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Taiwan Trip 2014 - Day 2 - Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) - Cingjing (清境)

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ITINERARY Day 1 :  Changi Airport > Taoyuan Airport > Sun Moon Lake  Day 2 :  Sun Moon Lake  日月潭  ( Shuishe Visitor Centre   水社旅客服務中心  >  Xuan Guang Temple   玄光寺  >  Ita Thao   伊達邵碼頭)  >  Cingjing   清境  ( Senzhilian  森之恋民宿   >  Cingjing Farm   清境農場  >  Green Green Grassland   青青草原  >  Little France  法国小镇  > Small Swiss Garden  小瑞士花園 ) Day 3 :  Cingjing >  Taroko National Park >  Hualien  Day 4 : Hualien  Day 5 :  Hualien  > Taipei ( Huaxi Night Market) Day 6 : Taipei (Jiufen >  Gongguan - Retail Outlet & Night Market) Day 7 : Taipei (Beitou > Tamsui) Day 8 : Taipei (Shinkong Mitsukoshi > Ximending > Shilin Night Market) Day 9:  Taipei > Taoyuan Airport 5.30am: The sky looks gloomy. But still we proceed to Ita Thao ferry (which is 5 min walks) hoping for a nice sunrise! 6.30am: This was the best we could capture. By almost 7am, we headed back to hotel for wash up and breakfast.

Taiwan Trip 2014 - Day 1 - Changi Airport - Taoyuan Airport - Sun Moon Lake

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Itinerary Day 1 :  Changi Airport > Taoyuan Airport 台灣桃園國際機場 > Sun Moon Lake 日月潭 (Ita Thao 伊達邵) Day 2 :  S un Moon Lake >  Cingjing   Day 3 :  Cingjing >  Taroko National Park >  Hualien  Day 4 : Hualien  Day 5 : Hualien > Taipei ( Huaxi Night Market ) Day 6 : Taipei (Jiufen >  Gongguan - Retail Outlet & Night Market) Day 7 :  Taipei (Beitou > Tamsui) Day 8 : Taipei ( Shinkong Mitsukoshi > Ximending > Shilin Night Market) Day 9:   Taipei > Taoyuan Airport After months of waiting, it's finally the day to go Taiwan! Yes!!  Arrived @ Changi Airport to check-in and was TOTALLY shocked to see a long queue.  Our flight carrier Scoot was having a major system issue and everything stalled for i-don't-know-how-long. And everything was the manual style. Queued 2 hours plus before we managed to check-in when it was supposed to be our flight departure time. Announcement was only to inform us about the technical issue and

My Wedding Anniversary

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Time flies and it's already a year ago since my wedding lunch at Pan Pacific Marina. Determine to make it memorable, we thought hard on where to go and what to do without spending too much. The best way was actually to revisit Pan Pacific for a night stay but SGD $400+ to spend a night? Hm.. We didn't think it is a cost effective way to celebrate. So we started thinking... We finally decided on Si Chuan Dou Hua @ UOB Plaza 1 - Raffles Place This is one of the few restaurant that we had in mind to held our ROM but decided against it because it's located at level 60 of UOB Plaza 1 and we were afraid that our guests might have height phobia. We got there around 11.30am, thinking we were the first customer. We were wrong. There were already other guests. Although the view was to die for, but I wasn't that fascinated because it was the food that I was really craving for. 2 mains, 5 dim sums and 1 dessert (From the first picture on the left and cloc