I opted to stay in the Shangri-la Leisure farm in the Ilan county, which is an hour express train ride from Taipei.
Taking the train was a new experience and interestingly, while waiting for WF to get the train tickets, Ning was interviewed by some TV crew on her wish for 2009 (New Year was just around the corner). Of course, our dear girl was all so shy and didn't say anything to the microphone at all. Eventually, mummy me had to say it for her.
We alighted at this really old and 60's kind of station at Luodong town. And had to take a cab up to the mountain area.
The leisure farm started out as a fruit plantation and then eventually the owner added the chalets as well. The view from the farm was scenic and fresh. Too bad, it was raining on our first day of stay. That dampened our spirits a little.
The farm's staff will organize a typical night activity every day which includes rice dumpling making (the farm's kitchen will pound their own rice to make the dough, so its extra QQ when we ate it), top spinning competition among the guests and lighting of the lanterns. Other than these, you can tour around the farm and visit their plantations with/without a guide, enjoy the view and create your own huge gigantic bubble from the soup water the staff concocted (see slide show).
Its a nice experience and we definitely want to stay in another leisure farm for our next trip. Probably an animal farm this time.
2 comments:
looks really cool! did u plan all these by yourself?? didn't think taipei can be such fun, other than eat, shop and more eating!
yes, i did all the planning from flights to hotels and daily itinerary.
Taiwan is a very child friendly place than HKG. they even have family toilets in and breastfeeding rooms in the bigger MRT stations too. S'pore don't even have such facilities in our MRT.
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