Moving up the coast
So we’ve been pretty much going around the lake clockwise. So, logically, we, after we sat at Lotus Lake for wayyyyy too long trying to figure out where the heck we were going next (well, at least it was pretty there & since hardly anyone speaks English we can talk as loud as we want and nobody would know what we’re saying – bonus!)…so anyway, we decided to go to Taichung.
We took the faster train – they have 3 classes – we’d been mostly travelling in the middle one but for some reason – probably because we just kind of hand over the cash to the train people when they tell us to – anyway, it was amazing how fast it was. But not as fast the high speed train. Which we didn’t take because it’s like twice as expensive. But it’s amazing because it can cut a 5 hour journey into 1 1/2 hours. Kevin told us that it was a European track and Japanese cars because Japan got pissy when they decided to lay a European track so they bought Japanese cars. Typical. Sounds like America.
So anyway, we went and saw another couple of mongo buddhas, ate some really good department store food (they have food courts in all the department stores – but some of them are better at having pics/English subtitles) and just didn’t do a whole heck of a lot. We did find a very cool woman at the visitor’s info center that helped us find a place to stay in Sun Moon Lake, our next destination! I’m telling you, these visitor’s information people are the best here -totally helpful and so nice…but that just kind of goes for most of the people here in Taiwan…
Tags: RTW Trip, Taiwan
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