Full Day Adventure at Sun Moon Lake

Since Kitsune went to sleep so early, he also woke up early.

As in, 5am early.

Ugh.

It did afford us the chance to watch the sunrise. Unfortunately we were facing the wrong directions. All we saw was it getting lighter. Even so, the view is amazing, and even that was super cool to see.

It was unfortunately overcast in the morning, and a bit misty. The sun did later come out and burn some of it off. Breakfast at the Hotel was complimentary, so we headed off to eat once it reached 7:30am.

Spa Boiled egg, fresh tofu, etc. It was ok for hotel breakfast. Beitou place was better

Kitsune worked more after breakfast, and I sat out on our balcony and read. After getting ready around 1pm we went and got tickets to take the boat tour. (I was tired and kinda cranky so we didn't go out as early as we originally planned.) 

We got off at the first stop where the hiking trails to the Pagoda are. Spent several hours on the trails, but only made it up to the temple, not the Pagoda. (Side note, I am massively out of shape, and just about died going as far as I did. Kitsune was super disappointed that I refused to go the rest of the way to the Pagoda :(. ) I'll post photos of the trail and temple in another entry.

Taiwanese sausage and raw garlic (only Kitsune eats the garlic :P)

We hiked back down, and took the boat to the last stop, the Aboriginal town. I was tired and absurdly sweaty, but it was nice to slowly wander around the small night market and eat some tasty foods. I didn't really take any pictures unfortunately. We had this awesome fried large shrimp thing with veg and onions all over it on a bed of rice, a chicken drumstick that was slit open and stuffed with rice and veg and tasty things, and some soup dumplings. We had about 10 mins to get to the boat so we didn't have the chance to try anything else. 

Once back on our side of the lake, we wandered back to the tasty wheel scallion pancake things, and bought a bunch. Then went down to a small stand and bought Black Tea Ice cream (apparently Sun Moon Lake is known for their black tea and the black tea ice cream). We liked the ice cream, but it wasn't something we would actively seek out again. I think I prefer green tea ice cream over black tea.

We tried to stay awake as long as we could, but ended up crashing and burning at 9pm again. T.T We check out the next day.