15th September 2007
Saturday, September 15, 2007

Today we went to Mountain View Resort 山上人家森林農場 at Hsinjhu County 新竹縣.

It was a nice experience again getting to know new friends and interacting with them. We departed from Taipei Main Station with a small van. The journey was suffering for me as i was car-sick along the journey. Rubbing my ears didn't help to improve the situation while ascending the winding road heading to our destination. When we arrived, it's already 1100hr.

We then took some photographs and had our lunch there. The travelling fare includes an NT100 voucher for food at the resort. The restaurant is nice with beautiful decoration (we had our meal at outdoor), however the food was not nice as expected, and expensive... May be we should not order the vegetarian set meal. The main course has some sour taste and most of us didn't finished it.

After meal, we walked around to take some photographs.

We were heading to 清泉部落 around 1330hr. It was again another difficult journey for me along the rugged and winding road. We crossed some suspension bridges 清泉吊橋 and visited some places such as their elementary schools, San-Mo residential house 三毛居所, catholic church 清泉天主堂 and house around that area. Most of the people there are aborigines and we had a cute aborigine kid bringing us to those places. However, due to the time constraint, we didn't go to the hot spring 清泉溫泉.