Vacation Travel In YiLan (宜蘭市) Part 1
February 6, 2009 Posted by Chris
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The time for vacation came quickly and the first stop for my vacation in taiwan (during Chinese New Year) was YiLan (Chinese: 宜蘭市).YiLan is a small city in the northeast of Taiwan. It is not too far from Taipei but has very little public transportation. Most people live in the outskirts of the city and have a car or motorcycle to get around. We left from Taichung (Chinese: 台中) and took the train all the way up north and a little east to arrive in YiLan. We met our friend Kerry there who was going to show us around.
The train from Taichung (台中) to YiLan (宜蘭) took a few hours and Kerry picked us up at the Train station about 10 minutes after we arrived. He droves us out back to his part of YiLan and we stopped at what he said was a pretty famous noodle restaurant. The Noodles looked pretty good and there were a lot of people outside so I don't doubt that it was famous. After we left the line got even longer!
After lunch we went to a Nearby museum of arts. There were actually several museums at this place all with their own little specialty. Some were crafts, some were about coal and one really strange one was constructed entirely from cardboard. We sat and watched a few cultural shows of acrobats, got a coffee and then headed off to see some temples and the beach.
To finish off the day we to the beach and relaxed for a while. No swimming though! Most beaches in Taiwan have a no swimming sign because the water gets real deep real fast which creates a mega-under toe or something similar. Then we went for dinner to a seafood restaurant. Seafood is very popular in Taiwan. One seperate proof is that at Subway in Taiwan the seafood special sandwhich is the most expensive (roast beef, ham, turkey? all cheaper!). Which reminds me of another off-track moment. I bought chicken nachos at a semi-mexican restaurant (they offer chicken or veggie nachos) here and the waiter replies to me: "well we only have steak....would that be ok to substitute?" needless to say I got steak nachos that night. The last picture of a Spider is actually a real spider we found near where we were going to sleep! Haha!
Our last stop before ending the day was at one of the many hot springs in YiLan. No pictures are allowed inside the hot spring so I only have these few shots outside. It was really relaxing. One of the pools has a bunch of small fish inside that nibble away at your dead skin. It feels really weird, the bigger fish kind of almost hurt but no blood or wounds, just relaxation.
Posted: February 6, 2009 under Personal
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