Wandering Fel

The culture village seems to embrace the culture of pirates i.e. One Piece. I am starting to wonder if this place should be called One Piece Land instead. 

If you do not know about One Piece, it's a very famous Japanese manga series about the journey of Luffy (the one with the straw hat) and his crew to become the Pirate King. The manga was so famous, it has been adapted into an anime and movie. The anime is pretty famous in Taiwan too and everyday it was aired on local TV at 6.30pm (chinese dubbed). 

You will see a lot of stamp booth like this one. A lot of Taiwan's tourist attractions have stamp booth. So if you happen to have a hobby of collecting stamp, you will have a lot of stamp to collect in Taiwan. 

The stamp looks pretty cool I admit. I do not have a stamp book though, so I stamped my receipt. XD

I want to ride Going Merry and embark on a journey to the seven seas~~~

There are a few rides inside the village, this one looks pretty awesome but you will be wet wherever you sit. We did not bring any clothes so we skipped this ride. Huhuhu.

I don't really see anything that sounds cultural here but since I love One Piece, this place is awesome! Hahaha. If you go deeper into the village, you can watch some cultural performances e.g. dance shows from the Aboriginal Taiwanese.

If you have enough fun here, you can take the One Piece cable car ride to Sun Moon Lake. 

There are two places that we want to visit in Nantou county, the first one is the Formosa Aboriginal Cultural Village (九族文化村/ Jiǔzú wénhuà cūn) and Sun Moon Lake (日月潭/ Rìyuètán). Both are located pretty near to each other and connected by cable car. In the bus counter at Taichung HSR station, you can buy the bus ticket together with the village entrance ticket + cable car ticket. The whole tickets cost 880NTD per pax.

We did not know which bus to take so we asked the ticket officer to let us know when the right bus is coming. And here comes our bus. 

The bus dropped us near the entrance gate to the village. And surprisingly, the Formosa Aboriginal Culture Village looks like..One Piece theme park from outside. For a second, we were wondering whether we were in Japan or Taiwan. XD

When we came in, we were even more surprised because it doesn't look like either Japan or Taiwan. The scenery here is more like European country. LOL.

Pretty European architecture spotted at the corner of the park. 

The lavender flowers are so pretty. Purple happens to be my favourite color too. ^^

From this Formosa Aboriginal Cultural Village, you don't have to take bus to reach Sun Moon Lake. You can simply take a cable car ride to reach Sun Moon Lake. So it may be better to play in this cultural village first before you make your way to Sun Moon Lake.

Well the cable car ride is pretty high, so my friend was already scared shitless even when the lake is nowhere in sight yet.

After saw enough green trees, we finally caught a glimpse of Sun Moon Lake from above. So beautiful! 

My friend shouted in joy when she saw the cable car station in a distance. I suppose this view gave her a comfort of reaching the ground soon. XD

Sun Moon Lake is a big lake so there is no way you can view the lake by walking around it. But, you can catch the Round-the-Lake bus to visit tourist spots around Sun Moon Lake. The bus stop is located in quite a distance from the cable car station. You have to walk around the car park to reach the entry gate for these cars and you will spot the bus sign across the street.

The cable car ride can only be taken from Formosa Aboriginal Culture Village , which is also known as One Piece Theme Park.