Taiwan Day 23 : Transport to 日月潭 Sun Moon Lake - Cycling along thr Sun Moon Lake path

There are two ways to go to the Sun Moon Lake from Tainan.

1. Take two bus
- Take bus from Tainan Peimen station to Taichung station. This station is few hundred meters from Tainan station. The bus is operated by united bus company (UBUS). (TWD 250, 2.5 Hours)
- Then take bus at Taichung station direct to the Sun Mook Lake. (TWD 229, 1 hour and 50 minutes)

2. Take train to ShuiLi and Bus to Sun Moon Lake
- From Tainan station, take the local train to Jiayi since there is no direct local train to ZhangHua. (TWD 90, 1hour and 04 minutes, frequency:20-40 min)
- At Jiayi Station, take local train to ErShui Station. (TWD 71, 47 minutes, frequency:20-40 min)
- At ErShui Station , take JiJi line local train to ShuiLi station. (TWD 40, 44 min, frequency: 1hr 20min)
- At ShuiLi station, take bus 6671 or 6801 (TWD 54, 30min, frequncy: 1-1.5 hr)

JiJi line local train

We took the second options since it's more economical and can collect more stamps. Although both travelling time are almost the same, the 2nd options have longer waiting time since change transport at 3 stations. 1st options take longer time as taichung is northwest of sun moon lake which is like travelled north for the first bus and south for the second bus.

1330 - Reached 日月潭转运站 Sun Moon Lake bus terminal. There are a lot of bicycle rental shop. We asked and know that mostly normal bicycle rented is TWD 100/hour and TWD200/day. After checked in the booked hotel (Tanxiang Resort Hotel, TWD 756 for a double room with private bathroom per night) and had simple lunch, we went to rented the bicycle. Since we planned to ride scooter next day, we bargained and got both one day bicycles and 24 hours scooter for TWD800. Normal scooter rental is TWD600/24hour. Therefore we got total of TWD200 discount.

Fried rice, TWD 66 with 10% tax. Nice, cheap and better than convenience store

In the hotel, he told me we should took the ferry. But we don't have time for this.

After that, we cycled along the Sun Moon Lake bicycle path. The path is quite rough and there are few small uphill and downhill. This path is also shared with the pedestrian.

Cycling until half way, both of us is so tired and headache since we didn't get enough sleep yesterday. We rest and took a nap at the XiangShan visitor center. After that, we continue the journey until 月牙湾 Moon Tooth Bay. The total journey took around 5km. After that, the sky was turning dark. At the last kilometer, the path don't have light. It was so darked that need to cycle slowly.

After returned the bicycle, we had the dinner at the MOS burger seem like no much choice at here. Then we went back hotel and rest early.

We rest at this visitor center. The building design is very unique.

Cycling along the Sun Moon Lake

月牙灣 Moon Tooth Bay

MOS burger

Near the MOS burger, there is a cardboard shop.