Taiwan 2019 Day 5: Alishan 阿里山 // 22 Oct 2019


Good morning!!! We wanted to have a simple breakfast and the hotel staff recommended us to the nearby breakfast stall (also a stone throw away from our hotel).


Inside

Spaghetti

This was the best - 综合蛋饼

葱油饼

★★★★
嘉义豆奶摊
No. 103號, Wenhua Road, West District, Chiayi City, Taiwan 600

After breakfast, we headed back to the hotel and we found our driver waiting for us. 

The first stop he took us to 天长地久桥 - and it turns out to be 2 bridges - 天长 & 地久. Maybe because we saw the 天平桥 yesterday, these 2 bridges didn't seem very impressive to us. 


地久桥


And you need to climb the steps up to 天长桥。We didn't bother.


天长桥

Then we went back to the car and headed up to FenCiHu 奋起湖 which I would say was one of the highlights of our trip (besides Alishan). It was named as such due to the shape of the place, and not because there is a lake for you to look out for.




This is where to have the 便当.




The goal was to find this shop


Their donuts smell so so so good, even from afar. And maybe because you have to walk down a slope to get there. The queue was a little long so our very nice driver helped us to call and order and collect 30 mins later. So blessed right?!


★★★★★
百年桧木甜甜圈
Address: 604, Taiwan, Chiayi County, Zhuqi Township,
第4鄰奮起湖50之2號
Telephone: +886 5 256 1340

(Best while it is freshly bought)




It tasted like our ang ku kueh!

This view was worth it
 It gave me the feeling of Jiufen Old Street (九分老街) back in Taipei.


We love the Aiyu here!

Our lunch!!!

So yummy!




If I get the chance, I'm definitely coming back here again!!! 

And then we headed back to the car and was driven another 45 mins before we reached Alishan (but somehow the drive felt quite short). 

This is where we can catch the shuttle bus to the trails


The shuttle buses

Beginning our trail



The three generation tree

Elementary School on the highest


The museum


To commemorate the many lives lost








The first eldest tree that was struck down by lightning



After a fruitful walk (and we didn't cover all of the trails - so I would definitely love to come back), we started to head back. Even though it was just 3 plus but it was already starting to get dark. 


One last stop to drink tea before we officially headed down. 

We found the tea just okay so we didn't buy that many. 


Tea planation


Look how misty it is

And from there, it took us almost an hour and a half to get to our hotel. The driver was nice to drop us off at the hotel first, where we can drop off all our shopping items, before driving us to the dinner place. This is so that when we head back from the dinner place we wouldn't have too many things to carry. So favoured right?

We went to 真北平餐厅 for dinner. Wasn't the most impressive but we just wanted to have dinner at a good restaurant. 

This was the best dish
The soupy dish is their signature 啤酒鸭, that was not too bad too!


★★★
真北平餐厅


And after a long day, we headed back to the hotel and packed up for the next day as we will be heading back to Kaoshiung 高雄 via Tainan 台南。

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