第七天&第八天：国立国父纪念馆—中正纪念馆—台北101—西门町—淡水码头

Second last day at Taiwan. It’s quite a rush day because we were going to many places. The first place we went was Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (国父纪念馆). We took Taipei MRT and stop at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Station (國父紀念館捷运站). We spent 1 hour and half to go thorugh this big exhibitions on the hall.

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館). Very very big memorial building!

Entrance of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館)

Could you read the Chinese word written above?

Model of building structure of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館) 1

Model of building structure of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館) 2

Model of building structure of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館) 3

Model of building structure of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館) 4

Marching process were shown in photos below. Every hour, there would have marching & replacement of two “soldiers” standing there. It’s quite hard because they cannot wink in a hour.

Taipei 101 (101大楼) is a landmark skyscraper located in Taipei. It is reachable via MRT Taipei City Hall station (市政府站) and there are free shuttle bus to Taipei 101. We didn’t went up the tower to view the skyview because the ticket is too expensive. We just walking around to catch a beautiful picture of the tower.

Taipei 101 (101大楼)

Tower behind us is Taipei 101. We captured from Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (國父紀念館)

Taipei City Hall (台北市政府). It’s just near to Taipei 101.

At about 12pm, we went to Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (中正纪念堂). We took the MRT to the CKS Memorial Hall Station (中正纪念堂捷运站). Several huge building around the area.

Behind us is Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (中正纪念馆) (far shot)

close shot

自由广场

View from 中正纪念馆

You will see marching also in close distance every hour.

Model of building structure of  Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (中正纪念馆) 1

Model of building structure of  Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (中正纪念馆) 2

We were lucky on that day because we could see the marching & performance rehearse in 自由广场.

Took several shots with this “Army Toy”, “Air-force Toy”, “Navy Toy”.

After that we took Taipei MRT to 西门町 where it’s a lot of things we can buy here.

大雕烧(NT$50). It’s really look like male organ. Don’t be shy when you eat it! Don’t think much…it’s just a food.. ahaha…

可丽饼 (NT$ 65)… Hmm… really nice to eat…

After whole day visited many places, we went to DanShui Old Street (淡水老街) at night. We took the MRT to the northern end at Danshui Station. The DanShui Old Street is just beside the MRT station. As I know, this night market is smaller compare to Shilin Night Market in terms of shopping and food. Because we were running out of time, we directly took a bus from the Danshui MRT Station to the Fisherman’s Wharf (渔人码头). There are boat/ferry service available too but it’s too late.

Finally we reached famous Fisherman’s Wharf aka the “Lover’s Bridge”. Many people say it’s a romantic place for dating. Haha…not us o…Around the river, there are a boardwalk, chic coffee shops, foods and some seafood restaurants. We bought some food & drink & sit there to enjoy the night view of the Fisherman’s Wharf.

Our supper on that night after coming back from Fisherman’s Wharf

Day 8, the last day at Taiwan.

We didn’t visit anywhere else, sleep until time and pack and went to the Airport. We weren’t too exhausted on the long trip.

Taoyuan International Airport Entrance

Our flight Airasia…haha…

We took 9.55am flight fly back to our lovely Malaysia^^It’s such a memorable long & far trip to Taiwan.

第六天：九份老街—黄金博物园区

We woke up late in the morning & having our breakfast just near our homestay. After that, we took Taipei MRT from Jiantan (劍潭) to Zhongxiao Fuxing, Exit 1(忠孝复兴站1号出口) and then took基隆客运 #1062 to Jiufen Old Street (九份老街)「台北-中山高-瑞芳-(九份)-金瓜石」线到九份. It took about 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours & ticket price cost NT$80 to NT$90. Jiufen is a small town in north Taiwan & wonderful place to visit if you love the architectural of old buildings & old street markets. It was once a famous gold mining town but now a tourist attraction. You can see a lot of lovely things that are so cute & unique. We arrived at Jiufen Old Street at about 11.30am.

Entrance of the Jiufen Old Street

Building of Jiufen

Short distance view from Jiufen (Fog made it difficult for us to see clear town)

Long distance view from Jiufen

Building and structure of Jiufen Old Street

芋仔蕃薯(small hole connect to other side)

There is so much interesting stuff to see and walk at Jiufen^^

The food we ate at Jiufen Old Street: 1.) 阿婆芋圆 2.) 九份红糟肉圆 3.) 鲁肉饭+鱼丸 4.) 花生卷+冰淇淋

After that we took (基隆-金瓜石) bus to Gold Ecological Park (黄金博物园区).  At about 2.35pm we arrived at Gold Ecological Park entrance.  We managed to go四連棟，金瓜石太子賓館 & 黃金館.

Entrance of Gold Ecological Park (黄金博物园区)

四連棟

Market price of 220kg gold brick today: NT$ 310957636. (NT$1406 per gram)

It’s impossible to take it up except you have robot hands.

Below three photos are the view from Gold Ecological Park:

運金獸傳說

At night, we walked nearby Fatima qhome homestay for “hunting” food that suggested by our homestay lady.

Day Six complete^^

第五天:清境柏克莱景观民宿—小瑞士花园—水蜜桃园—台北(士林夜市)

In the morning, we went to 台中火车站 by taxi.It was directly fetch us from 清境柏克莱景观民宿 to 台中火车站. The taxi fare was NT$200 per person. On the way to 台中火车站, we stopped at 小瑞士花园  & 樱子园.
清境柏克莱景观民宿

We reached 小瑞士花园 at about 9.30 am. Unfortunately, we were unlucky on that day because raining in the morning and we were unable to enter the flower farm. Below are the pictures that we captured in 小瑞士花园 but not in flower farm.

小瑞士门市

Dutch Windmill

蜜蜂故事六号馆

“Kawaii” Bee

Guide about “How to differentiate pure honey & not pure honey” board.

Busy made their own “creative card”

Front view of  纸箱故事六号馆

Product of 纸箱故事六号馆

Captured photos inside of 纸箱故事六号馆

Captured photos outside of 纸箱故事六号馆

On the way to 水蜜桃园, we stopped at one of the station where you can see a nice view

Mountains at 清境农场

Combination of mountains, lake & cloud

After that, we went to 水蜜桃园 where you can pick peach as much as you want. But remember, you need to buy the peach that you picked. Don’t picked so much yo…haha…

Peach Tree

At about 11.30 am, we headed to 台中火车站. We reached at 1.00 pm. After that, we took 1.33 pm 自强号railway train from Taichong Train Station (台中火車站) to Taipei Train Station (台北火車站) and arrive at 3.50 pm. Train ticket cost us NT$375 per person.  We check in at fatima qhome . Website: http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/fatimaqhome/. It’s nice & cost us NT$1600 per night for 4 persons. We booked for 3 nights. It’s located beside bai-lin bridge &  shih-lin district. The homestay is near shih-lin night market & Jian-tan MRT station. It’s easier to just take the bus to Jian-tan MRT(NT$15)  about 5 minutes.

Bus No. where you can take near fatima qhome building:

246= 台北車站(台灣故事館) 西門町 大同大學(婚紗大街),

9 =  捷運西門站 龍山寺(艋舺,華西街夜市) 台北地下街,

紅10=捷運士林站 捷運劍潭站 士林夜市

紅15=天母站(sogo百貨,天母二手市集) 捷運士林站, 陽明醫院(誠品書局,大葉高島屋,華納威秀,新光三越)

508= 捷運芝山站(sogo百貨) 磺溪, 陽明山溫泉

669= 光華商場, 微風廣場, 京華城, 市政府(room18夜店), 世貿館,101大樓,  市民敦化(luxy夜店), 市民延吉街(忠孝東路), 市民光復(國父紀念館),

811= 迪化街(年貨大街),捷運民權西路(機場巴士),

255= 故宮博物院, 士林官邸, 國道客運台北總站(機場巴士), 圓環,後火車站,

Ticket price （台中火车站  to 台北火车站）

Long queue to buy 豪大大鸡排

The food we eat in Shilin Night Market: 1.) 蚵仔煎 2.)….. 3.) 阿宗面线  4.) 豪大大鸡排 5.) 香肠  6.) ….. 7.) 火车便当(Tis one nt in Shilin Night Market) 8.) ….

Day 5 Complete^^