第三天：玉山國家公園—鹿林神木—姐妹潭—欣欣民宿—梅子酒庄—日月潭—18 degree C—85 degree C—金山大饭店

In the morning, we woke up at 4.30am. Why? To see the sunrise at Yushan(玉山). As your information, Yushan is a highest mountain in Taiwan. On the way to Yushan, we can see the beautiful scenery of the hills and mountains.

At about 5.30am, we reached the location where we can saw the marvellous view of sunrise.

We were provided with film to see the sunrise.

Snap a photo when sun is rising.

Sun is rising gradually from the mountain according to the number 1 to 9.

~山上的男人女人~

Capture photos with beautiful scenery of mountains.

We continued our journey to Yushan National Park.

Small wooden bridge just beside the Yushan National Park block

After that, we went to 鹿林神木, a 2800 years old tree. There are several monkeys around the hill too.

鹿林神木board

鹿林神木board

On the way to our homestay, we were “surrounded” by monkeys. One of the monkeys climbed up to our & sitting on our car’s widescreen. Why??? Because they are hungry … We were afraid to go down the car.

After having our breakfast, we were going to another part of Alishan National Forest Recreation Area. Along the trail to Sister Ponds, there is permeable moisture in the air coming which gives off natural aroma essences. It can effectively get rid of your tension & anxiety. Walk route: 森林浴健康步道→姊妹潭→三兄弟→阿里山大饭店

Forest-bath Health Trail Board

Starting point

Red cypress trees along the trail

Sister Ponds Board

Sister Ponds [姐妹潭]

[妹潭]

[姐潭]

Beautiful scenery of Sister Ponds

Bali got green school, here got green “booth” in Sister Ponds.

Tree Brothers Board

We’re not 3 brothers!

Snap a photo at Sister Ponds

鐵路平交路

Stand on my left side is 阿里山原著民

Photo 1: Homestay house plate          Photo 2: Decoration of entrance homestay          Photo 3: “Root” window in our room to see the view from root          Photo 4: Stair in our room          Photo 5: Captured a photo with our homestay lady boss

Small train behind us belongs to our homestay. Previously, they used it to boil water, serve tea & so on.

Captured a photo with our driver of homestay

At about 11.00am, we continued our journey to Puli (埔里). On the way to Puli, we stopped at梅子酒庄 for taking a rest. Here sold a lot of souvenir & beer.

Taiwan mountains model. You will see the light of LED when you press the button provided to knowing the mountains where they located.

Naming of toilet here also different..Never see before^^

Girl Toilet called “柔水”

Boy Toilet called “狂野”

梅子酒庄的《大头》

At about 2.30pm, we reached at 金山大饭店 to check in & quickly went toward Sun Moon Lake (日月潭). Ticket price for boat is NT$300 per person but we got the discount ticket from our hotel. The earliest boat from 水社码头 is 9.20am and the latest boat from 玄奘寺码头 back is 5pm. Every boat company has their own time schedule.

We reached水社码头 at around 3.00pm and waited for our boat to玄奘寺码头.We were only having 1 hour 30 minutes and unable to visit all the attraction places around玄奘寺码头&伊达邵码头. We only have time to buy herbal egg (茶叶蛋), food and took some photos. Besides that, weather wasn’t good on that day. There is so much fog around and we couldn’t have a clear picture of the sun moon lake.

航行路线：水社码头 →玄奘寺码头→伊达邵码头→水社码头

Why call Sun Moon Lake (日月潭)?? See the picture above & you will know the answer!

Photos taken at Sun Moon Lake

At night we were going to 18 degree C shop for eating chocolate. Wow! We saw 18 again! The different here is the chocolate are handmade.

Variety flavour of chocolate like peppermint, hazelnuts… Small piece chocolate is sold at different price: NT$45, NT$50, NT$55 and NT$60 according to flavour. It’s very expensive but taste awesome.

~Feeling Eighteen~

Handmade “18”

After that, we went to 85 degree C cakes shop. Hmm….SEDAP! A lot of delicious cakes o… after having our supper, we went back to our hotel (金山大饭店) for the next journey tomorrow.

85 degree C cake

Day 3 Complete^^