Ni Hao Taiwan!

DAY ONE

Rooftop terrace at Taipei Hostel
Xinli shoppiing district
Red bean matcha milk tea
Unconvincing Thai food or Chinese Thai fusion
Tonghua night market - snaked in some street Xiao long bao and sliced mango mango
Taipei 101 for city panoramic night views and jade sculpture education

DAY TWO
Best coffee in Taiwan at Wilbeck near Taipei Main Station
Peace park and tai chi and reflexology
Chats with a local man
Experienced the geospear
Made a Hawaiian friend named Matt
Buffet breakfast
Elephant Mountains for Taipei city day views and surrounding hikes
Underground plaza for claw machine games, rotti with egg
Mirama Shopping Mall eat set meals
+ Ferris wheel
Shilin market with Matt for some pigs in blanket, famous sausage in a sausage, lemon tea, average green tea egg tarts, charcoal pepper corn beef bun, salty sour dough bun cooked in a 40gallon drum of charcoal, played some shooting games and rejected the prizes
Taipei main station Matt try out his Taiwanese eight wheeled skate board

Day three
Traditional Taiwanese breakfast - Chinese omelette, flat rice noodle roll, tea
Had the best pork bun ever
CKS Memorial Hall
Yong Kang - yummiest rotti with the lot, hearty beef noodle soup and dumplings, massage and cupping
Original din tai fung - truffle xlb,red bean xlb, taro buns, Taiwanese beer
Beitou abandons
Raohe market - dumplings, quail egg and prawn, Dragon fruit and mango drink, TARO EGG YOLK CUSTARD BALLS, charcoal pepper pork bun, chicken leg roll,

DAY FOUR
Soy bean restaurant - skipped as line was too long
Pork buns, dumplings and Chinese omelette for breakfast
Travel to keelung
Bus to jiufen for squid sausages, xlb, dorayaki, peanut ice cream wrap, sea snails, Taiwanese beer,iced tea,
Temple for the ghost festival - offered sweet noodles for good luck. Drums and Dragon dances, taking offerings from the dragon, walked home whilst drinking beer on the street

DAY FIVE
Hotel breakfast
Trains to hualien
Walk around the city at night
Stumbled upon a bar with some friendly people.
Celebrated by birthday there, with shots and beers

DAY SIX
Hung over but time for Taroko gorge
waiting for almost two hours getting fucked over by the bus system as the bus never came.
Offered a ride back into the city by a nice man who had been watching us. He was part of Fulon Da fang (?)
Hired a scooter
Walk to night market
Have a painful and expensive massage

DAY SEVEN
Mukumagi conservation area
walked 14kms to clear waters and giant builders. Took a dip.

DAY EIGHT
Catch the TRA to Taichung
MEET UP WITH EVE who had us driven around in her family car
Went to the old street for some famous hot soup noodles and UFOs
Delicious bao zi
See 100-200 year old temples and learn about religious customs
Had original bubble tea
Night market and shopping!
Try stinky tofu,  papaya milk,

DAY NINE
Famous wonton soup and bao zi for breakfast
Science museum and Space Journey
Healthy Hot pot for lunch!
Day market and Gudetama attempts
Sunset at the wetlands and the night scenes at the truck stop
Learning Chinese 'TOILET'
Meeting kili
Skates, beer and beats til midnight at the local park

DAY TEN
Moss burger for breakfast
On our way to the snake Kiln
arrive at Sun Moon Lake
Checked into the five star hotel that is the lalu
had a succulent Chinese meal with amazing views.
Boat rides and raps and mosquito bites
Western meals for dinner and chats until we are the last to leave
Beers and more raps in the hotel room

DAY ELEVEN
Delicious healthy breakfast at the lalu
Make our way to Yunlin to hang out with eves grandma
Afternoon nap in the sunroom
See how the bamboo is cooked
Stroll through the Forrest until it eventually starts to rain
Raps, beer and beats in the hotel room

DAY TWELVE
Sad goodbye at the train station to eve
Take a train to chiayi and a bus to alishan
After 5 hours of travel we finally get to the ancient Forrest
Clouds move swiftly through us,2300m above sea level and we get head aches as we climb. Attitude sickness
Stroll through the park faster than the locals expected
made our way to Fenchihu for a simple dinner and a good nights rest
Fell asleep to the sound of insects and the rain. Really peaceful.
Cute little windy street town. Love it there

DAY THIRTEEN
Healthy hotel breakfast
Make our way to Tainan.
Very tired at this stage so when we arrived at tainan we just walk around the city and eat.
Stayed in a really cute apartment built in the Japanese style in the 1930s. Double story with a very steep and narrow stair up to the second floor with a low ceiling. Toilet located outside of the apartment

DAY FOURTEEN
Woke up to the noise of traffic
Quick breakfast of a sweet sort of kebab and off to tainan high speed rail station for our journey back to Melbourne :)

TAIWAN IN A NUTSHELL
friendly and accomadating people
Google translate will be your friend
Endless supply of food and night markets everyday
Bubble tea, xiang long baos and bao zi
Your choice of cute and girly fashion or fake English fashion
Natural wonders
Temples everywhere, literally everywhere
History and culture stamped everywhere
Sweat rags
Air con is the saviour

Taiwan, Xie La!