Because it's summer vacation, so my friend and I decided to make 5 days trip to Hualien for 2 days and Taitung for 3 days. We using public transportation, since if u wanted to ride a car you need driving license or else you need to pay a fine that would make u instantly broke😂 Even it is more convenient to ride a car but we don't have any choice. So I decided to using train to go there, you can book it in here or in here
Day 1 Taipei - Hualien
After I buy train tickets from Banqiao Train Station to Hualien Train Station for 457ntd(new taiwan dollars). It took 2 hours or more to get there. For the train, I will recommend u to choose Tze Chiang自強 because it's faster.
For the hotel, I stayed at Mini Voyage Hostel小旅行迷你公寓 for 2 days. It's a backpacker hotel, I don't want to spend money too much for 5 stars hotel cause i'm going there not to enjoy the hotel but going to explore around Hualien scenery and culture. We stayed there for 2 days. It costs 750perday and I highly recommend u to booking it online because it's much cheaper. After all the hotel is quite good enough.
After I checked in the hotel, I went to DongDaMen YeShi東大門夜市 to taste Hualien kind of food. U could go there by bus, cycling or walking just like me😂 and after long hours of walking you may felt u're feet is knackered 😂 if you can't speak chinese, bicycling and google maps are the best choices for u because there's just a few people who could speak english.
Day 2 Hualien, Taroko National Park
You can took a bus to Taroko nearby the train station. You can ask the receptionist to tell u where to take the bus. Probably you need to pay attention to the time because the bus only come every 1 hour. You can ask for bus schedule in the bus station and buy tickets there if u don't have youyouka悠遊卡. I will recommend u to go in the morning and started explore from the bottom of Taroko.
First, you can go to Changchun Shrine長春寺, after that walk to Shakadang Trail砂卡礑步道. Then, you may take bus to Yanzikou燕子口 and Tianxiang天祥. Both of them have beautiful scenery. From Tianxiang, you could go to Baiyang too! Just pay attention to time if u want to take the bus.
That day because we a little bit lost after arrived at Tianxiang and we afraid that we miss the bus so we decided to go to Qixingtan七星潭. But be careful, don't go into the sea wave cause it's dangerous. Or you ended up like me 😂 almost die lol... so my slippers almost lost to the ocean that time. But I ended up lost my lipbalm to the ocean... forgive me😂 it's not that i wanted to littering but oh well...
Day 3 Hualien - Taitung, Tiehuacun鐵花村
After 2 days in Hualien, we went to Taitung. You just need to go to the Hualien train station and you can buy the tickets to Taitung. When we arrived at Taitung, we go to our hotel by taxi. But i recommend u to take the offers from drivers nearby there, because it's cheaper than to take taxi. We slept at Enjoy Sleep Hostel and i just felt the bed, facilities isn't as good as the hotel that I stayed before. But the owner is quite kind so it feels home! The hotel location is so strategic. It's near the Taitung Forest Park台東森林公園 and Haibin Park海濱公園.
That night, we decided to go to Tiehuacun鐵花村 by walking or if u feel tired u can rent a bike or electric bicycle. It's quite cool tho!
Day 4 Taitung
The next day we decided to rent electric bicycle. But, I recommend u to rent bicycle instead. Because when we arrived in Taitung Forest Park, it's not allowed to ride electric bicycle inside. You need to pay 100ntd to rent bicycle right there, the forest is enormous. I prefer to ride a bike than to walking around lol. To go inside the Forest you need to pay the tickets for 30ntd.
After we done look around the forest, we went to Haibin Gongyuan. Unfortunately, it's been under construction so the photos didn't good enough but oh well...
That day is really hot that I got sunburn. My sunburn took 2 days to recover. 😂
So, Taitung is known well for it's hot air balloons. Before you go, you can check the schedule when or where they flew hot air balloons in here. But that time, I decided to see night glow shows, it's located in Sansiantai三仙台 before dawn 4 a.m. So there's another schedule, i saw it in here. We took bus at 2 a.m. to Sansiantai. The bus station is located behind Tiehuacun Village. You need to pay 100ntd for the bus.
The bus driver so kind! He remind us the time when they will go back to Taitung city. So you need to pay attention to the time!
After we got back to Taitung city, we go to Taitung train station and back to Taipei. We bought tickets in 7-11 the day before for 799ntd :( it's expensive tho.
CONCLUSION❤
We thank God for our journey and His blessing through our journey. It's exhausting but got some lessons in life and precious moment that's memorable. When we arrived in Taroko, we was waiting for a bus. We didn't know there's no bus is coming until there's a chauffeur that remind us. Luckily there's a good uncle's who willing to drive us to the train stations. I just felt very grateful that God sent me that uncle's who is kind enough to strangers like me. I hope that Jesus could repay your kindness to me!
And than when we got to Qixingtan Beach, we've been searching for bus station. We've had missed a lot buses back to Hualien. And i'm quite afraid that we can't go back to Hualien. But, there's a chauffeur who see our desperate faces that have been walking for kilometers away and he makes the bus stop for a long time on purpose just for us! So we could get into the bus and go back to Hualien.
This trip is tired but well, I got many lessons in my life. Thankyou Taiwan🇹🇼 for giving me endless kindness that I will cherish for my whole life. After all, thank you Jesus. Even in my difficulties, You gave me people to help me out to overcame my difficulties ❤
If all of u want the list of how much i spent money on this trip, tell me in the comment below! I would talk about it in my next post❤
Byebye! Thank's for reading my blog.
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