Taiwan Day 1 Plan

Taiwan Day 1

This is day 1. Our accommodation will be in Taichung and we are flying into Taiwan, landing in Taoyuan airport. It will be early in the morning 5:30 to 6am.

We got a car from a company Ching Bing at the airport that provides services that I can get hold of the car at 6am! The car will provides the convenient of changing shuttle from the airport and taking a HSR to Taichung and at Taichung, a cab or public transport to our accommodation. Imagine a family with luggage. A hired driver with car will cost 500NT per person per day for 8 hours. The car provides the flexibility the whole day including the evening!

After clearing immigration, the first thing is to get the car. Accordingly, they provide free GPS and a free portable Wifi router (but not sure if it comes with free data). My accommodation provides free Wifi, so not sure if data plan is needed. But I know that my teen will love to have wifi connectivity. I too and may need to call the host if I cannot find the accommodation or get lost. Well, I do not have to plan for that first and can easily get a data and call plan for 10 days package.

The first destination will be Daxi (大溪). It will be a breakfast and a driving stop. It is a small tourist town with old walls. Besides exploring the streets, what is worth is the market at Heping Old Street. A short drive away from the busting morning streets is the Chung Cheng Park (Zhongzheng Park). Link1 details and Link2 details.

Further south, is Ta Shee Blooming Oasis , 大黑松小倆口愛情故事館 or Cihu CKS Memorial Sculpture Park 慈湖紀念 雕塑公園, and 慈湖. All these are just nice scenery places for the adults.

The next place that is worth seeing is the dam at Shimen (石門水庫). Better pictures place - water, cool breeze and pics.

Well consider the kids for some activities, the next is cow ranch and fruit plucking. It can be both or either one, depending on how tired everybody is by now.

As for the kids, I have shortlisted 3 cow ranches. Going south from Daxi, the first one is 四方鮮乳牧場 in 新竹. The second is 罗爷爷牧场 at 苗栗市 and the third is 飛牛牧場 at 通霄鎮.

Which is better? See link for pics. It seems that the first and third has larger pasture and the first has an additional grass slide. Of course, the considerations is entrance fee as well as the amount of time we intent to spend feeding the cows.

Next before heading to Taichung accommodation is to pick some fresh strawberries at Dahu.

Our accommodation is a private apartment (terrace house) in the out skirt of Taichung. We will have a wash up before going somewhere nearby for our lunch. There should be some eateries nearby.

The activities for the day will commence after an afternoon nap. We will then head towards Gaomei Wetlands (高美海水浴場).  Here will will see wind farm, something not seen in Singapore. It is also a marsh land with sea creatures like crabs and sea birds.

Just after sunset for some pictures at Gaomei, we should be heading to Fengjia night market. Fengjia is the most famous night market in Taichung. This will be the first time my kids taste open air Taiwan food.

We will proceed home for a hot bath!