WARNING! WARNING! This post will be long, NOT for the weak hearted! :p
Day 1Full of excitment, can't wait to go to Taiwan after the exam war. Took lots of snapshots on the plane! hee..
Snapshot! yeah!
The clouds is so beautiful!
Finally! Finally! Finally, reach Taiwan lor! Yeah yeah! Time to ENJOY and RELAX!
Snapshot again at Taiwan airport! :p
Waiting for the bus to fetch us to our hotel
The hotel is along the street, look quite small from the outside, but when you went into the room.... WOW! One word -
Beautiful! On the bed got this cute little heart pillow! lolz... The best thing is the hotel is only 100 meter to Ximending(Their Orchard road).
Without further ado, after we put our bag, we went on to the MRT to the famous Shilin Night Market! Taiwanese is very discipline, all of them queue up along the line to board the train, no rushing and pushing, really is "Class".
Queuing up to board the train
Snapshot on the train!
Alright manz! Finally can eat our dinner after a long journey to Taiwan. Shilin Night Market is the place!
Eat until full then we took the last train back to start planning for tomorrow journey!
Day 2Wake up early in the morning to took a bus to Yeliu(Some rock formation).. Had some meatballs and fishcake for our breakfast while waiting for the bus..
The bus journey took 1 hour++ lor.. shag, so bo liao we took some snapshot on the bus..
Finally reach Yeliu! The rock formation which I thought I only able to see in my geography textbook appear in front of my own eyes! It is Beautiful, beyond words to describe it..
After this shag long walk along the rocks, it's time for lunch! So we head to Jiufen, one of the famous tourist attraction in Taiwan..
Entrance of Jiufen
The famous store in jiufen selling fishballs
Snapshot while waiting for lunch
Our lunch! Mixed balls soup, duck feet, pig head skin, miced meat rice and wined chicken!
This funny lady selling food
More Food!
The super longgggggggg stair in Jiufen
Some kinda of yam balls
A store making human face mask, damn scary
A old building in Jiufen
Dinner time soon, so we took a bus to Keelung's Miao Kou Night Market.. A Market just outside the temple.
At Miao Kou Night Market, all the food store at just along the street! ahhh.. HUNGRY!
This is the temple where it get its name from
Our dinner! Chicken's stem
Pig's trotters
Crab meat soup! Is real crab meat lor! zai 1
More Food!
More Eggs!
Sausage..
Ice cream!
Took a train back to taipei...
Is quite late but we still decide to go try on the KTV in Taiwan! Their KTV zai 1 lor.. Is 1 whole building for the ktv and got toilet in each room some more! damn zai!
Partyworld!
Their LCD TV is solid
In the room
Singing like a Superstar! lolz
Ah!
In the main lobby
Nice singing experience in Taiwan. Although their controller is all in chinese, but we figure out how to use after a while. Most of all, after you finish singing, it will rate you on how good or bad u sing. lolz.. damn funny..
Day 3Had our breakfast at a store nearby our holiday, ate some xiao long bao and leng mian(cold noodle)..
After that, we head to Beitou to had my first hot spring experience! wow, the water really damn hot lor.. have to move slowly into the water and you can feel your blood moving when your body is inside the water, damn SHIOK!
We took quite a lot photos there but we are naked, so some photos cannot be shown.. haha...
After it, we head to Tian Mu(some shopping area which sell rejected branded goods) and had our lunch at this cute PuPu cafe. Lots of retro cars...
At Tian Mu 777, lucky 7!
PuPu
Acting cool!
Yummy!
Ivan's Steak! damn nice
3 of us enjoying
After that, took a walk along Tian Mu, don't really have nice clothes bah.. then rush off to Dan Shui Old Street to take a ferry boat to Fisherman's Wrath Lover Bridge. If you got watch Taiwan's drama, you should seem this place a lot of time. This is a famous place for the drama.
After watch the sunset at the Lover bridge, took the ferry back and walk around Dian Shui Old Street.
Day 4Yeah! Went Leofoo Village(their amusement park) in the morning. Alrite manz, the rides not really exciting, except for 1 which really makes me damn high! So, we went to took the ride twice before it close! :p
At the entrance
The ticket to excitement!
Taken while having a ride
At the top of the pirates ship
Round and round and round!
Fake waterfall.. lol
Snapshots
Nice Castle
After a boring day, went to Wufenpu! This is where my life started! It's SHOPPING TIME! This place is
10 times the size of Bugis lor! Walk until we tired but still continue to walk until the shops are closing, no choice haf to go back at 1am.. lolz
Day 5Went early to Guang Hua Guan Chang(like Sim Lim Square). Not much there, price all around the same as Sim Lim Sq..
Eat Beef Noodle at a street near there.. Nice but very big potion, cannot find everything. Somemore we ordered small bowl only lor.. Can't imagine how big is the BIG BOWL.. lolz
After breakfast, took train to the tallest building in Taiwan! Taipei 101! really high lor.. The lift is one of the fastest lift I ever took, from 5th storey to 89th storey only took 35 second! fast, right? There is a shopping center, but it is like paragon, all expensive stuffs, not for me..
This ball stable the whole 101 storey building from earthquake
Taipei 101 is really a place of art. The building is already an art and they have display of all these coral reef craving, nice but come with a price, expensive..
After viewing the scenery from 89th floor, we went on to the departmental store beside it, New York New York. Ate some donuts from a long-queue famous donut store, Mister Donut, actually this store can be found at most of the place but everywhere also long queue, don't know why. Other than that, nothing much in the departmental store.
Went on to a dessert shop open by Jacky Wu. Tang Chao. Not bad, quite nice and it is just beside the MRT entrance.
Then walk along Zhong Xiao Dunhua, found Omni, jay chou shop but nothing much.. Went to Myramma Shopping Center to sit the Ferris Wheel! Is cool but too fast finish le.. only around 20 minutes.
After this, went back to Shilin Night Market again for more FOOD! Hungry!
Day 6Went around Ximending, found duck's tougue and tried it. We went on to eat Ye Rou Bian(Duck) for breakfast and ah zong mee sua.
Saw S.H.E at Ximending! Hooray! They are having autograph session there. Their fans really damn guai lor. Sit there orderly, damn good. S.H.E is damn cute!
Not only S.H.E, saw Ming Dao there advertising for his new drama, but their fans not as much..
Went to maid restaurant to had lunch, too bad they dont allow us to take pictures inside, so only can take at outside. The waitress all dress as maid and will call you "zun ren", master.. damn song! haha
Went to Taipei Station underground mall after that, nothing much there.
Went to Hua Xi Night Market, the night market is famous for killing snake and eat snake. A pity that I can't get to eat it.
This few food is too little for us so we went back to Ximending to haf 2nd round! had our meal at this nice cafe. 2nd storey with nice view
and more games of basketball!
Day 7Woke up at 5am to catch the early train to go Hualien. Tired and Sleepy. But after the experience we had in Hualien, all is worthwell!
Sleepy look on the train
Reach Hualien! Hooray! We rent a cab for NT$2000 for the whole day.. The driver bring us to eat some white corn and purple sweet potato. The sweet potato is nice but corn alright bah.
1st Stop: Taroko
Had lunch at the bottom of Taroko.. The kampung chicken is damn nice!
Waiting for lunch
Our lunch!
After that, the driver drove us to some beach to see the sea.. Nothing much..
After that, went on to had some more snacks! Black Tuna and Fishball! yummy!
Time to take a little break back at the ming shu, Shi Tou Zhi Jia(House of Stone).. There is a big field behind it. It is
Super Beautiful and the auntie is super friendly.. recommend it if u going Hualien..
After refreshing, we went on to had our dinner and took some photos at the center of the Hualien.
Had this famous porkrib noodle for dinner
The center of the Hua Lien
After that, the hostel auntie bring us to watch some tribal dancing. Taiwan haf 100++ tribes, this is the 2nd biggest in Taiwan. Really an eye opener.
After that, this is where the fun part comes! We bought firework and play! hooray! like watching NDP like that, but the firework is lighten up with our own hands! so SHIOK!
One last photo before we spend the night at the hostel...
Day 8Wake up early to get ready for River Rafting! hooray!
Collect back the stone we drawn yesterday night
Last Shot for the Hostel
After that, we are on our way to river rafting! Not really exciting compare to my army experience. The water is a bit too shallow at some part. Can't really take photos because don't want the camera to soak in water haha..
At the Halfway line taking a break
The river and boats
Took a train back to Taipei after 2 wonderful day at Hua Lien. Reach Taipei at quite late liao. Went to the Night Market opposite their National Taiwan University for dinner. It's pretty small, nothing much to take photos.
Dinner! Da Chang Mee Sua and Si Sheng Tang
This 1 is nice, but I forgot its name
Back to play some more basketball and doll catching machine near the hotel after that. Win quite a number of dolls.. haha...
Day 9Wake up late went to the food store beside our hotel to get our breakfast? lunch? brunch! haha..
Went to Taipei main station shopping mall to see see look look.. Not much things, in the end, we end up playing basketball and catch dolls
Our highest score!
This kinda of shops is everywhere in Taipei
Hotdog from 7-11
Went on to Wufenpu to shop again, and had some beancurd for snack. After that went to Raohe Night Market. Tasted Pepper Biscuit and Smelly Beancurd Soup. Nice! Not forgetting catching dolls again! lol
Went back early.. haiz.. to go CLUBBING! haha.. Went to their famous club in Taipei - Luxy!
After clubbing, went to this hong kong dim sum restaurant to haf a bite for some dim sum! Seriously speaking, Singapore 1 taste better. haha..
Shag after dancing, went back hotel to rest for the last night in Taiwan... =(
Day 10Went to the store beside our hotel to had breakfast. Our Last Breakfast! Must order Oyster Omettlet, this is the best food I ate in Taiwan!
Did some last minute shopping around Ximending area.
After that, head for the airport!
At the airport
On the plane
On the plane playing daidee
Bye bye Taiwan! I will miss you!
