Taiwan trip-Day 2

We woke up early on 2nd day, 6.30am to rush for a day trip to Fo Guang Shan temple @Kaohsiung & Qi Jin island. Had a simple Taiwanese breakfast at the hotel before departing to Fo Guang Shan temple.

I still look sleepy, eh?

Fo Guang Shan temple @Kaohsiung

Entering the path to Buddhahood *oommpphhhh*

We need to walk through the meters long Great Path to Buddhahood before reaching the Memorial Hall. 

The world highest sitting Fo Guang Buddha (about 36 floors high) was located behind the Memorial Hall.

Let's go for photo viewing!

The superb wood carving skills（⊙ｏ⊙）

Maitreya Buddha who can talk with face expression!

April's Buddha bathing.

Sleeping Buddha made by white jade.

Jade Buddha 玉佛殿

We didn't have time to explore all the places as Memorial Hall as it is really huge.

So, if you are planning to visit the centre, please estimate spending about a half day there if you wish to walk through all the places & having lunch there of course!

Their food was super delicious! Had fried rice, fried spring roll & glutinous rice ball with ginger soup ^_^　

Next stop will be @Qi Jin Island.

The ferry that will transport us to the island.

Approaching Qijin in less than 20 minutes ride.

The famous Qijin street market  J

Taiwan's rare black sand beach

Back to Qijin street market... Had fun taking a short ride around the town & makan- makan ^_^　

Fresh seafood on sale! Rice and tea/sky juice – FOC J Not inclusive of the egg shaped ice- cream~ 

That's all for now! Next blog will be going to share our experience in Alishan!

XOXO

sassycat

Taiwan trip- Day 1

We woke up as early as 6am on Day 1 to rush for the flight to Taiwan scheduled @9am. Luckily it was not too early flight as I had sleepless night due to excitement on the night before #^.^# Arriving at KLIA and managed to camwhore abit ^^

Arriving at Taiwan, Taoyuan International Airport around 9- 10am.

We took a shuttle service to the high speed rail station. We’d later transfer Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit.

First stop @7-Eleven. There were a lot of people at there to buy early breakfast and knick-knacks to munch on. Bought a pack of green tea & Snickers Almond bar to refresh myself ^^

Taiwanese mime performance & their larger-than-usual breed of dogs（*@ο@*）

Here are some photos of our 1^st hotel in Taiwan:

Found some of the local food something worthwhile to try… We started our dinner with a hearty local steak & Taiwanese mushroom soup ^^

Time to shop around! We walked around LiuHe night market which is well-known for cheap bargains and nice street food. 

Tried their “chau tau fu” and we actually prefer the HK ones as the soup was slightly oily~

The artistic Dome of light ∩__∩y

Posing with the 3D masterpiece（*^＠^*）

The beautiful Love Pier *@_@*

 

That's all for Day 1! Stay tuned for more entries ^^

Cheers, 

sassycat