Thursday, August 23, 2012

Taiwan Day 4: Cingjing Farm (清境农场),Green Green Grassland (青青草原),Little Swiss Cottage (小瑞士花园),Carton King (纸箱王), Wu Ling (武嶺) and He Huan Shan (合歡山)

Our itinerary for today was rather packed and thus we had to leave the hotel quite early at about 8am after breakfast.

First stop was Cingjing Farm - Green Green Grassland. The weather was extremely hot and the whole place was rather crowded with a lot of group tours and students. Our driver told us that this is the most peak season in Taiwan as it was their national summer holidays and all schools are closed for 2 months!



I was feeling so warm that I could not bring myself to smile at the camera!
 


I think they are feeling the heat too!


Despite the hot weather, I still managed to ride on the little pony. Initially I was a little skeptical about doing it, but Mummy and Papa was cheering me on and kept encouraging me to try riding the pony. I was a little nervous and scared when riding the pony but luckily Mummy held me along the way and I finally was able to ride on it! Great acheivement! :)

After the sheep show and horse riding adventure, we went on to the other side of the grassland to catch some horse show. But as the weather was really too warm, we decided to skip the show and went on some photography session! The windmill decoration around the grassland really makes the whole place looked so beautiful that we could not stop taking photos. Hehehe!







After Green Green Grassland, we went on to the Little Swiss Cottage and Carton King. We spent about 3 hours there and had our lunch at MOS Burger! Little Swiss Cottage also had a variety of windmills as August is the month that they celebrate International Windmill Festival!












See how good I am in posing at camera? Hahaha! 外婆 kept commenting that I am very "Hiao"!! Hahaha!

 



We were facinated with Carton King as everything is made of PAPER! Even the restaurant serves the food in paper plates and cups! Wow! Too bad we did not have a chance to dine in the restaurant as it was very crowded when we went and so we decided to head to the nearest fast food chain for a quick lunch before we proceed to our next stop.

After lunch, we had to travel for about 1hr to get to our next destination - Wu Ling (武嶺). Basically there isn't anything much to see except some nice scenary and cool weather as the mountain is located about 3200m above sea level. Mummy had motion sickness during the journey and vomitted right after we reached. After Wu Ling, we headed off to He Huan Shan, which is about 10mins drive away. Took some photos over that and enjoyed the cold weather of 12.3degrees celcius!






Photo with my Xiaoqiang 叔叔
 

After He Huan Shan, we went back to Cingjing Farm area for our dinner before checking in to our resort for the night. Xiaoqiang 叔叔 brought us to this restaurant for dinner which was famous for their roasted chicken! Indeed, it was a very nice dinner and we really enjoyed it very much!


This is how they prepare the roasted chicken - by using the traditional way of cooking
The way to eat the chicken is to peel it yourself using hands. Because it was very hot, they even had hand gloves prepared for you!
  


After dinner, we checked into this resort for the night! It comes with two king beds and two balcony!

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