X Avenue: Kuanmootuan Taiwan Study Tour!

A week after the farewell party, I'm finally updating my blog.

It’s a strange thing that I wasn’t quite in the mood for something which I have been waiting and longing for. That was the case when I left for Kuanmootuan. Probably coz I wasn’t used to leaving home for so long. Anyway, in the end, the tour turned out fine enough, although there are things which are far from prediction.

On the 10th, we all gathered in Federal Hotel for some briefing and activities. The next day, we were the earliest to leave for Taiwan, as we had a transit at Hong Kong. First time experiencing being in 3 countries in one day. Hong Kong airport was marvelous, a place where YZ crave to be at. On the other hand, Taipei Airport was incomparable… not as new. A surprise then was, we clashed into Wakin Chau (周华健) who was rushing off through the side door. Hehe~ Didn’t manage to snap a pic.

In Taipei, our accommodation was arranged at Chien Tan Youth Activity Center. Of all the centers, it was considered the best. 6-person room we had, with 2 shower and 2 cubicles.

For meals, we were divided into permanent ‘tables’.

Table 21!

The food were Chinese-styled, and they have many different ways of preparing dishes using almost the same ingredients.. hah~ Somehow, majority of us did not like corn and ‘bamboo shoot’. But it didn’t bother me; I ate anything… hehe…
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Opening ceremony…

National Taiwan Normal University DPPOCS / 85˚C cake… yummy~

Cutting paper… / Our Chinese Kongfu master!

At Taiwan Legislative Yuan

Martyr’s Shrine (Zhong Lie Ci)

Discovery Center of Taipei

Along the street of Taipei…

Cute~

Eslite (Cheng Pin Xin Yi Dian)

Xin Guang San Yue

Taipei 101

Yang Ming Hill

National Palace Museum

Ying-ko Ceramics Museum / Hand-made Ocarina / DIY designing of a glass bottle

Guan Du Bridge / Guan Du Temple

Lovers’ Bridge / Fisher’s Jetty (Yu Ren Ma Tou)

Visit to National Taiwan College of Performing Arts

Nan Kang Software Park / a great mechanism of fountain / {the shooting venue of “White Hospital}

Miramar Entertainment Park {shooting venue of “Why Why Love”}

MRT station / Xi Men Ting

Fried oyster with egg (ou a jian) / Mango Ice / ever famous… Instant noodles!

ROUND ISLAND TRIP

YI LAN / HUA LIEN

National Center for Traditional Arts

Great view of the sea during the journey

Tarogo National Park

Lighting kongming lantern at Yiyuan Resort

Tarogo Gorge

~Luv this pic~

Chang Chun Ci

United Welcome Party

HUA LIEN /TAI-TUNG

At Tai-Tung East Coast

Basian Cave (Basiandong)

Terrace of the Three Immortals (San sian tai)

Had a hot spring bath in the hotel that night.

The common hot spring pool

Lazy for allt he trouble to get down, so...

My personal bath! =D

KEN-TING

Mao-Pi-To

Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium

starfish / sea urchine / sea rabbit

whale shark

feeding the sharks!

I want this home~

Seaweed and Squid ice-cream!! =D

A surprise celebration for the December birthday babies~

It was dong-zhi, so we had some tong-yuen , and later hang out at Ken-Ting old street, had a wonderfully tasty barbequed squid..

Ken-Ting Oluanbi National Park

KAO-HSIUNG

Mei-Nong Hakka Culture Village

Dream Mall

Visit to Kao-Hsiung Senior Citizens' Home, where we did a performance for them, but which turned out far from expected... mainly because of some technical problem.

Kao-Hsiung County Council, where we had a demo of a council meeting. Interesting and fun~!

That night was Xmas' eve, we had a costume party. Somehow again, our group performance (catwalk show entitled "Mirror") was not quite a success. But anyway, we did have a lot of fun!

My partner and I, (supposed to be) dressed up as witches

The most fascinating - Mountain A-Li

Sisters Pond (younger / elder)

Three Brothers

Four sisters

Golden Pig (jin zhu bao xi)

Dragon & Phoenix (still can't figure which way it is resembled)

Love Forever

Railway tracks

How cold it was...

Woke up at 4.30am next morning to set off to the peak to watch the sunrise.

Sunrise, the best moments...

Forest Railway Zhushan Station

Forest Railway Alishan Station

SUN-MOON-LAKE

Visit to National Chi-Nan University
{shooting venue of "Hua Yang Shao Nan Shao Nu)

Sight-seeing of Sun-Moon Lake (Ri Yue Tan)

the area famous for its Asamu Red Tea

Had a singing competition that night. Turned into counselor karaoke session later, and in the end seemed like a mini-farewell party when some 'nice' songs were sang...

PU-LI
Visit to Taiwan Paper Factory
A place where hand-made paper was produced. Over there, we had a DIY of a paper fan.

Round the factory...

Visit to Pu-Li Wine Factory
(which was more like a store selling various types of wine products)

'wined' sausage... yummy~! / ise-cream with wine

Formosa Aboriginal Culture Village
We were more attracted toward the amusement park there!

UFO!

Hot Air Balloon

Aladdin Square

Mayan Adventure!!

Skyline

At the cultural area

Swing on Swing~

{shooting venue of "Gong Zhu Xiao Mei"}

Wen-Wu Temple
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The sunset

Back to TAIPEI

Closing ceremony

Writing our Thank-yous... (starring Miaomiao =)

and sore feet~

at JinShan Activity Center
Kongming lantern again!