Travel: Taiwan - Taipei

[Cool1]

To those planning a trip to taiwan, try to spend more days in the east and central parts of Taiwan - JiuFen/JinGuaShi, Yilan, Hualian(HeHuanShan/Taroko Gorge/East Rift Valley/Hualien Coast), Taitung, CingJing, Alishan, Xitou, etc. Very beautiful. FYI.

[Blessed Homemaker]

That's the reason why I break up our trip. We will travel from Taoyuan airport to Taichung, stay one night before heading to Cingjing the next morning.


Airport - Taichung is approx. 2 hours
Taichung -Cingjing is slightly under 2 hours
Taipei - Cingjing is under 5 hours

jessielu:

2am:

hello jessielu,

I m going to use public transport. It will be just 3 of us so I think should be manageable and more economical to go by train. Taxi sound very expensive.

To cingjing is 4hours... this is the part i m worried about. How to get there and back to airport.

Cinjing is indeed far away from airport, we are exhausted by sitting the van. Fyi, travelling up the mountain need 1 hr & if got car sick, feel even worse! The rd are really steep and winding, don't think would want to go up again.

[jessielu]

The journey up the hill is nightmare to me, 1hr up the winding rd and 1hr down, turning up the butterfly in stomach

[Blessed Homemaker]

Did your driver drive very fast? My cabbie says it will take approx. 110mins from Taichung to CJ.


My gf who drove up on their own says the road is winding but still bearable.

[jessielu]

Not fast but maybe we are not used to the winding of road

[jessielu]

sg.angel:

Thanks. I only plan to go Xiao Ren Guo. Do you have this?


Also, any coupon to museum?

Yes, inside have the xiao ren guo ticket, buy 1 free 1. U not gg leofoo?

[princesskaris]

hi i emailed taiwan visitor association and i was told they no longer do mailing for freebies and I have to go down to their office to get the brochures and freebies instead. Just wondering if the freebies are worth the trip? Can those who receive the freebies share the contents? TIA. I'm actually looking at the xiao ren guo's vouchers.


Counting down to our Taiwan trip in November.. so looking forward.

[princesskaris]

Oh yes and just to share, I eventually hired a driver to drive us to the flying cow ranch from taipei and finally decided to stay there for a night as well. According to the website, there seem to be many activites to do at the ranch and I don’t think there is enough time for all the activities if I were to return back to Taipei on the same day.

[Blessed Homemaker]

You may check out their freebie here


http://welcome2taiwan.net/tw/news127.html

Free theme park ticket was for last quarter.

第三季  伴手禮：農特產品券
使用期限:  2012年7月1日~2013年2月28日
兌換地點：松山機場、 桃園國際機場 、臺中 、高雄小港機場的「昇恆昌」和「采盟」免稅店  (票券上有兌換點說明及位置圖)兌換時請出示護照，本優惠限定外籍旅客，不包括台灣籍遊客。

princesskaris:

hi i emailed taiwan visitor association and i was told they no longer do mailing for freebies and I have to go down to their office to get the brochures and freebies instead. Just wondering if the freebies are worth the trip? Can those who receive the freebies share the contents? TIA. I'm actually looking at the xiao ren guo's vouchers.

Counting down to our Taiwan trip in November.. so looking forward.

[New HPPS Mum]

Hi princesskaris,


The freebies is a booklet of Amusement Park Tickets which include "Window On China Theme Park（小人国主题乐园）Buy 1 Get 1 Free.