Sun Moon Lake
This lake was totally cool. Of course, we went there like a million years ago it seems since I haven’t friggin’ updated this blog in like 20 thousand years but from what I remember, it was totally cool.
We stayed at this place called Sun Moon Lake Guesthouse. Which was kind of funny considering there was no sign for this guesthouse when we got off the bus. We had gotten the name of this guesthouse from the visitor information center in Taichung – the woman working there was totally cool and totally were helpful. Anyway, we just kept asking different people where it was and was directed to this restaurant on the bottom with a guesthouse on top. The room was really nice except for the fact that they were doing construction next door but that stopped at 5 pm.
Anyway, the super-nice guy that either owned the place or ran the place totally went out of his way to help us out and when we said we wanted to rent a scooter he walked us over to this scooter shop and we were able to rent a scooter for a reasonable rate (it went from 750 ND to 500 ND) in about 2 1/2 seconds for a day. And the lady that ran the scooter shop spoke really good English and told us that if we ever had kids that they would be really cute because they would be multi-racial. It cracks me up when people talk about stuff like that. I mean, hello, kind of personal. But personal in Asia and personal in the US are kind of different.
Rambling aside, we hopped on the scooter, grabbed a quick bagel sandwich (yes, I said bagel – and really good too! can you say yum!). Then we bopped around the lake to see all the tourist attractions. Kick ass temples, flamingo zoos, defunct butterfly sanctuaries (which was really, really sad). But I have to say, I like scooters, but I really am not the biggest fan of going around screeching corners – and highways (where you’re not really supposed to drive scooters) – don’t really like them. Oh, and the lake was amazingly gorgeous. I mean, the most beautiful blue. We didn’t want to leave.
But alas, it was Friday and the prices of hotels jack up and us, being on a budget, really couldn’t afford that. Plus, we had other things to see on this beautiful island…next stop…Puli.
Tags: RTW Trip, Taiwan
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