Preparation for Taiwan- I

Possibly in April next year or during Poly holidays! Its really difficult to coordinate between the family members for overseas trip really... we shouldnt went earlier when we were younger... so the timing will be easier to manage. now that we have all grown up, Im gonna work, Sis gonna graduate from poly and has no idea to continue pursue studies or to work and didi gonna start poly!

Anyway, its either we go during Spring or Summer la...

When going overseas, I would always check out the climate during the period Im going... the temperature and possible disasters if any...

For taiwan, I think there are earthquakes and typhoons. Typhoon usually comes during Summer between July to October... With the most occurrence in September if Ive not remembered wrongly! And, the quakes happen mostly in lower parts of Taiwan i.e. Tainan, Nantou where Cingjing Farm is at..., Hualien as well... There were a few in Taipei as wikipedia-ed

Spring time, the temperature should range from 16-22degrees celcius... Very air-conditioned like! I guess it will be quite dry... Not sure if its humid though...

Journey wise, we will be probably going Kaoshiung then Nantou then to Taipei... Initially wanted to go Hualien to view the Qixing Tan aka Yue Ya Wan after Nantou before Taipei and Taroko Gorge... But scrape that!

KAOSHIUNG

Cijin Island 

Takao Railway Museum

Liu He Night Market

NANTOU

Cingjing Farm//Green green Farm

TAIPEI

Shilin Night Market

Jiantan Station

Jiu Fen

Take TRA to Rui Fang and change to bus

Old Street

Huang Jin Waterfall

Shi Fen- Railway, Waterfall and Sky Lantern

From Rui Fang, buy ticket to travel on the train along the Pingxi Line

Sky Lantern

Shi Fen Waterfall

Ping Xi- Railway, Sky Lantern and Wish Bamboo

From Rui Fang, buy ticket to travel on the train along the Pingxi Line

Sky Lantern

Wish Bamboo

Taipei 101- Observatory: Lift travels from the ground to the 89th floor in 37 whopping seconds!

Wu Fen Pu

Recommended Food: Formosa Chang

Hou Shan Pi Station

Avoid to come on Mondays as its crowded with wholesalers and service may not be good.

Style is more of Japanese, Korean type... On par with Bugis Street. Look into those sales rack for cheap goods! Do bargain!

Rao He Night Market

Very near Wufenpu

Dan Shui- Lovers' Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf, Dansui Old Street

Lovers' Bridge

Beitou//Xin Beitou

SPA!!

Very near danshui

Thermal Valley

Xi Men Ding

Shopping Paradise! Youngsters' streets! Shops open till around 10pm. But still bustling till about 12am... Based on blogs Ive read!

Yeh Liu Geopark

Some others which are still pending if I should insert into our itinerary are:

Long Shan Temple

Wu Lai

Sun Moon Lake (Nantou)

Xiao Rui Shi Garden (Nantou)

Xiao Yeh liu (I think abit stupid to go if we are going to the yehliu geopark right...)

Yang Ming Shan

Transportation such as the flight details, how to go from Taoyuan International Airport (TIA) to the various places you wanna go... if you are going to Taipei, can purchase ticket that costs 125NT for the Kuo Kuang Bus! Its like Genting kinda coach... And its cheaper than cabbing down which may cost more than 50sgd...

For Flights, if you are going Budget... think Scoot, Jetstar read it online that those 2 are not bad! just that for Jetstar leg room space is narrower than Scoot... Pricing wise Jetstar super cheap! and you get to separate the baggage allowance for individual when booking together...

E.G.

For SIN-TPE, 5 people, you can choose 2 people to carry 15kg luggage and 3 others No Baggages.

For TPE-SIN, 5 people, you can choose 2 people to carry 20kg, 1 person to carry 15kg luggage and another one No Baggage.

For Scoot however... you cant separate the baggages thingy and its fixed at 15kg...

E.G. 

For SIN-TPE, 5 people, either everyone goes on FLY or FLYBAG.

that means, its either no checked in bags or all 5 of them has checked in bags...

For people going slightly non-budget... perhaps Eva Air? Its around 600sgd when I checked for my travelling period in March... and they do have a Hello Kitty Themed Airplane! Dont think its available in Singapore though... Only available in 3 places when I last checked...