Monkey Business

Monkey Buisness... as it says we were a couple of monkeys

on this trip. Or acted a little like or felt like monkey in cage

of a zoo. Ha ha. Later more.

So still trying to escape the boredom in Neili we decided

spontaneously to do a weekend trip to Tainan and Alishan,

where none of us have been to so far. Actually i have no idea

who had the idea to go there ? Anyway at first it was just

us ze Germans for the first two days. 1 Girl and 4 Guys. Poor 

Maggie. But I guess we behaved very well ;) Anyway we started

way too early in the morning to catch our train in Neili-Jhongli.

Where ... there was a bus supposed to take us directly to Tainan.

Ehhhhhhhh. Nope after asking around using my poor chinese, 

we decided to call a friend to give us the address of the bus Company

in chinese Characters. EHHHHHHH... we do not drive to Tainan"

was their answer. Cool and now? Next door there was one driving

to Tainan. A luxury Bus. With massage chair and own tv and game

station. 

After reaching Tainan around 2 pm we were first looking

for a hotel. Went to the tourist information centre at the

Main station. Helped us a lot. In the end we ended up

in Hotel Takatama (jap *_*) right at the Main station.

Was kind of nice. 1000 nts per person for 2 nights. 25€

Caution this blog entry consists of around 200 Pitures.

Yeah I am too lazy to sort them out. So it is easier for me to 

just upload all of them. THis is a Wheelchair Scooterdriver :)

Madness

Ah and as usual the pictures are not in the right order cause 

Blogger is to stupid to check the data of the pics. Anyway this

is An-ping a peninsula at the seashore of Tainan. It is/ was basically

an old Fort of the Dutchmen. There is the fort itself some temples

and a building called Tree House which is pretty cool.

Amazing trashcans everywhere! Kind of seldom.

This is a part of the Tree House. I heard that it is actually

haunted from a classmate. And actually it looks like. I would

not like to spend a night in there. Creepy. Anyway the

night before we already went there cause somebody

said there is a House in the top of the tree with a german

restaurant where we can drink german beer. So we were looking

for it and did not find it. Actually it is neither nor. Just to stupid to

read the Lonely planet properly....

Good setting for a Horror Movie. I like it.

I have to admit that i have no idea what this house is all about.

I did not read the information. Anyway there was a building

next to it with real looking "Wax"(maybe) figures about some

history. And I believe that one of them was moving!!! For real!

The area around is very touristic with lots of souvenir shops

And stand etc.....

Dancing?

This is the fort. its quite nice. Although it is actually kind of

far away from the seaside. So whats the point?

Ze Germans... just 5 of us this semester. Getting less and less.

4 from Augsburg and one from Ingolstadt.

A canon.

Sooooo faaaatttt

Thats the An-ping harbour. With Tainan in the bg.

Happy place!

Finally this day we managed to find the german restaurant.

It s name is Merchant something house. The sell "authentic"

german food and beer :) äh not!

Frankfurter Currysausage ... not

Actually very good fried fish!

Surprisingly cheap 160 Nts Erdinger Woiza. With icecubes.

This is actually called somethign Tower. To me it looks

like a temple.

This is the Tainan Garden/Flower nightmarket. Actually 

we hesitated to go there cause we are kind of sick of 

nightmarkets. Anyway we did not regret. It was the most 

silent, peacful nighmarket I have ever been to. No annoying

people screaming loud. Nobody punching or ....

The only thing is that I guess Tainan in general ins definately

not used to young foreigners. We caught lots of looks.

Thats why I said we felt like monkeys in a cage. Anyway

this was a pleasant night-marked experience!!!!

So since the pictures are not in the right order. This

is Sunday on the way to Alishan. We meet up with 4 other

french friends from YZU. Starting in Chayi with annoying

people as hell who wanted us to take their taxis or private

shuttle busses up to the mountain. They even grabbed some

of us. 

Our bus!

Close to the top, there is a limited range with restaurant,

most are expensive as fuck and i guess all dont really taste 

well. So we had this Wildmountaindeer. Mhm yeah alright.

Nothing special. 

So as soon as we arrived we heard that one of the train is 

just going until the half of the mountain. The other one

is working but takes jsut 8 minutes. So we decided to walk.

Ah and by the way they Train staff has lunch break around

1pm. Which is exactly the time were most of the visitors arrive.

Really smart Taiwan. Again. -.-

I have to say the area there is really really great. lots of

interesting plants. Giant trees. Really nice. Except of 

the hundrets of streets up there and the busses who drive

every minute through a " forest recreation area " which

might also be a national park. ???? Does it make any sense.

But its really great there. The whole place is packed with 

tourists from China who do not hesitate to take pictures of

us "Monkeys in a cave" foreigners, even without asking.

So we decided to the same and take pictures of them!!!

He he he!

This is the japanese mountainrailway btw.

Bridge for only 6 ppl at a time. Guess chinese ppl

cannot read Chinese characters cause while we took the

pics groups of twenty ppl passed the bridge which was 

starting to make wired sounds.

Tainan on the first day. Friday.

Ugly as shit!

So Felix, who is vegetarian read that there is a vegan

restaurant in Tainan. So we had to walk there of course.

Half an hour. Great weather. I like Tainan.

Playground of a school looks creepy.

So finally we managed to arrive at the " The Vegan" restaurant

Felix was really happy. :) This here is Vegan BBQ

This is Hungarian Stew. :) Does not taste at all hungarian.

Anyway we got a Salad, Main Dish, BBq sticks, somtehing like

Miso Soup and a dessert for 180 Nts each. Quite cheap.

This is the Confucius temple. What I like about Tainan,

you can walk everywhere. Since there is no Mrt its quite 

hard to go by bus. Cause its takes a long time to wait.

So we walked around 15 km this day. I guess. The whole

way to An-ping as well. Sure it is easier to take scooters.

But why?

This is a bamboo construction around a house. For 

construction workers I guess.

There are plenty of japanesque restaurants in Tainan.

But we never entered one :(

Weird finger!

And Tainan has a bar street. Tai´ an Rd.

And the passengers walks are shiny or flushy or Ah 

dont know how to say that. Same as in Kaoshiung.

Looks a little like Ai he the love river in Kaoshiung.

I started to miss Kaoshiung a little.

Since there was no Restaurant in the Treehouse we 

had no other choice than 7 11

IKUZNS

Thai Massage!

Since me and Maggie were the only once on this trip

who spoke at least a little bit chines it was mostly on us

to talk. ( I am a little bit proud) Anyway sometimes it

does not work well. This place sucks. The staff sucks.

They are inpolite and unfriendly and nobody should go there.

At least the food, which arrived was good. They forgot mine.

I asked them to make they said they dont have. We left.

They suck! 

No clue where to go?

The end