This is a daily chronicle of my trip to Taiwan from 9th to 24th May 2006 with Ronghua and partially Boon Liang. I am trying to blog about all 15 days, so it takes time..sorry.. If you wanna read all that have been posted, pls click on Taiwan Adventure category here, or on the left sidebar.

I must say that we were pretty jaded by Sun Moon Lake, and continuing the cheapo fashion, we decided not to pay NT600 each for the cab tour ard the lake as they weren’t particularly impressive.

So a visit to 九族文化村, or Formosa Aboriginal Village nearby ensued. The place, is a pretty grand one in terms of its size. It has a European garden that is about the size of 2 football fields, a relatively big pine garden and a pretty decent amusement park with ok rides. There was of course the main attraction, display villages of the 9 aboriginal tribes in Taiwan. Pretty cheesy i must say, but the place proved to be good one-stop station to get all the info about all 9 tribes, w/o having to travel to remote villages.

Dancers in the morning welcome ceremony
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