Day 2 - Sun Moon Lake

Sun Moon Lake (Ri Yue Dan) is probably one of my favourite place in Taichung. Lulu told me it was "Day Moon Pond"! So much for direct translation! The lake is beautiful and surrounded by mountains. So we board a bus to Sun Moon Lake and it took us about 3 hour to reach.
We reached just right on time to check into our homestay with the name "Honeymoon".

It is a 6 people room and it is pretty spacious with 3 queen beds.

But personally, I prefer the one we stayed in Feng Jia.
We then bought ferry tickets to Harbour Yacht.

The tickets are pretty accessible near the dock. We got ours from our homestay reception.

 Cam-whoring with my travel partner! =D

There are 2 stops that the ferry brought us. The above picture shows the smallest man made island in Taiwan. People here believe in owls. Owls are said to bring "baby" luck. When an owl landed in a village, it is said that someone will be blessed with a baby.
We reached the first stop called Syuan Guang Temple where there is a famous woman who has been selling herbal tea egg for many many years. 

 We're talking about from when she was in her 20-s till now.

I think she sells not less than 1000 eggs per day.
And there is always a queue in front of her shop.

We each bought one and later went back for second round.

I love the egg. It was a little salty but I like how the egg is cooked long enough that the herbs are infused in the egg.

This is the one and only stone that says "Sun Moon Lake" and it looks perfectly normal to me. But everyone was fighting to take a picture with it. Nah, couldn't be bothered.
We had to climb up the steps and we came to this beautiful view of the lake.

I love it up here.

Wishes made by visitors.
The next stop was Yi Da Shao which is a small native town where we spent our time eating and sightseeing the town.

I believe it says grilled Wild Boar meat.

First up, drinks! Which I think it's alright.

Here you go. The infamous wild boar meat. I think it was okay. Nothing much to shout about but if you have not try it, you can give it a try.

The small sausage wrapped around by the glutinous rice (xiao chang bao da chang)
One of my favourite in Taiwan and probably the best found only in Sun Moon Lake is the fried mushroom.

Their mushroom is different than ours!

See the one on the left? Yeah, that's the one. And they cut it into cubes and fried.

And it is only NT40 (RM4.50)! Yummy! I miss this one already. T___T

Spotted 7 Eleven that provides postal service so I sent out this postcard to someone. =)

Overall, Sun Moon Lake is really a small town.

There's not much night activities and the dinner here is really expensive.
So expensive that we bought dinner from 7 Eleven instead! But never underestimate their 7 Eleven. Theirs are the best I have ever seen. Love the variety of food you can get in there. Probably I should do one entry on that!

My dinner! It was delicious!