宮原眼科 Miyahara

台中之旅最後一站﹣宮原眼科買手信！宮原眼科以前是眼科醫院，之後被日出集團買了再整修後，裡面保留著歷史的痕跡並推出餐飲服務，有雪糕珍珠奶茶手信餐廳。但我們真的太飽所以沒吃雪糕，不過很多人排隊應該很好吃

Last stop of our Taichung trip - buying souvenirs at the Miyahara! It was an eye hospital before and acquired by the company famous for selling dawn cakes.  After renovation, the company sold food and beverages inside Miyahara, such as icecream, bubble tea, souvenirs and operated a restaurant there.  I guess the icecream must be tasty as there were many people queuing up for that, but we were too full to try!

追加九個太陽手信！湊巧去宮原眼科經過看到
More souvenirs at the "Nine Suns" shop! saw it on our way to Miyahara

瘋狂掃貨之後就步行回酒店，幸好在台中車站附近

We walked back to our hotel after crazy shopping, luckily the shop is close to the Taichung station 

Day 5: 彩虹眷村-> 德國秘密旅行午餐->勤美->宮原眼科->台中機場
Day 5: Rainbow Military Community->Lunch at the Traveler Kitchen -> CMP->Miyahara-> Taichung airport

德國秘密旅行 Traveler Kitchen + 勤美術館 CMP Block

很有feel 的外觀   European-style exterior

從彩虹眷村搭的士去德國秘密旅行吃午餐 (地址：台中市西區華美街412-1號). 一聽名字已經大概猜到是德國菜吧，但想不到裡面是這樣的夢幻！店員都是德國童話故事人物的打扮，餐廳不同的樓層有不同的主題，menu 好像是手畫的很漂亮，重要是食物很大份很好吃！！！真的有回到德國旅行的感覺 :D 

We took a cab from the Rainbow Military Community to the Traveler Kitchen (Germany) for lunch (address: Taichung, Xi District, Hua Mei Street 412-1).  We knew it is serving Germany specialty but can't believe it was that fairy-tale like! The staff there all dressed like fairy-tale characters, there are different themes on different levels, pretty hand-drawn menu with generous portion of delicious food! We felt like travelling back in times to our exchange trips in Germany :D 

吃飽後就散步去勤美術館，很喜歡在城市中綠化的概念，不過我們去當天勤美術館沒開 hahaha 轉戰附近的勤美誠品 :) 

We walked to CMP Block after our full lunch. Love the idea of having green in the busy city centre, but well the CMP Block is not opened on our day of visit so we went to the Eslite bookstore nearby :) 

見到有學生拍畢業照，啊很青春！
saw a group of students taking graduation pics, oh time flies! 

Day 5: 彩虹眷村-> 德國秘密旅行午餐->勤美->宮原眼科->台中機場
Day 5: Rainbow Military Community->Lunch at the Traveler Kitchen -> CMP->Miyahara-> Taichung airport

台中彩虹眷村 Taichung Rainbow Military Community

看到朋友在台中彩虹眷村拍攝的照片很特別，所以有點遠也去
也是選了的士，而且的士司機說不跳錶等候再載我們走，不然應該不太容易自遊行去

彩虹眷村經過老兵黃伯伯畫了壁畫後應該吸引很多人去參觀
不是很大的地方，很彩色，因為黃伯伯是香港人所以會看到劉德華等明星的抽象畫 hahaha 還有林書豪 XD
但是聽說可能很快要拆了.. 趁還在去參觀吧！有緣還會看到黃伯伯 :D

Was motivated to visit the Rainbow Military Community by my friends' photographs taken there
We took taxi there.  If not our taxi driver said he would wait for us and drive us to the next destination without charging extra, it would be quite inconvenient to get there on our own actually

The Rainbow Military Community must have attracted many people after an ex-soldier Mr. Wong painted on the walls.  The place is not very huge and covered wit colourful paintings.  Since Mr. Wong lives in HK before, there are also Picasso-style paintings of Andy Lau lol and also Jeremy Lin

Have a look there before it is closed down! you will also meet Mr. Wong if you are lucky

入口 entrance

哈哈見到中間的結他人嗎？
See the man playing guitar in the middle? XD

yay 黃伯伯! 叫我們一齊 V 然後說他喜歡叮噹
We met soldier Wong! He asked us to put up the "V" sign and said that he likes Doraemon.. 

Day 5: 彩虹眷村-> 德國秘密旅行午餐->勤美->宮原眼科->台中機場
Day 5: Rainbow Military Community->Lunch at the Traveler Kitchen -> CMP->Miyahara-> Taichung airport

逢甲夜市 Feng Chia Night Market

逢甲夜市在逢甲大學旁，之前有想過搭巴士但實在需要等很久和車程很遠，所以直接搭的士 haha

Feng Chia Night Market is next to the Feng Chia University in Taichung.  Thought of taking the bus to get there but finally decided to take a cab to save the waiting and travelling time

就是整晚都在吃喝看買，沒甚麼特別但很開心！因為到很晚也很多人，沒有像過去幾天在山山天黑然後就睡覺 haha

Had been eating, drinking, sightseeing and shopping all night.  We were very happy as there was still many people on the streets even late at night, unlike our life on the mountains where people went to bed when sun sets... lol

黃金賊!!! Golden Squid! 

飽到傻 was super full after finishing this

北回木瓜牛奶 Papaya milk

:) 

Day 4: 玉山看日出->奮起湖->嘉義車站->(國光客運)台中車站->新驛旅店->逢甲夜市
Day 4: Watch sunrise at Yushan -> Fenqi Hu-> Jiayi Station-> (Kingbus) Taichung station-> CityInn Hotel->Feng Chia Night market

台中車站新驛旅店 CityInn Hotel (Taichung station branch)

終於回到市區！住也要時尚一點 hahaha 這次我們住在台中車站新驛旅店。
橙色的標誌很搶眼，大堂有休息的空間也可以讓我們收拾最後一刻掃貨的戰利品，早餐很豐富，服務人員很貼心，房間裝修很舒服，價錢也不貴
不過如果拿著很多行李的要留意，在台中車站到新驛旅店要步行到"後站"的出口，是地下的隧道但中間有樓梯，所以這個有點不方便

Finally back to the city! we lived in the CityInn Hotel (Taichung station branch) this time, a modern and nice hostel!
The sharp-orange-coloured logo, with a bright and wide lobby for guests to take a rest and to pack the souvenirs from last-min shopping, nice breakfast, friendly staff, nice room decoration and not very expensive
However please beware if you are carrying a lot of luggage, you have to walk through an underground with quite some stairs to exit at the "Rear Taichung station" when you walk from the Taichung station to the hotel.

披著羊皮的狼 the wolf with sheep skin XDD 

Day 4: 玉山看日出->奮起湖->嘉義車站->(國光客運)台中車站->新驛旅店->逢甲夜市
Day 4: Watch sunrise at Yushan -> Fenqi Hu-> Jiayi Station-> (Kingbus) Taichung station-> CityInn Hotel->Feng Chia Night market

兩人輕鬆遊 2013 ﹣台中/清境/日月潭/阿里山 Trip to Taichung/Cingjing/Sun Moon Lake/Alishan 07-11 Nov

真係好耐無見！其實係因為好少自由行既旅行 lol 

今次係同朋友2人去台中, 為免麻煩但又想慳錢, 所以找了共乘車＋公車作主要交通。4人以上包車當然係最方便同容易就時間，但2人包車會有點貴，所以有這些共乘車公司真的很好！除了遊客，台灣人也會搭 (不過溫馨提示一下：台中既的士司機話這些共乘車公司雖然是合法但未必有為客人買保險）

大概行程：

Day 1: 香港 - 清境 (住明琴清境山莊)
Day 2: 清境 - 日月潭 (住朵麗絲的家）
Day 3: 日月潭 - 阿里山 (住新順利民宿）
Day 4: 阿里山 - 奮起湖 - 台中 (住新驛旅店) 
Day 5: 台中 - 香港

看起來很趕吧？不過還好，因為其實中間的行程好 hea hahaha
特別留意從日月潭去阿里山既那一程係沒有共乘車的，但相反方向既有，所以如果會在嘉義那邊住一晚可以從阿里山出發。但從因為到達台中的時間是下午1 點多不想浪費一晚，所以先去清境 :D


This time I went to Taichung with my friend (only 2 of us) so we thought it would be better to "carpool" for most of the time to save money and time.  Of course it will be the best to rent a taxi with driver if there are more than 4 people, but that would be pretty expensive for the two of us.  So - a great thanks to these carpool companies! (but a gentle reminder: the taxi driver in Taichung told us that these carpool companies are legal but they might not have bought insurance for their customers)

Itinerary: 

Day 1: Hong Kong - Cingjing (stay at Ming Ging Farm)
Day 2: Cingjing - Sun Moon Lake (stay at Doris House)
Day 3: Sun Moon Lake - Alishan (stay at Xinshunli Minsu)
Day 4: Alishan - Fenqi Hu - Taichung (stay at CityInn Hotel Plus)
Day 5: Taichung - Hong Kong

The schedule is not that rush actually lol 
And since there was no carpooling service from Sun Moon Lake to Alishan, we took public bus instead.  However, there's actually carpooling service the other way round from Alishan to Sun Moon Lake, so if you plan to stay in Jiayi for a night, you might consider starting from Alishan.  Yet as our plane arrived Taichung at around 1pm and we didn't want to waste the day, we decided to head up to Cingjing first.