Our first destination of the day would be...*drumroll* wait for it *drumroll*... SUN MOON LAKE ROPEWAY! In case you don't know what kind of place it is, it's an aboriginal village and the best part is, it has a theme park! Yay! We finally got to visit a theme park in Taiwan!
It was still a long way though, and some of us decided to sleep (including me), as the fu dao yuans played a movie, IP Man 2 on the TV bus. The beginning of the climax was a bit too noisy that I was instantly woken up during the fight scene. Therefore I couldn't sleep anymore and decided to catch up on the movie.
Just as the climax ended, everyone seemed to be woken up and paid attention a lot to the movie. Yeah, the climax of the movie - no matter you caught on the story from the beginning or not - was a bit thrilling. But at the same time, we'd reached the destination without even finishing the movie.
The place was freaking hot and crowded. I wonder why because it was Monday and I thought the place would be a little quieter than it should be. But then reality hit me: it was holiday season! Duh.
To get to the aboriginal village and theme park, we must ride on cable car that would take us to sort of the top of the hill. Kinda reminds me of Genting though
Scenic panorama taken from the cable car
Rows of colorful cable car.
From left to right: Monika, Sonya, Didi, Janet
Once we got there, we took like an open vehicle ride passing the aboriginal village straight to the theme park. We'd visit the aboriginal village later, because now, all we wanted to do was to HAVE FUN!
From left to right: Katrin, Sunita, Karin
Before we started the day with thrill rides and stuff, we settled down for a moment to have lunch. Here's our lunch:
Done eating! Now my friends and I - all stick in one group - took off together to seek for rides. Since we just finished eating, possibly we wouldn't do any rides that included extreme spin, twirl, or anything that could mess up our intenstines. =___= Our first ride would be...Space Mountain! If you know what it is, yes, it's an indoor roller coaster, with - thankfully - no upside down spin that I hate. Not bad for "warming up"
After Space Mountain, some of my friends decided to go for a ride which resembled Dufan's Tornado. Me and some of my other friends who had this fear on twisting and twirling just waited while watching our friends screaming as the compartment lifted and twisted them in the air.
The non-thrill-riders
Next rides included splash rides. So, again, we would be all wet today. There were two splash rides at the theme park. One had two small drops and another one had one, short yet backwards drop and lastly, a giant drop. The one with two small drops was called Gold Mine Adventure. To anticipate for being splashed and wet, we sported our yellow raincoats given to us earlier. The water that splashed soon after we were dropped in Gold Mine Adventure didn't give too much wet effect. My hair was just partially wet.
The next splash ride was even more thrilling with 30 meters drop >_<, called Caribbean Splash. I gotta brace on this. After the giant drop and splash, turned out that we got even more wet than before!! Later on, we split into two groups. One group decided to go on for more thrill rides. The other group (me included) decided to go for more chill rides, because practically we had no guts getting on for more thrill rides. Let's just call my group as "The Non-Thrill-Riders" :)
My group stumbled upon a simulator ride and we even found it really exciting, except for the part that too many extreme shakes can hurt your butts. Yeah right.
My group then rode on the cable car to go to Aboriginal Village we passed earlier, to watch a traditional Aboriginal show in Naruwan Theatre. We happened to meet with three fu dao yuans, one of which was our fu dao yuan - Mia - who also wanted to watch the same show.
The show went on and it was really just fascinating! (Well for me it was) No special effects involved, just some Aboriginal people dancing, whose dance eventually symbolized something. Man, I felt like studying Anthropology at that moment. Some after-show event included fortune telling, where this fortune teller would give you a small fruit. You clasped them in your grasp and you sort of made a wish.
We also spotted a traditional game and even took pictures in Aboriginal Traditional houses.
From left to right: Felicia, Sonya, Didi, Karin
From left to right: Karin, Audrey, Sonya, me, Felicia, Tasya, and Jane
Witnessing the traditional game takes place
Now, we took off from Aboriginal Village back to the theme park by the open vehicle (it was 4 pm and the cable car had stopped operating). Once we got there, three of my friends from my non-thrill-riders group decided to ride on a giant drop ride called UFO.
One of my three friends, Felicia, got very scared but succeeded to overcome her fear. Look at her expression while getting off the ride :)
Tense much?
From left to right: Jane, Didi, Felicia
We gathered back in the hall where we had lunch earlier. A group of Aboriginal people we spotted dancing earlier was also there, but now they formed a choir and sang a traditional song, possibly to welcome us all there.
Time to leave Sun Moon Lake Aboriginal Village and theme park, as now we were heading towards the hotel and spent the rest of the night there. The hotel was located on the top of a hill overlooking the lake. After dropping our bags to our rooms, my friends and I gathered in the hotel's balcony to play some games and watched the sun setting in the lake. What a breathtaking panorama.
From left to right: Celine, Didi, Jeje, Audrey, Jesse, Felicia, me
From left to right: Jeje, Audrey, Tasya, Celine, me, Felicia
Before going to bed, all of my group gathered in Janet's room (since she was the leader of our group) to plan for the fu dao yuan's surprise approaching the farewell.
So that concludes our night :)
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