Yeah! I'm Home!

I'm finally home after a week long holiday living like a nomad moving in & out hostel everyday in Taiwan. It may sounds like I’m complaining about it...but "NO NO"...haha...Instead, is a start of telling all the cool stuff I did in Taiwan. (One of the best trips I’ve been)

Our trip started off with a free upgrade to business class & direct flight by Cathay Pacific due to the flight was overbooked. We had a complementary meal at the Airport from them too by accepting the offer of changing the flight.

In the flight, we met Mr. Tan - A Taiwanese who has business dealing with Proton. He was really kind to offer us a ride to our Hostel in town...Furthermore, he came back by surprise with his wife to spend us dinner at "Din Tai Fung" main branch which is well known of their "Siao long pao". He took us for a walk too after dinner..Special thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Tan of their hospitality.

Subsequent days, we met up with many other very nice people...Once at Tarako National Park, we met a university professor whom he teaches Fine Art & Photography. He was with his students on a field trip. Guess what, he was so kind that he taught us some simple trick of getting a nice photo out of our own camera...hehe...turned out good!

Then it was my local tour guide in Hualien, a Singapore blogger fren recommended her. Thumbs up to Vivian (tour guide)....I would recommend her to any of my friends if they planning to visit Hualien. Vivian is really good in explaining the history of Hualien, relating stories, took us for a free of charge cultural show; look for cheap & good food!! haha.. oya, she even picks us up from train station, took us to hotel for check in & extended her tour guide service up to 12hrs.

At Alishan, we met some exciting people with great stories too. There were two pairs of father & daughter in our sunrise seeing group.
One of the pair was Taiwanese moved to Canada more than a decade & was back in Taiwan to visit their relative. The father likes taking photographs; we were amused to see him running up & down, in & out the forest taking photos. He was so energetic.

The other pair was Taiwanese too; the father travelled more than 130 countries since his retirement. Not forgetting the 9 times experiences in South Africa & 7 times in Egypt. He was with us on top of Alishan shortly after his one month old spinal surgery. Tough guy, yet humble thou. haha...his words to us "Travel as much while u can, u will never know how much u can learn from it every time".

In general, Taiwanese are really helpful & friendly people..See how God works wonder...we get to meet so many nice people, stranger that we hardly even know them but yet they extended their help & warm welcome to us that makes our trip so memorable. It really touches our hearts & means so much to us.

I’m still waiting for my friends to give me their copies of photos so that I can post it up in this blog. We took nearly 3000 photos including video clips. Taiwan is just too beautiful...will write more when the photos available.