Formosan Aboriginal Cultural Village

Before we departed for the trip, my friends told me that we shouldn't spend one day in Fromosan Aboriginal Cultural Village as we only have 6 days in Taiwan, so they advised me to spend one day in Hualian. But, I know that we love cultural shows so I just stick to our original plan. And, I think we make the right choice. 

We enjoyed our time at this Cultural Village, the cultural shows are nice(love their singing, and we even bought the CD) and the rides are thrilling too.  

Admission fee: NTD780 (adults), NTD 390(children under 12 years old)

The village opens at 9am, but the rides only start operating at 10am. 

You can check out the operating hours and shows time at their website HERE.

Before I starts with my story, I should introduce you all with a new vocab: NARUWAN.

Naruwan have multiple meanings and is a must learn vocabulary in this cultural village.

Naruwan means "Hello", "Welcome" and "Good Bye"

We reached the village at 9am, to watch their daily welcoming dance. They will invite the visitors to join their welcome show. One of the visitor will become the head of tribe, and they will lit up the fire. Everyone are welcomed to cross the fire bowl(!?) before entering the village, kinds of blessing I guess?

Another show at Formosan Aborigines Square- Ritual Theatre (11am). This is the time they performed dances/singing during different rituals(eg like Welcoming Back their Warriors Dance) , narrator in Chinese was available.

There are 2 cable car lines within the cultural village area. 1 is Formosan Cable Car line where you can have the panoramic view of the cultural village, another 1 is Sun Moon Lake Line that welcome us with the panoramic view of the lake.

 

 View from Formosan line cable car

View from Sun Moon Lake line cable car

This is a cultural village for the aborigines, so they have areas to exhibit the cultures and living house for difference tribes (eg Ami, Paiwan, Bunun, Rukai etc). 

Ami girl was making muachi 

Gomitty was trying hard to punch on the muachi douche 

 

 

 

Exhibition area for the tribes

You can skip other cultural shows in the village but you shouldn't miss the one at Naruwan Theatre(130pm, 3pm). Information showed that this theatre is showing the complete set of aborigines' culture. 

We left the village after the 3pm show at Naruwan Theatre and off to Qing Jing. So, next blogpost will be about Qing Jing Farm. 

PS: I only blogged about the cultural shows available in this village, as there are the reason I put this into my travel itinerary, Enjoy reading,

Tropical Inn, JB

Just came back from working night shift, *sleepy* but can't sleep after having a cup of teh tarik and a piece of roti canai. Since I have nothing to do now, I decided to upload a hotel review.

Tropical Inn at JB is a 3 star hotel strategically located in JB city centre, which is 5 minutes driving distance to Hospital Sultanah Aminah, and town area. 5 minutes walking distance to JBCC and JB City Square. The hotel rate at Agoda is RM120/ night (inclusive of breakfast), and with the service and amenities provided, this is a budget stay that worth the price I paid. The building might looks old compared to the Double Tree Hilton next door, but the room is comfortable and I feel safe enough to stay at here.

My room at 22nd floor. 

This is what my room looks like once I opened the door.

Spacious, clean and comfortable.

I stayed for 2 nights and they did housekeeping for me even though I didn't request for it.

Coffee and tea making facilities

Clean bathroom 

View from my room
Swimming pool in DoubleTree Hilton is nice. 

Breakfast is inclusive.

Don't expect something fancy with the price you paid.

Nasi lemak, bread, jam, cereal, juices and coffee. 

So, if you are looking for a budget stay in JB, why not consider Tropical Inn?

PS: All the hotel reviews in my blog are not sponsored, I just write out to share my experience. So, if you appreciate my review/s, please click on the adverts available on the top, so that I can have more income to travel and share all these wonderful experience with you. Tq.

Accommodations at Feng Jia, Tai Chung

This is the first hotel review(accurately is guest house review) for my Taiwan trip. 

We spent our first night in Taiwan at 逢甲幸福Sweet House.  This guest house is located right in front of Feng Jia University.  This guest house offers a variety of rooms with very cute interior design at cheap price. We booked the 清新萊姆(四人房) at TWD1480 per night. (Original price was TWD1580, and I like their Facebook page, so we got a TWD100 discount). The reason I picked to stay at here because the room is cute(I was attracted by the elephant soft toy in this room), and unlike other guest house, they didn't request for deposit, which is very convenient for foreigner travelers  like us. As return of this privilege given by the owner, kindly inform the owner if you decided to cancel your booking.

FB page of the guesthouse: Sweet House逢甲幸福住宿 - 台中住宿/逢甲住宿/逢甲Sweet House

The hotel is just at the valley in front of Feng Jia University.

I was frightened when the person in charge lead us to the building.
Anyway, I feel relax when I stepped into their unit.
There is 7 or 8 rooms in their unit, water dispenser machine is available at the corridor.

We were given 2 keys, one for us to enter the unit,
another one is the room key.

We were so excited to see this cute and warm room.

Arrrgggh, the elephants!!! So cute~~~

Feels like buying one for myself. 

The room wasnt big, but is enough for 4 of us.

We checked in late(around 830pm and check out early on the next day).

TWD1480 for one night stay, worth it lah~

Basic amenities provided in this guesthouse:
Toothbrush&toothpaste, shaver, shower cap, cotton buds, skin lotion(ya, they provided that!),
mineral waters for four of us, reusable paper towels and normal towel.   

Bathroom is small.
So, my advise is that, put your clothes in a recycle bag and hang it behind the door if you don't want your clothes to get wet. Body and hair shampoo are provided. Sanitary system in Taiwan is different from ours, so do not throw used toilet paper into the toilet bowl.

So, that's all for my review on this hotel. 

End the post with my favourite elephant soft toy.

PS: All the hotel reviews in my blog are not sponsored, I just write out to share my experience. So, if you appreciate my review/s, please click on the adverts available on the top, so that I can have more income to travel and share all these wonderful experience with you. Tq.