After lunch, we head towards Formosan Aboriginal Cultural Village (九族文化村) just a little north of Sun Moon Lake (日月潭). What to do here? Besides visit the cultural villages, you can also board cable car and play at the theme parks.
Both Formosan Aboriginal Cultural Village (FACV) and Sun Moon Lake (SML) are connected via cable cars besides the winding land route. FACV entrance fees is NT550 per person. [Alert] I just check FACV website, it's now NT700 per person. And come July 1st, it's NT780. Check with your tour guide (if you have one) the entrance charges. But I think they have a special Summer price promotion.
Cable car.
There are 2 different cable cars here. One is above which will bring you up the hill. At the top point, you can connect to SML via another cable car system. It's better to enter through here rather than enter from SML cos the cable car charges from to FACV itself is about NT300 2 ways. If you come from FACV, it's free as it is included in the entrance ticket. You'll get a UV stamp on your hand when you board from FACV and just show to the staff at SML side if you want to return to FACV.
We plan to ride the cable car uphill first, then switch cable car to SML.
At SML cable car station.
We decided to cut short our SML trip and head back to FACV instead. Plus it started to rain, not heavy though.
Colourful gondolas again.
When we were back to the hilltop of FACV, we then walk downhill and visited all the villages in a long and winding road with a rough map on our hands.
A little bit bigger than our gasing. Need to aim to the pot at a certain distance, and make it spin. Made it after a few tries.
One of the theme park views.
Indoor Theme Park
This lavender is taken just opposite the entrance of FACV which they called the place European Garden. It's the largest European themed garden in Taiwan, bigger than the Little Swiss Garden in Cingjing. It even has a train going around the garden.
A grand building in this garden.
Jason came and fetch us at around 5.45pm, 15 minutes late than the 5.30pm we agreed on, but no worries, we enjoyed our little extended time there. Now it's time to go back to Taichung and back to our earlier booked homestay. But before that, Jason brought us to eat mee suah at Taichung. Since he is from Taichung, he sure know the best place to eat. We had Pork Intestine Vermicelli (大腸麵線) which is far nicer than the A cong mien sien that we had back in Shilin Night Market. Cost NT40 only. It's always nice to eat hot soupy food in a cold weather.
After the short pre-dinner (need to stuff more food at Fengjia Night Market), Jason brought us to a street of high class restaurants in Taichung. We can't really afford that, so we just took pictures.
Toaddy.
After that, we go for a little detour. Jason brought us to a little stall in Taichung to buy the ever famous Pinang(Bettlenut) from scantly dressed Taiwanese beauties. We had a mission to secretly took her pictures from the back of the van as he buy it. Too bad there a setting issue on my camera, didn't managed to snap her photos. Didn't really see her also. Should have taken video instead.Anyway, after that we moved on to our homestay. We stayed at J&I Fengjia Mei Shu Guan(逢甲美宿館). NT1300 per room per night. Booked online through their website and were allowed to pay when we arrived. Jason is really nice and helpful when he brought us to the room. Although the building is at a backlane of another building, the security in the building is very good. We need to have a special key to open the door at the entrance and also the same key at the lift to go to our room at 3rd floor.
Interior of the room. We choose the Kitten's Secret Garden (小猫秘密花园) room. Too bad there's ugly looking repainted wall or else it would be a really nice room to stay.
Another ugly wall.
This room has a small portable dining table with 2 chairs, mini fridge with cold mineral waters in there, study table with desktop computer where we can use it for free.
Don't need to worry about lack of beauty care.
After settling down at the hostel, we went out to Fengjia Night Market - FCNM (逢甲夜市) for our dinner. Our place is quite near to FCNM but we still went the wrong way at first. It's just 5 minutes away from our hostel.
FCNM is just outside of Fenjia University. Pic above is the landmark of the university.
We started off from here. At the start of this street, opposite of each other are 2 stalls selling the same thing which is Big Saussage Wrap Small Saussage (大腸包小腸). The one on the left is more popular with longer queue. So, we join in the queue also.
This stall put the pictures of celebrities that had came and taste their food. They even have LCD tv to show the tv shows where the celebrities went there and eat their food. Well, their 大腸包小腸 is not bad. NT40 each.
Then we went to this stall which has a long queue too. Kiasuness kicks in again, so we joined in the queue. This is Japanese Fried Noodle Bun (炒麵麵包)
Moon House Shrimp Pancake (月亮蝦餅) NT40 small. Not bad.
Saw this banner. Never thought our satay is famous here also. But didn't go and buy it. Why want to come Taiwan to eat Malaysian food?
Gold Right Leg (黃金右腿) NT65
Too many food already...can't eat anymore, so we decided to get back to our hostel. Had a shower, watched tv (Kindergarten Cop) and online. Also preparing for our last day tomorrow.
That's the end of part 2 of Day 6. Final day coming up.
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