7.4 Sun Moon Lake Tour 日月潭遊艇遊湖 Part 2

After getting down from the Sun Moon Lake Cable car, we walk back to Yidashao Wrarf(伊达邵码头). We waited for our boat to Syuanguang Wrarf (玄奘寺码头)

Since it is the last boat back to Shueishe Wharf(水社码头), we have insufficient time to visit the attractions around Syuanguang Wrarf (玄奘寺码头). We only have time to buy a Herbal egg(茶叶蛋).



Sunset along the way back to Shueishe Wharf(水社码头)



Most expensive Hotel at Sun Moon Lake. Room price USD $1000 per night. Heard that weekends are always full-house.


This dog knows how to help his owner to pull the strings to the Wharf.

Dinner of the day ~ doesn't taste good.

7.3 Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village 九族文化村

Finally we reach the Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village (九族文化村). Read here on how to reach the culture village from Sun Moon Lake.

Yes, indeed there is tons of small kids on the park on weekdays. I was wondering are they on a school holidays? But later I just found out they are on a school trip to the park. How I wish I have this activities when I was young.

There is another cable car inside the culture village called culture village cable car.(九族缆车) I recommend that to walk down the hill and later take the culture village cable car up to the entrance.

After the entrance, we can see lots of buildings and statue on the park. The culture village shows 9 different native race culture, buildings and lifestyle.

Lavender plants all around the culture village.

Some performance on the park.


Beautiful Amis lady from the performance.


Lucky lamp work beads accessories. The movie Cape No 7 make this accessories become famous.


We have lunch at the Aboriginal Culture Village. The Aboriginal dish doesn't taste as good as I thought, but the chicken chop was tasty.


There is a small pond with fishes beside the native's village.


Next we reach the theme park. There are several games and adventures games. I only play this water game – 加勒比海探险. It is a wet game and we need to buy raincoats and put all our things in the locker. Why wearing rain coats, see the below pictures and you will know why.

The water splash wasn't just once, but several times. We need to put all our things in a locker and buy the rain coat.

Indoor theme park

TS told me this UFO can see the whole culture village beautiful view.

The most adventurous/scary game on the theme park – 马雅探险. You can see all the spinning and twisting on the roller coaster.


While waiting for TS in his game, I manage to snap a picture of this lovely Taiwan native child.


After the theme park, we saw a huge garden with full of flowers called-水沙连欧洲宫廷花园. We took the whole picture from far view as we are short of time plus very tired. If you have time, you can sit the park train to visit round the park. I think its such a lovely place to take pictures.







Why are we so rush? Because our boat trip back to our homestay is 5pm.

Beside the huge garden there is the Culture village cable car which will take us up on the entrance to the Sun moon lake cable car. In the Culture village cable car, we are able to see the whole view of the cultural village.

7.2 Sun Moon Lake Tour 日月潭遊艇遊湖 Part 1 + 日月潭缆车 Sun Moon Lake Cable Car

Next morning, we reach the Shueishe Wharf (水社码头) at around 9am.

Today we plan to visit Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village (九族文化村)。

How go to Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village from Sun Moon Lake?
1. By Bus
2. By Sun Moon Lake Cable Car

Our homestay is at Shueishe Wharf(水社码头).
The Sun Moon Lake Cable Car is near Yidashao Wrarf(伊达邵码头).
So we decided to take the boat from Shueishe Wharf(水社码头)to Yidashao Wrarf(伊达邵码头), where we can go to the Sun Moon Lake cable car station.

The lake tour is divided into 3 major stops:
1． Shueishe Wharf(水社码头) –〉Yidashao Wrarf(伊达邵码头)
2． Yidashao Wrarf(伊达邵码头)-〉Syuanguang Wrarf (玄奘寺码头)
3． Syuanguang Wrarf(玄奘寺码头) –〉Shueishe Wharf(水社码头)
At the back of the ticket has the time of each location on when the boat is leaving.

The earlist boat from Shueishe Wharf(水社码头) is 9.20am, and the latest boat from Syuanguang Wrarf(玄奘寺码头) back is 5pm.

Every boat company will have it's own time.


Pink yacht ~ kawai-neh


We took the earlist boat ride which is 9.20am. That day is weekdays and we are only the 2 passenger on the boat. Seems like we are renting the whole boat. Hehehe....




Reach Yidashao Wharf (伊达邵码头)。


But the Sun Moon Lake Cable Station look so far, we need to walk 20-30minute.


Here we reach the cable car station, there is a lot crowd on the station, especially more then hundred kids runing around.


We quickly move to buy our tickets.
There is a promotion purple lavender《紫戀薰衣草 》 on that time, our ticket to the culture village + cable car is NT$550 (normal price NT$700)
Our cable car ticket number was over thousand at 10.15am.

The cable car starts operating at 10.30am. I took the culture village map and study on it. It definately is a huge park and there is alot things to visit and play.

After waiting for half hour, it's own turn on the cable cars. It is not my first time on cable cars as there are cable car's at Genting, Malaysia. The Sun Moon Lake cable cars are in these 3 different colors: blue, red and yellow.


If you come to Sun Moon Lake, this cable car trip is a must ride. From the cable cars, you can see the amazing beautiful lake view from the cable cars.

7.1 日月潭骑脚踏车游记 Cycling Exprience around Sun Moon Lake

After settle everything on the home stay, we decided to have a short cycling trip around the lake. Sun Moon Lake is a very huge lake. Walk or cycle the whole lake will take hours.

The last bicycle that I ride myself was 16 years old. It has been years that I didn't ride a bicycle and I was having a hard time controlling it. I fell down several times and TS say I look dangerous cycling like that. But gradually I manage to control the bicycle as I won't fall that easily.

The weather wasn't that good. There is so much fog around and we couldn't have a clear picture of the lake.


Poor bride is taking her wedding photo is such a cold evening.

The water of the lake is clear and clean. No rubbish. I don't think we can see clean lake at Malaysia!


There is a temple around our path. Its a small slope up the hill. I was exhausted cycling up the hill, thus I just push the bicycle up.


Finally reach the temple - Dragon and Phoenix Temple (龙凤宫).


Next we saw the Sun Moon Lake Tourist Center. Travelling at Taiwan is kinda easy as there are a lot of these travel center around the tourist place, it's a great place to source for tourist information, transport and accommodation.


In front of the Tourist Center is a row of shops.


There is nothing special on food at Sun Moon Lake. The most famous food is the lake fish called president fish(中统鱼), but the price is costly.
We stop by 7-11, TS brought the lunch box from Fencihu, and I brought another lunch box and we have our dinner in 7-11. TS lunch box taste as good as in Fencihu, but mine taste so so.

7-11special design t-shirt from Sun Moon Lake


The day become dark, we walk to the Shueishe Wharf(水社码头) to take some night views.

Here are some hotels in front of the Shueishe Wharf. It is so beautiful with the colorful lights.




On the wharf, there are some musical fountain performance. The mixture of lights, water the music just makes everyone so smoothing.

Shueishe Wharf night scenery which is full with yachts.