Honeymoon - Hualien to Tainan - 4 Mar 10

Earthquake early in the morning!!! I felt when we were having our breakfast but zw didn't feel it. Nervous, kan cheong, watching out for signs of running... i held on to our bags in case we need to run!!After a while, it just stop. then the waitresses came out to have a look... We also carry on eating our makan. In the bus, we told 小杨 that there was a earthquake and he didin't feel it too. Then i was just thinking am i the only one who felt this?? but some of our group mates also say they felt it... luckily i'm not the only one. then we went to Taroko National Park 太鲁阁国家公园。 Recently there is a case of a falling rock hitting a tourist causing his death hence we were not allowed to roam far... but the mountains were very very nice, scenic. We do see the devastation of the 8 Aug Flood that had made to the environment as well. The coach went passed a small expressway (东西横贯公路） the statues of the lions were place along the road and were very cute, each of them have different expression. Next is makan then a visit to the local jade/granite factory 石之屋. We were shown how granite and jade surfaced and also talks on their jade.

鹿野溪游季温泉 is our next destination! we were travelling along the road where greenery of their rice plants welcome us. It really amazing to see a whole patch of land with plants planted in a well-organized manner. We stopped at a traffic light when i felt it again. 小杨 rush up to tell us that its shaking again. We could see the lamp post are shaking.. then he told us that 高雄 and 台南 area hit by 6 magnitude earthquake and the destruction is unknown... the one that we had experience is about 3 magnitude... so scary... cos we would be heading to 台南 shortly. When we reached the hotspring its already almost 6 le. We quickly go for the individual rooms to have a dip. To me, hot bath is not my kind, so i needed cold water as well. The place is quite run down which is why there isn't alot of ppl there.

小熊渡假村is the main highlights of the tour. We are the ONLY group in that resort. Makan again but the rice is very very very nice. This is the best rice that we had taken in our trip. hahaha... then we were told of our rooms. We share the cottage with a "mother & son" but in the end we had to change room as the ground level room was full of ANTS!!!! so suay... We were change to another cottage of 3 rooms but we only utilise the ground level room. Then we out for their so call "welcome party". Played few rounds of BINGO then some games then they had display of fireworks and launching of 天灯. We wrote "早生贵子， 天天开心， 身体健康， 发大财！！"

After that is own time own target, so we went to buy 2 rounds of firework to play with. This is the second time that we release firework on our own but i still dun dare to fire it. hahaha... so zw have to do it and i just stand there and film it!! hahaha... and its not expensive at all, only S$20+. Played basketball machine, arcade games, then bed is the next thing we head to... these few days the travelling had drain a lot of our energy, i didn't travel tour group before, so its quite taxing on me...

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Honeymoon - Taipei to Hualien - 3 Mar 10

Met our tour guide 小楊 at 740am then went around fetching the rest of the group. 忠烈祠 is the first place to go. It is a memorial for those soldiers who died during the revolutions and the only attracting point is the shift changing parade. Next is 野柳地質之園, where one of the stones look like queen's head. lunch is at 九份古之街. the beef noodles, 舊道口牛肉麵, were nice. Before that it was a gold mine. We tried the 五味綜合魚魚丸湯 but i didn't like the fishball in taiwan, it wasn't bouncy. We went past 蘇澳 to go to 馬祖廟。that was the last stop before we embark on 3 hours of journey without any resting point. The journey was tough and our bus are travelling around the mountain hence throughout the journey we were tossing around. and it seems very dangerous. when i looked down we were like inches to the end of the mountain. BUT the scenary is the best. its facing the pacific ocean hence it seems like no boundaries.

Its around 6pm when we reach the aborgines showcase, 南島文化劇場. it was a series of dance and at the end of it they pull audiences down to take photo with them and they charge 400NT!! hahaha... after that is makan at 花蓮 then we checked into 麗格hotel. At first when we are see the room, we went down to change cos its twin bedded. I wasn't able to sleep if i were to sleep alone in a unfamiliar place. the receptionist wasn't able to change, lucky my tour guide talked to the manager, they upgraded our room to a very big room and in the room there is SPA facilities!! We went out to find ZW's cousin shop. We tried calling her but the phone number is wrong. we went into her branch, Fragrance, (which was just outside our hotel) and saw her sis in law. ZW communicated with her and managed to find cousin. I think its fate that we saw her sis in law cos she wouldn't be in this shop for long as she have to go around delivering buns. But luckily that shop's pump was spoilt so she came over to repair. At first she didn't recognised zw, she thought we are cousin's tenant. In the end her sis in law send us over to another shop, a cafe, to wait for her. When cousin and her husband came, we chatted for a while then we went over to her house to visit her mum in law. Her mum in law is blind but she is very healthy and alert. She is full of smiles when she felt zw and me. then after that we went over to cousin house which is just above her mum in law. I showed our wedding photos to cousin and we took photo as well. Her dog is very cute very active. After that we went to their night market, it is between 和平路 and 自強路, but its already quite late so a lot of things are closed. 來來鹹酥雞and 第一家烤肉串are closed. We ate the 法式官財板 and 阿川大腸蚵仔麵線臭豆腐專賣店. The 鴨血湯 and the 黑胡椒牛肉官財板 are very very nice!! I even had 2 serving of the soup!!! my craving at least has been fulfilled!!

After that they sent us back to hotel and its already 1am, we tried operating the spa facilities but dunno how. it took us some time before we get it working properly. We slept around 2am and the next morning have to get up at 6.30!!