3 days R&R, 2 days guided tour and last day free and easy
1st day of R&R
On the way to our first stop, a theme park named 六福村
Entrance
Turkish ice cream... I got one for 60NT... kind of disappointed because I thought he would do some tricks like not letting you to take the ice cream =(
The 大怒神
Lunch Time
On the way to next stop, the 忠烈词 something like our Kranji memorial
Tourist taking photos with the guards... We were told that they do not move at all but I do catch them moving lol :P
Our turn to take photo with them
Into their memorial
The guards changing shift... They did some rifle performance and parade
After dinner was free and easy... Our plan was to go 东区 for the first night... Our first time taking the train in taiwan... They have the same scanning system as singapore but instead of standard tickets that we use, they use chip form... scan the chip to get through and drop the chip into the system at the destination...
We didn't stay too long at 东区 because they sell mostly female stuff... Their Sogo departmental store is like our Metro/Robinson in singapore... Therefore we head down to 西门町...
One of the famous store at 西门町, the 阿忠面线...
Some of the stuff I bought there...
2nd Day of R&R
On the way to 野柳
Underwater world...
The entrance for the 野柳公园 but I did not enter...It was said to have nice scenery inside with 2 女皇头 look alike rock...
Many tourist on the way in
Their 土产 there...all the dried food, cuttle fish, plums etc
Part of the tour package the dolphin,sea lion and divers performance
Next station is 九份
The long stretch of stairs up...There are shops along the stairs and at half way up to the top there is a long lane of shops selling souvenirs and food...
We reached the top and it is a school...
The 终合粉圆(mixture of green bean, red bean and peanut fen yuan)
A condom shop
Barbeque Mushroom
Scenery from one of the coffee house
On the way down
Dinner Time
Second night free and easy we decided to go to 士林夜市
Menu in one of the food store...
The fried oyster I ordered
The pig organs soup my friend ordered
The crowd at 士林夜市
They have priority seats on the train too but there are no one sitting on them unlike Singaporeans who will sit on them and sleep lol =/Another thing about their discipline is that they have to segregate rubbish unlike singapore whom throw everything and anything into one rubbish bin
3rd Day R&RLast day in Taiwan... Free and easy till 3.30pm and we were told that the shops do not open so early therefore we decided to head down to Taipei 101
We were there at around 10 and the shops were all closed... but we took a walk in there,the shops are all selling high end products similar to Ion orchard...
Ticket counter
Price list for the observatory tower
Lift up to the observatory tower
We didn't go up to the observatory tower because we think that there is nothing to see in the morning and the mist outside was thick therefore we decided to head down to 五分铺... Took a bus to the MRT station
First time taking their 公车
To our disappointment, it is like a ghost town at 五分铺...non of the shops were opened and we asked around and realised that it only open at 1pm...So we went around to look for some food for lunch... We walked for around 30min and couldn't find a single food store -_-"
After a long walk we finally settle down...
My 鸡扒面 set for 130NT...
My last meal in Taiwan... Damn expensive meal at Tao yuan international airport...It is a seafood noodle set, with sour plum soup, tofu, salted vegetable,noodles with a prawn, some green vege and 2 balls don't know made of what...cost 180NT for the meal... As the sour plum soup really sucks so i got a cup of 珍珠奶茶 and guess what,that small cup cost me 90NT so the whole meal cost around 13SGD and I ate only half the meal cause it really don't taste good -_-
Last photo before boarding the plane
Overall experience in Taiwan, it is a great place, we went during the spring season so the weather was great, food there was great too, we get to taste many food that we don't get to eat in singapore... People there are kind especially when they know we are singaporeans... Girls there are pretty and guys are good looking as well... There are many things that we didn't get to experience in the 3 short days so I would definitely want to go again :)
Some random pictures...
The 暖暖包 that save us from the cold weather during training :)
Good Bye Taiwan!
