Day 1
Nothing much cos most of the day already spent on the plane and the car to our hotel... by the time we got to the hotel... it's already abt 5pm! So we rest for a while and decide our first stop.. it was 华西街夜市... cos it was near to our hotel.. but it turned to be there isn't much... It is more known for its speciality soups.. Snake and whatever u can find!! So we took a walk.. had some dessert (we haven't had dinner. haha) and we went off to somewhere else..
We stopped outside 龙山寺 to take some pictures... their temple very high tech one lor... outside got electronic belt of words running across the the main gate! and apparently after the whole trip.. we know that it was not the only one... and yet there are none like that in sg lor... hahaha! we like damn sua ku. lol. Then bought some bread from 85C cafe...
The very high tech temple with words scrolling across the main gate..
Then we decided to go to 士林夜市! Yeah! :))) First thing we got there... 鸡排!!! haha! Really a lot of ppl queuing up for it lor. But it really fast too... and dun need to worry cannot get it. sure can one. haha. then went to eat 棺材板. interesting concept. haha. it's actually just bread. fried can cut the top out... put in some ingredients and cover back. (like coffin). so ya.. i think that's how it got its name. and tried 芦荟柠檬 too.. nice and cooling.
After that... we went to shopping street... walk walk walk.... and we managed to catch the last train back to our hotel lor. haha! Didn't really buy much for the first day. But i already got myself a bag then.. Hee.
Went back to hotel.. bathe and slept. Tired liao.
Day 2
Qin's 2 other friends didn't want to wake up early.. so the 4 of us set out on our own first. :)
Went to 忠烈祠. it's a place to commemorate the soldiers who died in the wars and such. And the main attraction there was the guards changing shift 'ceremony'. It's very cool. They marched to to the center.. and 'played' with their rifle. now i understand why there's always ppl performing this kinda thing on taiwan tv. so they do have a job that requires them to do so. Anyways. Ya. cool. But then when they are in position already. Very kelian. Cannot move at all for 1h. and the gun position is like also have to be still... under the hot sun for some of them! so we actually saw their ppl helping the guard to wipe sweat and sprinkle water on their faces.
忠烈祠 almost time for the shift change... ppl are gathering ard to watch... a lot of procedure before the shift is completely taken over.
So after that.. we went on to the next destination - 故宫博物院. it is like one of the best museums in the world! And true enough it's really amazing. like so many things!!! totally shocked at the size of it. Spent quite a while to finish walking ard the whole place and collecting the chops. haha!
Like palace like that lor. very Big and nice!
Then we wanted to go 阳明山... but due to some weird taxi driver... we kinda got cheated and ended up nv go to wherever place we wanted to go. but fine. Nvm. luckily the cab fare wasn't expensive. or rather we didn't want to pay so much cos it wasn't our fault in the first place. but whatever it is. we carried on to the next destination - 淡水!! :)
淡水老街 has quite a lot of things to shop for too. we meet up with the other 2 there. We separated up for the shopping after eating the tall tall jumbo ice-cream. hee. after that took the ferry to 渔人码头. woah... nice view esp at night.. nice bridge. haha! went up to 情人桥 and took quite a no. of photos.. some quite stupid/funny. haha!
Us and 情人橋 just before we left the place. very nice view of the bridge at night. :)
Then we decided to go back to 士林夜市 again. haha! :) But the 3 nurses bought so many things (mostly snacks for colleagues and friends) that they had to go back hotel to put things before coming out again. So da-jie and i went to eat and shop first. Hee. This time bought more things. Shoes! got nice and comfortable shoes... should have bought more colours man. haha! cos like quite easily wear off. esp. wore by me. hee. Food we tried: 蚝煎, 卤肉饭，泡泡茶. and i can't rmb already. =P And we also saw the police raid the place... so the vendors in the middle of the road just kept their things quickly and went to the side to wait. after that still went back to their respective spots. haha. funny.
Ya.. that marks the 2nd day... we went back slightly later... but not very late cos we had to catch the train early next morning. still.. had to catch a cab back to hotel cos no more mrt. not very ex thou. :)
Day 3
Catch a train to 花莲 at 7am. Wah... really tiring.. all of us were catching some sleep on the train... while ah qin had her evil thoughts to take sleeping pictures of us. dots. notti girl. Anyway... the train took 3hours to reach hualien. so it's really... very long and tiring trip. we ate the Dunkin' Donuts we bought the day before at 淡水 for breakfast. Yum. :)
When we reached there.. we were greeted by our guide Mr. Loo. Err... ok. he's Mr. (young) Loo. hahaha! Erm... i actually can't rmb his name already. hahaha. memory failing me. =x So anyway the guide is really nice.. Thanks to qin's friend for giving us the contact.. and thank goodness we made the decision to go to 花莲! it was really a very fun day. Even though we like walked a lot. and gotten a lot of sunlight too. haha!
Sea and Sky is love. :)
Yup. went to 太鲁阁... which is like a national park... consisting of many attractions... 清水断崖，砂卡砀步道，九曲洞，燕子口，白杨步道. Every single one has their own values to the trip. Like 九曲洞，we actually have to wear safety helmet to walk through the whole path... why? Cos the cave sometimes has falling rocks and well... apparently someone from China Mainland got hit on the head by the rocks. erm. ya. Very suay person. That's was only starting of this year or something like that. well.. they didn't open up their tourism to Taiwan long ago right. so can agar the timing. And so everyone has to wear the helmet for safety reason lor. And we look so funny like at a construction site. haha!
Then the deemed most fun one was 白杨步道... which leads us to 水帘洞. Damn fun. Although had to walk like quite a dist before reaching... it was all worth it. Not sure if anyone else were as crazy as us to go in twice. Once or twice also all wet already. might as well right? haha! Yea... so as good as it is... we were all drenched by the end of the day. And tired too. But shiok to get the water pounding on ur head and back like massage. hahaha. hydro-massage.. Heh.
Think this was the first time we went in.. Not SO wet yet. but wet liao lah.
Just before we get on the car to leave the place... Tired but contented. :)))
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