Day 3 - Dong Pu to Kaohsiung

We started off this bright and sunny morning to Peacock Garden (孔雀园), there kept a breed of Taiwan National Treasure (蓝孔雀)... we also saw a very outstanding white one...

Next, we went over this famous Wen Wu Temple (文武庙) for prayers... People pray the Civil Saint of Confucius, the Military Saint of Guangong, and the Established God of two temples at the Wenwu Temple. The temple is popular among students.

The temple had been rebuilt and renovated due to the 921 earthquake that hit them in Year 1999... Mummy let me pray in the temple to for good studies

There are also wishing card in the temple for people to write down their wish and hang it up... Mummy took one for me and I wish good health and happiness in my family...

While waiting for the coach to fetch us, we crossed over the road to the opposite side of the temple and bought some Tea Egg and Taiwan Sauage... the Tea Egg are cooked with Mushroom and Lingzhi while the special Taiwan sauage is made from Black Wild Boar's meat... after that, we had lunch nearby...

After lunch, the tour guide asked if we would like to hire a yacht to take us round Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) to enjoy the scenery... wanting to give it a try, we opt for this optional tour...

As this is a private hired yacht, only people in our tour group are in the yacht...

Most of us are busy taking pictures and enjoying the sea breeze...



It was a nice experience and everyone enjoyed a lot...



Then, we visited a Aboriginal Products Shop where they promote their Royal Jelly, Wild Honey, Lingzhi Tablets, etc... but we did not buy anything from there as it is too expensive... Mummy wanted to buy the wild Honey for me but the price is almost the same as the Manuka Honey that I am taking in Singapore...

After that, we visited a Tea Garden where Mummy bought Oolong Tea for Pak pak...

The tour guide rewarded us for our punctuality by bringing us to a shopping mall called Dream Mall (夢時代購物中心)... The rooftop amusement park at Dream Mall is the home of the Kaohsiung Eye (高雄之眼) Ferris wheel.. we did not go up to the ferris wheel as there is not much time so we spend the time shopping around the mall...

Finally, we checked into the hotel for tonight... did a bit of wash up and met up to Leo Ho Night Market (六合夜市).. famous for its various choices of food and local dishes...

We sort of had our dinner at the night market buying bits of here and there to eat... Before going back to the hotel to rest... Mummy bought me an ice cream and let me play games at their game stalls while Ah ma and Ah gu went to see beauty products...

Some updates of my sister, Kloey in Singapore:

Daddy met up with Mama and Sharon gugu to go shopping at Tanjong Katong as Sharon gugu wanted to buy some rice dumpling for the coming festival... after that, they went shopping at Centrepoint Robinson and Sharon gugu bought 2 new toys for Kloey...

 

Day 2 - Taoyuan to Dong Pu

 We checked out from the hotel early in the morning and began our "hotel changing" days...

The local tour agent got us a nice and comfy coach to transport us from place to place...

Our first stop, Sun & Green Farm (向日农场), there grows a lot of sunflowers... as the season is not right, we did not manage to see any lavenders...

We were given some time to walk around the farm... taking the foot path to view the flowers... and posing for picture with the nice sunflower back ground...

After getting some souveniors from the farm, we moved on to the next stop... Beipu Hakka Village (北埔客家村), there sell a lot of Hakka Delight and we had their famous 面條 for lunch...

As there is still time, we went into a Family Mart for coffee and Tea Egg (茶叶蛋) to hid ourselve from the sorching sun...

Next, we drove for a few hours and came to Ton Po Bridge (东埔吊桥)... its the highest and longest bridge in Taiwan... the tour guide let us get down the coach to take some pictures... although there is a slight drizzle, we still manage to capture some moments and walk across the bridge to the coach...

 

We will be staying over at TonPo Hot Spring Hotel tonight... After our dinner, we watch an Aboriginal Dancing Show presented by the hotel...

* Mummy and me helping out with the musical instruments *

* Photo taken with the little dancer, she is of the same age as me *

After the dance, we were invited for dumpling soup (汤圆) and I even got the chance to roll my own dumplings as well as for the others... nice experience!

Mummy and I showered using the bath tub as the water that runs in is Hot Spring Water while the others visited the public Hot Spring within the hotel...

Day 1 - Singapore to Taoyuan

This post marked Mummy's and my journey to Taiwan... we woke up early this morning to meet up with Ah ma, Ah gu, Gina lao yi, Ren Ee ah gu and Jaslyn yiyi to the airport... Ah ma had booked a van to accommodate all of us... We reached the airport quite early and Mummy had helped everyone to check in via internet so we just need to check in our luggages...

After our flight of almost 8 hours, we reached Taoyuan International Airport... As we had a transit in Hongkong hence lengthen our travelling time... we were being picked up and checked into the hotel for the 1st night... After washing up, we took a taxi to the nearest shopping mall for dinner and shopping spree...

Pre-Holiday Mood

Mummy had most or less done with packing our luggage... Tomorrow, Mummy will be bringing me to Taiwan for 9 days... joining a package tour for the first 7 days and extending another 2 more days in Taipei... Daddy will be taking leave to take care of Kloey next week as Aunty Nora is also going on home leave starting this Saturday...

In order to keep me occupied during the bus journey from place to place in Taiwan... Mummy bought me another Leap pad cartridge to bring along...

Parts of a Car

I brought home my artwork for the week... its a chart with name of parts of a car... I am able to name and read out the different part of the car... This is our project for the transportation theme... Our school even brought us to the car park to look at different car and Teacher Irene also borrowed her car for the children to sit in and explore...

BBQ

We are going to Uncle Chris's house to BBQ again... before going, we went to shop around at West Mall... and Mummy would also like to get something from Watson's...

A lot of relative turned up for the BBQ tonight... and we managed to finished up all the food that Uncle Chris and family prepared... Daddy also bought some fruits earlier from West Mall for everyone...

This time round, Uncle Chris also booked the function room for us to catch up after the BBQ... Coincidentally, its also Yi Po's birthday, so Candy biao gu bought a cake and celebrated Yi Po's birthday...

Early Father's Day

Daddy need to work today... so Mummy left Kloey with Aunty Nora and brought me to Jurong Point to watch "Madagascar 3"... after the movie, Daddy knocked off work and meet up with us at Jurong Point for lunch... Mummy give an early Father's day treat to Daddy as we will not be around to celebrate with him on the actual day...

We returned back home to fetch Kloey and rested before going down to Ah ma's house for dinner... Gina lao yi is cooking Nasi Lemak tonight...

Mummy had secretly asked Noel ah yi to buy a cake for Daddy to celebrate Father's day too... so after our dinner, we surprised Daddy with the Strawberry cake that he had wanted to eat...

Happy Father's Day to my dearest Daddy!!