Taiwan Trip Day 3 - Part 1 Alishan 阿里山 -> Fenchihu 奮起湖 -> Chiayi 嘉義

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3rd day and last day in Alishan, I woke up at 7+am hoping for a clear sky for a nice sunrise or at least a nice sunshine and I got this in!

Beautiful rainbow that greeted me in the early morning

Grabbed my camera and start taking photos. With this, I woke up completely. Wash up.. check..pack.. trying to minimize the stuffs we need to pack into our luggage since we gonna check out in a few hours time. We headed back to the Alishan national forest recreational park (阿里山森林遊樂區) once again.

It is AMAZINGLY quiet when we reach at 8.30am/9am. Birds chirpings... nature sound... although it was quickly takeover by footsteps in a few minutes time.





After taking a few more shots that we wanted, we took a detour and walked out of the forest where the trail lead us to the somewhere near to railway station.




And it was time to go back to the hotel...
Pretty flowers and leaves on the way to the hotel.




And back in hotel... 

relax... 

wait... 

checkout... 

Back to the main tourist area, we waited for our driver.

Alishan hotel information board

 Alishan map information board
Goodbye to Alishan... 

On the way to Chiayi HSR via our pre-arranged transport, we stopped at Fenchihu (奮起湖). 

Fenchihu Train Station




Had the famous Railway Bento (铁路便当)!


Railyway Bento 

The railway bento consists of 10 dishes @ NTD $100 per serving. Very NICE!

After eating, we walked around for a short while...


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