Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Taichung - Lavender Cottage 薰衣草森林

Lavender Cottage 薰衣草森林 - You might not find this in any tour book or recommend by any tour agent but if you google the place you get a thousand hit. Yoke Teng somehow stumble on it in a Taiwan tourism brochure, the minute she say the word 薰衣草森林 (Lavender forest) it sounded beautiful. We started googling about it, we found story on how The Lavender Cottage started as a dream of 2 Taiwanese city girls who wanted to have a romantic hideaway, the business had now expanded to other part of Taiwan. Here is the website you can get more info on Lavender Cottage 薰衣草森林. They also have facebook, they are really helpful in traveling detail. A note of interest is that Lavender Cottage 薰衣草森林 is located up in the mountain but there are other attraction to visit. If you take the shutter bus they provide, you can choose to get down at different location or you can hire a taxi and bargain the price.

Mailbox containing your wishes.....Me and Teng made our choice.

Walk around in the garden, there is lots of gadget to play around with.

The house with everything you need know about Lavender.

When we were there it was not full bloom season for Lavender, the lady in the picture look more like the lavender herself ha ha. but we can still see some....beautiful.

After all the walking we sat down for a Lavender ice cream each yum yum.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi,

Do you know how to get there from Fengjia Market? and any recommendations of places to visit in taichung?

Thanks!

fredashi@gmail.com

4DIME said...

hi Shi Freda if u go to their website

http://www.lavendercottage.com.tw/

they have free shutter bus to take u there, if I am not mistaken departure destination is from Taichung main train station....but we actually just hired a taxi because u can negotiate the price and ask to take u around more area which have other farm u can visit...strawberry and mushroom farm....if you do go to mushroom farm make sure u eat the mushroom hotpot...it is delicious...I didnt actually visit much of Taichung but I just went for the foods, which you can get at night market. also must try bubble tea, it is originally from there.

4DIME said...

Hi deceivingmyself .....
hi u can bargain with taxi driver...we were traveling in 5 so we bargain on how location he will take us, we paid around rm 40 per person for whole day trip...

Unknown said...

hi may i know what month did u visit Taichung ?
I am planning to go on January but not sure if the flowers are blooming. Thanks :)

4DIME said...

hi theresia marcellina
I went in November..... So it was almost the end of the season.... They say the flower bloom in around June july... U can email them or go to their site for more detail...