We didn't enjoy the flight to Taiwan. As the kids grew bigger, the flight seat became "smaller". They were still awake when we took off at 1am and taking a long time to find a comfortable spot. Then, there was a lot of fidgeting and we even had to switch seat in the middle of the flight so that they can sleep better. Otherwise, jiejie kept kicking Didi when she stretched her legs. Daddy Lim and I managed to each catch a little sleep.
We took our time to clear the immigration and couldn't find our guide initially. He was already at the airport, we just happened to miss one another. This is how the car that took us around Taiwan looks like.
He took us to bfast, one of the many small shops that sell soya bean milk and you tiao. The shop sold a lot of other bfast stuff too like guo tie, fried noodles and many other traditional Taiwan bfast stuff. We ordered 4 items and these only cost about S$4! It was so unfortunate that only the 2 adults were eating and we couldn't order more varieties to share. This was the big pork burger that Daddy Lim had and it was yummy!
He took us to bfast, one of the many small shops that sell soya bean milk and you tiao. The shop sold a lot of other bfast stuff too like guo tie, fried noodles and many other traditional Taiwan bfast stuff. We ordered 4 items and these only cost about S$4! It was so unfortunate that only the 2 adults were eating and we couldn't order more varieties to share. This was the big pork burger that Daddy Lim had and it was yummy!
Our destination for the day was the Flying Cow Ranch in Miaoli, a good 2 hrs' drive away. The guide offered to bring us to 庄南老街, which is some old town with long history, far away from the city but some half hour away from the Ranch. That is the good thing about hiring a local guide. He doesn't come cheap, we spent over S$200 a day to hire him but we had a peace of mind over all transport arrangement and he may arrange to squeeze in local attractions while ferrying us to our destinations, if it weren't too pack for the day. All of us concussed in the car. You can tell how unwell we slept on the plane.
The guide would recommend us good food as well. The Taiwan sausages were all so good.
We had this handmade noodle soup at the 老街 and he also showed us the nice local delicacies to buy. At the 老街, we already bought quite a few stuff. Lol. I fear for my luggage.
Then we headed to the Flying Cow Ranch.
The guide lost his way a couple of times while he attempted to take some shortcuts. The short cuts were made up of both Government and private roads. Some of them were so narrow that they are barely a car width wide and they are all supposed to be dual ways. Next to the roads are like cliffs or drains usually. It was such an "exciting ride". We definitely took more than half an hour to reach the Ranch and the kids were all getting impatient in the car that I had to start feeding them tidbits.
The guide lost his way a couple of times while he attempted to take some shortcuts. The short cuts were made up of both Government and private roads. Some of them were so narrow that they are barely a car width wide and they are all supposed to be dual ways. Next to the roads are like cliffs or drains usually. It was such an "exciting ride". We definitely took more than half an hour to reach the Ranch and the kids were all getting impatient in the car that I had to start feeding them tidbits.
After like 10,000 "are we there yet?" from the kids, we finally arrived at the destination. It is basically a farm, but a really big ones. There are plenty of animal feeding that the visitors could do and DIY workshops to make milk, ice cream, etc that come at additional cost.
Our room wasn't ready until 3pm and we arrived at about 10.30am. So we headed out to the farm and the kids had so much fun feeding the animals. The animal food were usually placed in some kind of self-helped box, packed in small bags. Based on trust, visitors deposit TWD 10 or 20 for the different kind of food.
The kids were so excited. They fed the goats, the sheep, the rabbits, the ducks, the lambs, the baby ducks too. We probably spent quite some $$ feeding animals. At one point, I heard a local stopping his kid from more feeding, commenting that they spent so much $$ feeding the animals and would soon not have $$ to feed themselves! Lol.
Lil Shauna had an incident when one of the goats chomped her hand while she was trying to feed it. I saw her hand went into the goat's mouth and then she instinctively pulled her hand out. There were some teeth mark and luckily, no serious damage.
They also got to ride the pony. I was so proud of Lil Isaac. He cried buckets the last time we put him on a pony.
There were animal shows to catch too. We caught the duck show and were too tired by then. We managed to coax the kids to head back and check if the hotel room was ready.
We were glad that it was and bought lunch back to dine in the room. Then we all had another nap including Lil Shauna who usually does not. By the time I managed to get everybody up, it was already 6ish. We headed out for dinner and saw that not many people who visited the farm in the day stayed overnight in the farm. The farm was very much deserted while it was really crowded in the day. There wasn't many rooms for accommodation to being with, we only saw one small, low block and a few cottages (we stayed in one of them).
We had dinner and there was a DIY activity at 8pm, included in our package. We were taught and hands-on to make 铜囖烧, doraemo's favorite. The kids had fun, we tried what we made but were all full from dinner to finish them.
Finally, it was back to the hotel, a nice shower, a nice show before heading to bed. Interestingly, they screened nice movies on demand and we enjoyed a nice movie with the kids before bed. Sleep came easy as well despite the long nap that we had. We must be very tired. Lol.
The Ranch was a good place to visit on our first day. There aren't really much to do but enough to keep the kids entertained yet allowing us to turn in for a nap (cos things weren't really that exciting). We are looking forward to day 2!
Mummy Lim
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