Nothing much to share actually,
Day 1
12pm : land at Taoyuan airport just before 12pm, buy SIM cards and took bus to Taoyuan HSR reach just after 1pm
1:30pm: took HSR to Taichung
2pm : took cab to Hotel Millennium Vee (~NT$200), check in
3pm : Took cab to 彩虹村 (NT$200), walk around took photos
4:30pm : Took cab to gaomei wetlands (NT$800), weather wasn't good for viewing sunset so decide to leave early.
5:30pm : Took cab to Qingshui train station (NT$300)
6pm : Took bus to Chaoma which is near to Fengjia night market
7pm : Walk to Fengjia and spend the night there before taking a cab back to hotel for NT$140.
Day 2
7am : Leave hotel and took cab to Taichung HSR to take bus to sun moon lake, bought the nice NT$1020 package including Formosan village, boat ride, bus etc with nice you you cards.
8am : Took the bus to Formosan village and reach around 9:30am. Walk in and got free gifts from the nice auntie at entrance because we are foreign tourists.
1:30pm : Decide to take cable car over to sun moon lake from Formosan village, walk around the cable car area and bought some food.
3pm : Take the boat over to xuan guan temple to get the tea leaves eggs.
3:45pm : Took boat to shuishe, walk around the area.
5+pm : Took bus back to Taichung HSR because my wife still want to go Fengjia
7pm : Took bus from Taichung HSR to Fengjia night market before retire back to hotel for the night, took cab for NT$140
Day 3 :
9am : Checkout and took cab to Taichung train station to take train to 中社花市. Store luggage at train station for NT$70.
10am : Took the train to Taian station. NT$34
10:30am : Reach Taian train station, saw a hp number to call for transport to 中社花市. Call the number and wait for pickup to 中社花市, NT$120.
11am : Eat BBQ lunch at 中社花市, tour the garden and bought honey.
2pm : Call cab to bring us back to train station, NT$120.
2:30pm : Train back to Taichung.
3pm : Go gong yuan yan ke to eat ice cream.
4pm : Took our luggage and take train to xinwuri which is linked to Taichung HSR.
4:30pm : Took HSR to taipei.
5+ pm : Took metro to ximen station and walk to hotel to check in.
That's the end of the Taichung portion which i didn't rent car nor book driver because my wife didn't like the idea of me driving nor spending too much on hiring driver. Overall, i like Taichung. Easy to get cab but most bus interval are very long except for some bus like the one i took Qingshui to Chaoma. Some locations like xinshe is out if not driving or no driver so i couldn't go.
