Monday, November 19, 2007

Taiwan - Transport Galore

How many type of transport you use during a travel??? This Taiwan trip, I used these:

1. Airplane (courtesy of MAS Matta Fair)
Took about 3 hours from KK to Taipei. Normal 737 only. No leg-space!!!

2. High Speed Railway
Shinkansen-like. A costly way to travel. RM100plus from Taipei to Chiayi.

3. Train
Took this slow yet dependable (it's punctual in Taiwan, not KTM) from Taipei to Ruifang enroute to JiuFen. Also to Hualien enroute to Taroko Gorge.

4. Bus
From Chiayi to Alishan, due to the railway damage in Alishan, took this instead. So disappointed!!! Took the city bus in Taipei as well, RM1.20 for most of the intra-city ride.

5. Taxi
Reasonably priced in Taipei and majority of the driver knows the importance of good service attitude and never been refused, unlike in KL, "Jam lah...", "Tak pi sana lah" and dozens of excuses.

6. Boat
Roaming around the Sun Moon Lake, enjoying the magnificent sunset.

7. Van (Hyundai)
5am in the morning in Alishan to watch the sunrise and then took another one that brought us from Alishan to Sun Moon Lake.

8. MRT
MRT rules in Taipei just like it did in Singapore though I can't say the same for its brother in KL.

9. Motorcycle
This was the highlight of my Taiwan trip in which we drove a motorcycle from Hualien to Taroko Gorge all by ourselves!!!!!!!!!!!!! License???? Err........the weather was nice :)

10.Walking on Foot
Of course who can dispute that the best way to travel is by foot. Walk and walk and walk... you will find the unexpected.

1 comment:

RunWitMe said...

What about "crawl". You did "lan kai", did u?