Taiwan 2016 Trip Overview - 8 Days around Northern Taiwan covering Taichung, Sun Moon Lake, Taipei and Jiaoxi

The best time to visit Taiwan is during their winter period from December to February. During this time, the weather is not humid and comfortably cool in the low 20s degree C. Living in a country near the equator with hot and humid weather all year round, just to enjoy the cool weather was already a good reason to make a trip.This is the itinerary for my 8 Days around Northern Taiwan covering Taichung,...

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Back to Taiwan and Sun Moon Lake

6 January 2016 Our last visit to Sun Moon Lake at Taiwan, back in December 2011 was relatively brief. During that trip, we had booked a taxi to take us from Taichung to Cingjing , with a stopover at Sun Moon Lake just long enough to experience what a typical tourist in a group tour would experience, which is not very much….  i.e. visit to the Wenwu Temple and a cruise on the lake from Ita Shao...

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Recommended place to watch the sun set at Sun Moon Lake

6 January 2016 As the sun sets in the west, a good place to watch the sun set and experience dusk over Sun Moon Lake is the Wenwu Temple. It is located on a high ground, on the eastern shore of the lake and offers panoramic view of the lake with the Central Mountains in the background. There is a large viewing deck just outside the temple. Many photographers could be seen on this day, some with fancy...

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Sunrise and morning at Sun Moon Lake

7 Jan 2016One of the best thing about staying overnight in Sun Moon Lake is the opportunity to watch the sun rise and enjoy the calm morning scenery of the beautiful lake before the tour groups come in.We stayed at the Mei Jen House and this minsu (B&B) organises a morning walk for guests to watch the sunrise every morning (weather permitting). On this day, there was no rain and a group of about...

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