Travel Entrée: Day 3 Backpack Taipei, Taiwan Trip (台湾台北行）

Day 3 (Tuesday) - 12 May 2014, Hualien, Taiwan

Continuing with my 2nd day post,

Hualien was part of my plan because I saw too many beautiful pictures of Hualien online. We bought the TRA ticket online because the tickets will sold out according to some websites.You can buy the tickets from here.

You will require to proceed with full payment, and you can pick the tickets at Taipei main station, just pick it up at the TRA counter by showing them your passport.
You can buy the tickets from Shulin ---> hualien. There is no ticket from Taipei ----> Hualien, although you will board the train from Taipei main station. It is shown as Shulin is because the first station is Shulin.

The price ticket is NTD 469 per ticket, with approximately 2 & half hours of journey.
We bought some "bian dang" (便当）from 7-eleven as breakfast.

Once we arrive the station, the hotel came to pick us up and fetch us to the hotel, great service from this hotel. Of course the pick up is FOC.

We lodge in Bayview Hotel for a night, highly recommend this hotel because it is located just beside the sea, and they provide bicycles for visitors to ride around the area. Breakfast is also included.

It was NTD 3300 for a ocean view room for 4.

I also request for the hotel to arrange a taxi to drive us to Taroko Gorge (太魯閣國家公園) and Qingshui Cliff (清水斷崖). They charge us NTD 2200 for 4 for 6 hours trip. There is no entrance fee require for both these attraction, the scenery is really beautiful. The pictures below can show the beauty of the place.

The walk in this Shakadang Trail is 3km, but it is well worthy because it will lead to a beautiful waterfall.

The beautiful waterfall

We reach our hotel at 4pm and took a short nap and move on with the Zi Qiang Night market （自强夜市） & Jing Shan Jiao (金山角花莲）for more food.

花连牛排，赞！(Beef Chop, ratings 4 out of 5) The beef chop is well done.

I cant recall the name of this food, but it is an egg in a puff, it is delicious. Because the egg is half cook, just the type to my liking.

Not forgetting the taiwan beer, just a sip of it, not to the extend of being drunk :)

We had another Oyster Omellette, I personally prefer this to the Ximending's version.

We added this muscle into our "menu", fresh fresh fresh! Good!

After the dinner, we went for a walk in Jin Shan Jiao, good to look around although we were really tired of the travelling.

No entrance fee required to this cultural center in Hualien, good to give it a visit since there is not much of night activities in hualien, this centre closes at 9pm.