We made a plan to visit the Maokong tea plantations. The way you get to the plantations is by riding on a gondola.
The line was pretty brutal so we took the crystal cabin. The crystals are gondolas with glass for the bottom. That means you can see through the floor all the way to the ground below you. I am afraid of heights so I didn't exactly jump in happiness at the idea.
When we got on the gondola we could see lots of stalks of bamboo and even all the way to Taipei 101 (the tallest building in the city, kind of like Taipei's Space Needle).
When we got to the top of the mountain we saw a lot of tea bushes. There were fields and fields of them! We climbed the mountain and came back down.
We had lunch (chicken soup) and bought ice cream. The ice cream was good but the wind kept blowing dust into our cones so we had to turn our backs to the wind. My ice cream got so dirty that my dad had to clean it off for me!
I would recommend the tea plantations as a good place to visit because the gondola is fun, the food at the top is great, and the energy of the mountains is exciting. As a note to cat lovers, there are stray cats there that love when you pet them. Natalie was in heaven...
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