Monday, September 19, 2016

Day 2 Taichung - Rainbow Village, Cing Jing Farm and The Old England Manor

Man.. Today was just gloomy

Day with driver

Started off the morning with super hearty breakfast.
Taiwan is famous for their Jian Bing (煎饼) which in Singaporean-can-relate-context it just taste like prata with egg and spring onion, ham and whatever that is available for the combination. Not too bad but I guess having the option of prata I would rather have that drenched with fish cali instead (see what I did there?) 
We had xiao long bao also. Not too bad but I prefer my XLB to have skin so thin that only the ultimate delicate pinch of the chopstick will be able to lift it without having the precious soup broth to be anywhere else but be gravitated at the bottom
 
We then headed to Rainbow Village. Interesting place with all the graffiti (art) drawn solely by this then soldier guy when he was the only one left in the village which later on people began to take notice and had it campaigned. Now it is a popular tourist attraction in Taichung. There is this area where souvenirs are sold and the artist was there! I think he is at his 90s already. Pretty interesting history

The sun did not stay for long.
We headed for our journey up the mountain for the farm. Gosh, barely a quarter of the journey we were stuck in a jam that lasted for 3hours /input soul leaving body emoji/ 
We had a little pit stop after 2hours, got some ice cream and took some photos. There was no rain but the dark clouds were visibly seen


Finally we reached at 3pm when we left the Rainbow Village at 11am! Guess what, the rain decides to arrive as well. It was so heavy that we could not see any scenery. Wah pianggg the rage 
We decided not the buy the admission ticket. To make the sacrifice more worth it we ate Goat Milk's ice cream in exchange for not being able to see any goat.
Nothing can stop us from taking welfie. I am glad iphone now comes with waterproof functions 

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We reach the Old England Manor which from what I know the stay and afternoon tea inside is quite pricey so usually people only come here to look at the structures of the buildings and take pictures from outside which is allowed.



Spend the evening at Fengjia night market. 
Dan huang ge never ends






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