Saturday, May 31, 2008

台湾之旅 - 1. 交通篇 / Transportation

台湾之旅 - 1. 交通篇 / Transportation


1) AIRPLANE
Our Cathay Pacific plane to Taipei via Hong Kong. Food's quite good! Rather turbulent sia..



2) FREEGO BUS
The interior of the Freego bus 飞狗, to bring us from Taoyuan Airport to Ximending area, where our hotel is located. Very comfortable seats.
two-way ticket: NT 120




3) TAIPEI METRO
Interior of the Taipei Metro. Thought the seat arrangment was interesting. Like the fact that there are plenty of handgrips, 3 rows in total.





Impressed with the presence of "priority seats" 博爱位 reserved for elderly, pregnant women etc... very obvious, and lots of big big signs. Many people usually don't take up such seats.



Also like the LED display system, indicating what stations the train will stop at, as well as the present stop.







4) TAIPEI BUS ( 客运)
The "destination" ticket card, which we have to return to the driver upon alighting. We took the 新店客运 from 乌来 to 公馆. NT 57. Such buses usually require paying by coins. Not sure if can use the Easycard 悠游卡 (similar to our EZlink card).

5) TAIWAN RAILWAY
Tzi Chiang 自强 train (fastest of the 3, and most ex)





interior of Tzi Chiang train. comfortable la. got toilet also, which is clean!



typical railway train ticket








6) ALISHAN FOREST RAILWAY
1 of the 3 mountaineering railways in the world. very cute old steam locomotive .




the 阿里山 train ticket ( 嘉义 - 奋起湖)





the train ticket (阿里山 - 祝山) to watch sunrise. train departs at 4.30am!





7) TAIWAN HIGH SPEED RAIL

the high speed rail station at Chiayi - just like an airport terminal hehe... nice nice..




the front of the train, quite high-tech looking haha..





inside the high speed rail train. like airplane!




the high speed rail train ticket. nicely designed hehe..




the seat pocket, also like airplane. there's high speed rail lunch set 高铁便当 too.. but very expensive..

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