Meifeng Farm

After Taroko, our next stop was Meifeng Farm! In my opinion, this was the best accomodation because Meifeng Farm is situated in the mountains and the rooms were really spacious :)

This is the first morning at Meifeng when we hiked up Hehuan Mountain! I love mountains and coasts (who doesn't?) and the view was gorgeous.

Rose of Hehuan Mountain: alpine roses!!

Me & Ruby at a pitstop on the way up. It's so peaceful going up facing the rolling mountains and the clear blue sky :) we were lucky to have such a gorgeous day for hiking up Hehuan Mountain.

Top of the mountain @ 3416m above sea level :)

A lot of the taiwanese bring their dogs out for walks and most of them are little puppies but we met this cute goldie on the way! He doesn't want a kiss from me :(

aopi represent!

Spent the day hiking up a trails :) The feeling of conquering different peaks! A nice kind of tired

Got up early the next morning to go birdwatching! No photos because the birds are hard enough to see through the binoculars let alone get a photo of. I found a four-leaved clover along the way! It's my first time seeing clovers so I got really excited when I found a four-leaved one.

We toured around Meifeng farm after and went through the greenhouses where they had a huge variety of plants considering it's a farm. I loved how all the flowers were all in bloom and the variety of orchids in Taiwan! I thought Singapore had a lot of orchids especially because our national flower is an orchid but to see the different varieties in Taiwan is amazing :) 

Eating a begonia! We got to eat so many flowers & leaves. This begonia tastes sour but we also tried stevia which is a natural sweetener and petunias which taste almost like begonias.

The guide showed us how to make jewelry from cat's ears flowers and Hulda started putting on flowers on the guys. Here's Hulda making Baker a ring 

And Hulda trying to make Ben a leng zai. 

We also passed by the lavender fields which were filled with grasshoppers! So picturesque and smelled heavenly too 

Pretty Andria in the lavender fields :)

A plant with a fruiting body in the middle of its leaf! So weird and cool o.o

We also went to the dried flowers exhibition on the farm and it was so perfumed with all the dried flowers. Particularly enamored with this sand dollar which was made by drying the fruits and peeling the skins. I want to try this back home for my own room!

Group of us walked to a nearby village (sort of) after dinner and this is a restaurant on the mountains! SO COOL! each little tent is one table. I love the concept!

Ended the day off with an insect biodiversity course where we learnt a lot about moths and beetles.. I don't like insects very much but I have to admit they can be pretty beautiful. Especially this stag beetle which can look creepy but I like how their bodies are so shiny.