Check it out here--> http://dayre.me/dayre/day?pid=ezFfK93hQU
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Taiwan posts
Day 1- 13 accommodation : Spring Ground Minsu, 春大地民宿// CityInn Plus Taichung Station Branch// South Island Taipei Homestay, 南島‧嶼// Itrip Taipei Inn
**Currently reading Day 4
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