Trip - Taiwan Day 3 - Yilan

We left the house at our normal pick up time, 9am.  Today we visited a nearby city called Yilan.  It's about a 1.5 hour drive from Taipei depending on traffic (sometimes takes 4 hours if it's busy).  To get to Yilan, we traveled through the snow Mountain tunnel (雪山隧道), which is Taiwan's longest tunnel with a length of 12.9km.  Pretty neat.  After a while, it feels like the tunnel just never ends...but it does.

We went to see the following places in Yilan:

- Wufengshi waterfall 五峰旗瀑布, an easy 20 minute walk up the stairs.  Only MIL, Rich, Julia and I went to see this.  Daidail fell asleep in the car so Lo Ye stayed behind.  Jas had a bit of a fever and wasn't feeling very well.  There are 3 stages to the waterfall but we only walked to the 2nd one.  It would have taken another 20 minutes up to see the final one.

After this, we went to Yilan Hot Spring Fish spa where you dip your feet into the pool and there are all these little fishies swimming around that eats your dead skin!  Cost was $4 CDN per person so it was a cheap and fun outing.  It was the weirdest feeling, truly.

There was a bakery right next to the spa fish place so we bought a Minion bread.  It's all just for looks, sadly no taste.  

- Not sure why we went to the Fish market 南方澳南宁鱼市场  but the driver took us there for lunch.  There were little stands with dried seafood products.  You can even buy them fresh and take it to be cooked at the restaurants upstairs.  We ate lunch upstairs and ordered seafood but unfortunately, the food was quite disappointing.  Before we left, we bought several bags of the fried crab.  All 3 kids LOVED eating them.

- Because of time, we weren't able to see the Lanyang museum (蘭陽博物館), on architecture and landscape so we took a pic of it.

- the final stop is the King car Kavalan Distillery (噶瑪蘭酒廠) which makes whisky.  As alcohol drinkers, we just had to come for a visit.  It was a huge plant and they had free tours hourly.  Look at MIL and FIL so deep in thought during the session.  At the end of the tour, they gave out free testers of whisky.  There were benches with different years of whisky laid out that you can taste test.  Pretty neat.