HuaLian is a small seaside town about 2 hours south of TaiPei. Its not really a beach place but I hear its popular for surfing, not that we say anyone.
It's home to the largest night market in TaiWan and that is really saying something. It is set out in a T shape with nothing but food! The top of the T is a street about 100 meters long and it is 75% restaurants. Although restaurant is a little of a stretch. Its a huge tent full of benches, tables, upturned beer crates or mats. They were all placed very carefully behind the stall that served the food, it ended up a stripy chaos of seating with some of the best food I had on my whole trip. In general I was a little uninspired by Taiwanese cuisine. Maybe I have been living in the spicy capital of Yunnan too long, but I found everything either a bit bland or too sweet. HuaLian was the exception! We tried all sorts of weird and wonderful food. Wild boar and broccoli, Ostrich and spring onions and millions of prawns.
Other than food, we had plans to go to the Ocean Park. We know from google that it was somewhere nearby but that was about it. It turned out to be on a cliff just outside out town. I loved standing on various viewing platforms absorbing all of the blues and greens. Two colors which Kunming is seriously lacking!
The park itself is a cross between a small theme/water park and an aquarium. The rides weren't exactly adrenaline pounding but were fun. We enjoyed the pirate themes log flume the most, most because at the end we were covered in water, which cooled us off for an hour.Apart from the dolphin show, we didn't have a plan for the park, so instead several hours were spent just aimlessly wandering about the aquariums and occasionally jumping on a ride. All in all a god day was had!
The next day we got a train to the south of the island for Phase 3.
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