Taiwan Trip Day 3 & 4: 花莲, 台东, 高雄

Getting lazy to update the blog, so I'll make this brief.

Day 3:

Went to a place selling 灵芝 products that was run by 原住民, then went to 太鲁阁国家公园 and 长春祠 deep in the mountains.

Next up was 瑞惠牧场, nice place in the countryside, clean air good milk.

Lastly was 温泉 in 台东. What can I say? Lovin' it.

Day 4:

Left 台东 for a fruit stop. Fresh mangoes were in season. Not too sweet, yet so fragrant. Had lunch at 美浓客家村 which was...acceptable.

After lunch, we made our way to 佛光山, then 春秋阁, where we visited the 龙虎塔, 观音大士骑龙 and 玄天上帝神像.

The last stop was at 梦时代购物中心, which was nothing more than a ghost town shopping centre at the outskirts of 高雄. As the tour guide put it aptly, "那里的员工比顾客还多!"

Finally, we hit our first proper 夜市 of the trip: 六合夜市. So much food was ate there, so much disappointment.

Highlights: "七里香" (aka 鸡屁股), "印度拉茶" (aka Teh Tarik)

Lowlights: 排骨酥汤 (oily...and nothing else, meat was good though), 胡椒饼 (maybe it was the wrong place to buy it...not that fantastic), 鳝鱼意面 (yimian in tangy gravy with sliced eel, not that bad actually, but not as good as people make it out to be), "棺材板" (just...eh...)

Time to end it soon, got a long ride up the mountain ahead tomorrow. Itinerary has only 2 items for day 5: 日夜潭 and 逢甲夜市. This can only mean two things: there really IS nothing left to do, or there's a whole lot of travelling to do, and I don't think it's the former...