Asia,  Taiwan,  Travel

Yilan, Taroko, Hualien, Chishang, Kenting

December 21, 2018 /

Taking a long-distance bus from Taipei to Yilan, the car is very comfortable and has a lot of space. It was only when I arrived in Yilan that I realized that Jimmy's "Turn Left, Turn Right" statue is here. There are many cute and well-designed statues and buildings here, and I returned to the world in the comics. Visited Yilan Station, Diu Dang Dang Forest, Jimmy Square, and Xingfu Station. During the stroll, I ate old-fashioned chicken cakes, drank papaya milk, and ate Dacheng mutton and beef noodles. Then we visited Yilan Riverside Park.

I heard that you haven’t been to Yilan if you haven’t been to Luodong Night Market, so I took the Taiwan Railway to Luodong just to eat at the night market. The most famous ones here seem to be cake dregs and poached meat. The girl who sells cake dregs will say to every customer: "Be sure to take a small bite, it will be so hot that it will hurt for three days!" In addition to cake dregs, I also ate pork/bud vegetables, three-star green onion skewers, three-star green onion pancakes, Sister Wei's heart-wrapped stuffed sesame milk bean curd. Before leaving the next day, I ate short rib crisps and milk sticks.

  • chicken cake
  • papaya milk
  • beef noodles
  • Dregs
  • Carrot Meat/Carrot Vegetables
  • Samsung Scallion Pancake
  • Bao Xin Zhi Milk Bean Curd
  • Rib Crisp
  • Milk Stick

On the Taiwan Railway from Yilan to Hualien, I met Santa Claus who gave out candies, and the children in the car were so happy! After arriving at the train station, I deposited my bag and waited for the bus. I met a French guy who was going to Taroko Park. After resigning, he went to Japan for three months. He can also speak Japanese. He was almost in Taiwan. It's been a month. The two of us hiked together for a day, and we didn’t finish the 25 kilometers. We went to Shakatang, Buluo Bay, Yanzikou, Lushui, and Tianxiang. Go back tomorrow and continue hiking. Such a beautiful national park does not charge tickets, so conscientious. After leaving the park, I took the Taiwan Railway to Hualien. The owner of the sofa here is a Canadian Yellow Knife who works here and teaches English. He took me to eat Taiwanese stinky pot. Although the air mattress and sleeping bag in his house are very simple, he sleeps soundly.

The next morning when I entered Taroko, I met the two people who were on the same bus when I left the park last night. The home of this Taiwanese uncle who has lived in the United States for forty years is very far away from the place where I used to live. Recently, his daughter lived in the same city as me. Another sister came from Kaohsiung. She helped me arrange the rest of the itinerary around the island by car and recommended many places to me. Back in Hualien, the sofa owner took me to a small waterfall on a motorbike. It was quite cold, and he was not afraid of the cold at all. He jumped into the cold water and swam for half a day, and then took me to the beach. Went to a vegetarian restaurant for dinner. After dinner, I went to Fucho Night Market, Ziqiang Night Market and Aboriginal Street by myself. I ate mutton noodle soup and Zeng Kee mochi (taro, mung bean and peanut flavor).

Leaving Hualien, the next day I took the cute Hello Kitty Taiwan Railway to Chishang, a large rural area in Taitung. I arrived early and there were very few people, so I rented a bicycle and rode leisurely all morning. The weather is fine, the smell in the air is sweet, and my mind is filled with the notes of Jay Chou's "Rice Fragrance". Fortunately, there is not much commercialization here. Most of the tourists I met were Taiwanese, and I heard a lot of Taiwanese. The only place that is crowded with tourists is a tree named after Takeshi Kaneshiro. It is said that it was the location for EVA Air commercials, which brought a lot of economic effects to the local area. If foreign tourists don't know about this, they may think that there is a Japanese buried here!

A friend in Taipei recommended me to eat Dachi bean bag, tofu skin and soy milk. You can see a tofu factory in the backyard of the store. The so-called "bean buns" here are not the red bean paste buns referred to in the mainland, but layers of tofu skins. The rice in Chishang is particularly famous, and the rice buns in Chishang are even more famous. I went to Wutao Chi Shangfanbao and bought an eel ricebun for only 20 yuan.

  • stinky pot
  • plain noodles
  • Mung Bean Mochi
  • Taro Mochi
  • Peanut Mochi
  • bean bag
  • bean curd
  • Eel rice bun

Since Thailand, I haven’t planned my itinerary more than one day in advance, and it’s the same when I came to Taiwan. One is because the plan can’t keep up with the changes, and the other is because the locals and other travel friends I meet during the trip will always give me better advice for future travel. (The Chishang I went to today was suggested by my sister in Kaohsiung in Taroko Park yesterday), and the third is because it is the off-season now, so there is no need to make a reservation in advance.

After I came to Taiwan, I basically went to the station to buy tickets for the Taiwan Railway passenger transport before taking the train, and sometimes I could directly swipe the Easy Card. This morning, I took the Taiwan Railway from Hualien to Chishang. From there I wanted to buy a Taiwan Railway ticket to Fangliao, but was told that it was sold out and there were no standing tickets. You can only buy tickets from Chishang to Taitung and then from Taitung to Fangliao in sections. Taiwan's railway system is similar to domestic high-speed trains, and it is divided into several classes. The Taiwan Railway I took before was pretty good and comfortable, but today I bought the cheapest regular express ticket from Taitung to Fangliao. There are no fixed seats and the speed is much slower. After getting in the car, I found that it was older than the domestic green leather car: there was no station announcement at all, and I had to look at Google Maps when I was about to arrive to know when to get off; there was no air conditioner, and the windows had to be pressed hard to slide up and down; noise It’s amazing, especially when passing through a cave, I had no choice but to plug in earplugs; after dark, the train stewards need to manually turn on the lights, and all the lights flicker and flash like in ghost movies, one after another, at a certain station in the middle After the stop, all the lights were blacked out. The flight attendant came over with a flashlight. I asked him why the lights went out. He said that this train is too old. Stopping for a quarter of an hour to continue driving, and this is a routine operation; finally arrived at the station, I stood at the door, the door just couldn't be opened, and I ran to another car and it wouldn't open, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get off, so the flight attendant told me Come over and take the key to open the door manually, saying something is broken and stuck.

When we arrived at Fangliao, we had to change passenger transport to Kenting, because the Taiwan Railway did not go to Kenting. It took more than six hours to go back and forth from Chishang to Kenting. Although it was a tossing all the way, there are two advantages: First, the scenery near the sea on the road is very beautiful. Only this kind of broken car can take pictures with the windows open and the sea breeze blowing . The second is that I booked a place to stay for the night along the way, and I also checked the Taiwan Railway ticket timetable for the next few days. It is more reliable to book a little in advance. When I got off the bus, it was the space capsule hotel I booked on Kenting Street. I didn’t expect it to be better than the one in Japan: there are TVs, mirrors, clothes rails, and small fans inside. with lock. Put down your luggage and go out to visit the Kenting Night Market. It's a long street, and I feel like I can't finish it. The statue at the entrance of the Kenting Police Station is exactly the same as Uncle McDonald's, which is a bit interesting. Had crispy soup dumplings, mochi and QQ custard here.

I ate corn omelets for breakfast and strolled to the beach in Kenting, it's so beautiful here! How can it be so blue! ? The scenic spots in Kenting are not close, and the traffic is not very convenient. Fortunately, Mafengwo reported a one-day carpooling group last night. There were eight people in a car, seven from China and one from India. The driver would not re-tell her in English, so I simply translated it for her. How did I meet a newlywed couple in Xiamen who were so lucky and planned to go to Xiamen after Taiwan. We got along very well, and they recommended me a lot of places to visit in Xiamen. Today I went to Chuanfan Rock, Sand Island, Eluanbi, Maobitou Park, Houbi Lake, Longqing, the southernmost point, Baishawan, Guanshan, Hengchun Ancient City (Cape No. 7), and Chuhuo. In Longpan Park, the southernmost tip of Taiwan, the wind is so strong that it really blows me away. "Life of Pi" (Life of Pi) was filmed in Baishawan. The waves are really big. I was completely wet before the second photo was finished. I don’t remember how many times I watched the sunset after I traveled, and I never felt tired every time I watched it. I ate the novel onion ice cream in Hengchun Town, but I didn't taste the onion at all, only a few onion shreds. I also tasted a egg fruit that I had never seen before. It tasted like eating a huge egg yolk, with the texture of avocado. I also ate Sakyamuni and mung bean dishes.

  • Crispy Soup Dumplings
  • Mochi
  • QQ custard
  • Tortilla
  • Sakyamuni
  • egg fruit
  • Onion Ice Cream
  • mung bean dishes

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