第二天：舜鈺商務旅館—天长地久桥 & 童子—奮起湖—阿里山香林神木—7-11

For the 2^nd day, we’re going to Alishan (阿里山). Alishan is located at Chiayi Country (嘉義縣). Before we going to Kaohsiung Train Station, we have our breakfast at 舜鈺商務旅館 with free coupon during check in. It consists of a cup of Milo, 2 set of ham on slice bread and fried egg per person.

After that, we took 8.27am 莒光号railway train from Kaohsiung Train Station (高雄火車站) to Chiayi Train Station (嘉義火車站) and arrive at 10.25am. Train ticket cost us NT$189 per person.

After we reach Chiayi Train Station, the owner of 阿里山欣欣民宿fetches us from Chiayi Train Station to their homestay. We bought the package which cost us NT$3000 per person include:

i.)Transportation:

嘉義火车站=>天長地久=>奮起湖=>阿里山=>玉山景點(鹿林神木,夫妻樹,等等景點)=>梅子酒庄=>埔里住宿(金山大饭店) =>日月潭

ii.) Our Homestay (阿里山欣欣民宿)

iii.)園區門票=>阿里山園區內的接送2次據點(電話通知即可)

iv.)玉山看日出=早餐吃到飽(中式餐點)

It’s convenient & save time if you bought the packages (Recommended).

City of Chiayi

On way to Alishan, we stop at 2 Suspension Bridge which are天長橋 & 地久橋 at about 11.30am.

Unfortunately, 天長橋 is closed. Anyway we still can walk through one of the suspension bridge which is 地久橋.

After we pass 地久橋, we see one board written “Alishan, welcoming you”.

Behind me is 天長橋

Two Guys^^

Two Girl^^

We pass by the temple (龍隱寺) just located nearby天長地久橋.

We continue our journey to Fenqihu(奮起湖) at about 12.30pm. Fenqihu is a small town along the forest railway.

Petrol station of Fenqihu..Here don’t have Shell, Petronas, BHP, Esso Mobil..

The railway station stopped working because accident happened last week where the train slipped out from railway.

Wow!!! “THE E18HTEEN” also can be found here!

Fenqihu Map

There are several old street, wooden houses selling souvenir and foods

Eating “野生爱玉”..some sort like jelly..

Fenqihu is well known for the local box lunches (奮起湖便當) which were once sold to passengers on the rail line. Each lunch box is sold NT$110 per person with the youth card (np NT$120) which consist of rice, vegetables, chicken and pork meat. We having our lunch at阿良鐵支路便當,50 meter down from old street.

Arrow represents the location of Fenqihu (奮起湖) and It looks quite small right?!… Actually Fenqihu (奮起湖) is not a lake but its shape look like lake. Therefore they called it as “hu (湖)”.

At about 2.30pm, we continued our journey to Alishan National Forest Recreation Area.

Road is curve & narrow

A lot of mountain can be seen along the way to Alishan. The scenery is superb in the mountains.

Oop..Forget to introduce…The middle one is Zing Yi’s brother. He is study at Chaiyi

Road & bridge repairing & maintenance construction board.

Main purpose is road repairing & bridge construction. It’s to make the curve road to become straighter & to prevent landslide. We were waiting about 45 minutes to pass it.

Vehicle used to fetch us wherever we went from Chiayi Train Station until Sun Moon Lake.

Snap a photo while waiting

We reached  Alishan National Forest Recreation Area (阿里山國家森林游樂區) entrance. We didn’t need to buy ticket for entrance because it was already including in our package. Normally, one person need to pay NT$100 with the youth card (np NT$150). We direct went to our homestay (欣欣民宿) to check in. After that, we went to post office of Alishan to buy stamps for purpose of posting Alishan card to our “sincerely” coursemates, friends & family.

Post office of Alishan (阿里山郵局)

Green: Outgoing & Local         Red: Airmail & Prompt Delivery

Collecting time also stated.

At about 4.11pm, we were going to walk first part of Alishan National Forest Recreation Area.

Walk route: 象鼻木→三代木→香林橋→阿里山博物館→慈雲寺→樹靈塔→香林神木→千歲檜→博愛亭→第一巨木群步道起點→阿里山神木→神木車站→吊橋→受鎮宮

Let’s start our journey to Alishan Natinaonal Forest Recreation Area.

[象鼻木] it’s actually the stump of an old cypress tree. You will notice that it resembles an elephant head, with eyes & big trunk in the right places.

[三代木] Big chunky roots lying on the ground are the real roots of the first generation tree. Old hollowed shape is second generation tree. Third generation tree is at its prime with profuse growth.

[香林橋]

Stairway toward 嘉義縣立香林國名中學

[阿里山博物館]

[嘉義縣立香林國名中學]

In front of [樹靈塔]

[樹靈塔]

Tried to touch & hug a GIANT cypress tree from far. haha…..

[阿里山香林神木]

[千歲檜]

Marvelous viewed of forest from ground. It was amazing.

STAR of the forest

Other scenery of Alishan National Forest Recreation Area

Wood-deck trail (capture from bottom)

Wood-deck trail (capture from top)

Welcome!!! Welcome!!!

[神木车站] & Alishan Forest Railway 阿里山铁路

Behind us was about 3000 years old <fall down> giant cypress tree. The journey took us about one hour walked from the beginning until the end.

Map of Alishan National Forest Recreation Area

阿里山火車站二樓觀景

At about 7.30pm, we walked around Alishan center area & finally stopped at this tea shop to buy tea. The owner of this shop told us about manufacturing of Alishan tea, how to differentiate good tea & also served Alishan tea for us.

At night, temperature of Alishan was getting cold. It was about 13 degree C & sea level about 2170 m.

After a few hours walked at Alishan center & recreation area, we visited 7-11 for our dinner..泡面！泡面！泡面！Sitting outside of 7-11 having our dinner in 13 degree C cold weather. Syok! Because of the cold weather at night, the homestay lady boss borrowed us thick jumper jackets to get warm^^

Taiwan Beer (台湾啤酒)

We bought some postcard & it undergoes several processed: written, stamped, copped & finally sent the postcard to our families, friends & coursemates.

Beautiful flower saw at Alishan

I like the most this <LOVE> flower.

Day 2 complete^^