Reach Taipei TaoYuan
Airport by 1.45pm
Out of gate by 2.15pm latest
1) Travel from Airport to TaiChung
Locate UBus no. 705 Stand. UBus
Ticketing counter is there.
- Shuttle
bus to THSR Taoyuan
Station
THSR Taoyuan Station - Taoyuan Airport
- Shuttle information
Ticket price: full fare NT$30, half fare NT$15.
Tickets must be purchased ahead of time for each journey.
Tickets are sold at the following
locations:
(1) Taoyuan
Airport: UBUS service counters at Arrivals Lobby of Terminals 1 and 2.
(2) THSR Taoyuan
Station: platform 1 at bus depot.
Intervals: 5 - 10 minutes intervals during peak times.
‧Service number and business
hours
Toll-free hotline: 0800-241560 (Business hours: 24HR)
Terminal 1 counter: +886-3-3834779 (Business hours: 06:00 -
24:00)
Terminal 2 counter: +886-3-3833552 (Business hours: 06:00 - 24:00)
THSR Taoyuan
Station: 0913085530. (Business hours: 07:00 - 23:45)
2) Arrive at TaoYuan
HSR
At TaoYuan HSR Station, buy ticket (from machine or from counter
is up to you).
Journey is about 40mins. NT$540
Call
王先生(0927815299)
once
HSR railway tickets are bought and inform him of time of arrival.
Enter gate with ticket and follow sign-age to South Platform (not North Platform). Go down this escalator.
There are 12 cars per train. If your seat
happen to be at Car 2,
Go to Car 2 area and wait for train.
Journey takes about 40
mins.
3) Arrive at TaiChung
HSR Staion
around 3.30 to 4pm
Meet王先生at
2樓麥當勞
Travel to Cing Jing via pre booked cab
Est arrival at Vienna
Pleasance Cottage around 5-6pm.
Day 1: Arrive at Cing Jing Part 1
4) Explore around hotel area for 1st day.
Ask about recommended evening walks.
Where to eat?
Lushan Hotspring Bus
6pm depart & 9pm back
迎曦兩人房
For 2 nights: 2/4 & 3/4
5) Explore CingJing
Day 2: Cing Jing Part 2
6) He Huan Shan 合歡山
王先生 pick us up at 8.30am
Hehuanshan (Chinese: 合歡山; pinyin: Héhuān
Shān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ha̍p-hoan-soaⁿ;
also called Joy Mountain) is a 3,416 metres (11,207 ft) high mountain in
Central Taiwan. The
peak lies on the boundaries of Nantou and Hualien
counties and is within the Taroko Gorge
National Park. Hehuanshan is a
popular destination for the local people of central Taiwan. The 3,421-metre
East Peak and 3,422-metre North Peak of Hehuanshan are actually both higher than the main
peak.
7) Green Green
Grassland (check with owner of minsu)
This wide grassy plain is the most
popular site of the Qingjing
Veterans Farm; the herds of sheep grazing on the land, the azure skies above,
and the verdant mountains in the horizon have a distinct European air. The
sheep here are very friendly; visitors usually have their pictures taken with
them. Then there is the sheep shearing show, with sheep shearers all the way
from New Zeland
hairdressing these furry farm animals for the audience’s enjoyment.
Buy your tickets to Green Green
Grassland from the owner of Vienna Pleasance Cottage.
On weekday, the owner will drive you up
the Grassland and you can walked back yourself. On weekends, you have to catch
the local bus from the Cingjing
Tourist Recreation Centre at NT15.
Day 3: Arrive
at Sun Moon Lake
Check in to
Sun Moon Lake Guesthouse．
Shuishehai Resort Hotel
日月潭水社海渡假民宿
Resort is very near to the sun moon lake
pier,
less than 1 min walk away and the tourist
information centre
is also less than 5 mins
away.
8) Explore Sun Moon Lake
§Explore
surrounding area within Minsu
§Take
Boat Ride (approx NT$300)
Boats launch from four points: Shuishe
Village, Ita Thao
Village, Xuanguang
Temple, and Chaowu (the
last for group excursions). Ticket booths are right at the piers.
Shuishe
Pier / Meihe
Garden 水社村碼頭/梅荷園 –
The pier and adjacent boardwalk are a popular night-time attraction, enhanced
with pretty lighting and featuring regular dancing-fountain shows with music.
Boardwalk shops offer alfresco seating. Above one end of the pier is Meihe
Garden, a calm European-style landscaped oasis with dark-wood latticework and
low stone walls. It too is lit up at night, adding to the waterfront’s air of
romance. Located at the foot of long-off-limits Hanbi Peninsula, this was once site of a
military-police outpost protecting Chiang Kai-shek’s villa.
Ita
Thao
Village 伊達紹村/碼頭 –
This is the main Thao-tribe
settlement. Today it is bursting with tourist-oriented gift outlets, eateries,
and places to stay. Regular Thao-theme entertainment is offered into the
evening at the attractive pier area, with its sparkling yacht-shaped visitor
center.
Xuanguang
Temple 玄光寺 –
This small temple enshrines a statue of Master Xuanzang. Almost as famous as the temple is the
rustic “Grandma’s Tea Eggs” stand just off the pier, in place over 50 years,
grandma still working. I, a stifled tea-egg aficionado with high cholesterol
counts, cheat with a vengeance here each visit. The line-ups don’t lie.
Cable-Car
Soaring (NT$300)
The
immensely popular Sun Moon Lake Ropeway (www.ropeway.com.tw), a
short boardwalk stroll from Ita Thao Village (the surround-lake bus also
stops nearby), provides a picturesque aerial ride between Sun Moon Lake and
Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village, going over two mountain passes. A combined
cable-car and cultural-village ticket brings a significant discount.
Formosan
Aboriginal Culture Village九族文化村
(www.nine.com.tw) –
This large theme park is spread over a gently sloping mountain valley. The
informative Aboriginal Villages section celebrates Taiwan’s indigenous peoples
with scores of architectural replicas, song-and-dance shows, and demos of
traditional cooking methods, weaving, pestle music, and more. There’s also a
games/rides area and landscaped European Garden area.
Nantou
bus that goes around the piers (NT$80)
Get on a bus at the center, get off at
any stop,
stay however long you like, and hop on
the next
arriving bus.
Service is 9 to 6;
a one-day unlimited ticket is just NT$80;
bicycles are allowed on board
Day 4: Leave for Taichung
Check out from日月潭水社海渡假民宿
around
12pm (depends on point 2)
à
Lunch
2) Continue with exploring Sun Moon
Lake if unable to complete itinerary from yesterday
3) Travel to Taichung
Reach
By 2-3pm (or later)
Check in
Explore area/rest
