19th November 2014, Wednesday
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| Breakfast Place |
Today, we woke up super late..more later than yesterday..hehehe...We left the hotel at around 11 am plus but we managed to take our breakfast at the rice shop outside the metro station. The shop was busy as there were a lot of people queuing and luckily we managed to find a table to sit. The food was nice and yummy, and cheap too. We had a pork ribs with bitter gourd soup, braised pork rice and a braised egg. After eating we bought a red tea with milk next door, but it wasn't as nice as the one we bought on the 1st day. Then we made our way to Kaohsiung HSR station, to catch a cab to
Kenting. We had decided to go Kenting instead of Fu Guang Shan, as Kenting seems like a better place to go as many people had recommended it (even my dad was telling me to go Kenting and had said their aquarium is under the sea, not like ours).
Once we came out from the metro station at Kaohsiung main train station, there was a cab uncle approached us asking whether we are going to Kenting. He quoted me $350 per pax single way, then return trip was another $350 per pax. Return time just have to tell him first or call him, he will come pick up. So i agreed with the price, as previously i was quoted $400 per pax on the first day. But....the cab uncle wanted to get 2 more customers to come with us before we can leave. Alas, we waited for almost an hour before we can set out. The cab uncle initially told us to wait for 15 mins, then it was another
15 mins then another (i had to keep asking the uncle when we can
leave). We even went to the shopping mall nearby and walked around, and even heard 1 lady telling her friend that don't know where the cab uncle will bring them go if they were to board the cab when they were being approached. My friend said must be Singaporeans, always kiasi of this and that...hahaha... We actually had decided to wait until 1.30 pm, if the cab uncle still don't want to leave, we will head out to Fu Guang Shan instead (there was buses to Fu Guang Shan there too). But by 1.15 pm, the cab uncle came back with a Hong Kong couple and he told us to wait there while he picked up his cab. While waiting, we just chatted with the couple by telling them how happy we were..finally can leave already..and we even got to know that the cab uncle had actually charged them $400 per pax. So we just keep quiet on our charges.
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| Street of Kaohsiung |
And we were off to Kenting, but a little further away from the train station, the cab uncle stopped to pick up another family of 3 to go there too. So it was totally of 6 and half people on the cab, the little girl kept on singing and talking on the whole journey (don't even remember did she stop talking or singing for a while). And then it was a super long way to Kenting and going by the freeway...almost to 2 hours. And the cab uncle had to drop the family and the couple off their hotel first, so we were the last to alight. After dropping them off, the cab uncle asked me where we want to go..at first i asked him on the aquarium...he told me that the admission fee was expensive (forget how much already)...and he said don't want go there lah..Then he brought us up to the resting point for cabs and coaches, where we alighted and had agreed to go back to the same place at 6.30 pm. So we went ahead to walk around the place.
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| Kenting Beach |
By the time we started exploring the area was already 3 plus. So we just went to Kenting beach first and went and see the big waves. The waves were really big here and it was really sunny too. We saw 3 kids trying to do surfing too but they weren't successful on their tries. After relaxing on the beach, we went walking along the shops. Went to a souvenirs shop and bought some gifts back. Then we continued to walk down the road, but all the food shops were not opened yet. So it was kind of dead street....Then we just continued walking until we reached another beach, where we went down to take a look. Wanted to have some finger food at the cafe but the food needed 30 mins to prepare, which we didn't have much time to wait. So we just walked down to the beach, just nice to catch the sunset there. After that, we started to walk back to the resting place. By then, we can see all the food stalls and shops starting to get ready for business. We saw pizza vans, which were using real stove made of bricks to bake their pizzas. Went in to a Mexican restaurant to get some snack, had boxing chicken. It was very nice and crispy. But we were also greeted with mosquito there, even the beach had mosquito.
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| Wedding Couple |
There was a wedding couple standing in the middle of the road, waiting to have their photos taken but their photographer was doing something else. So they were like left standing there with all the cars trying to avoid them. It was quite dark too, although it was only before 6 pm. Everyone else was also trying to take a good photo of them. By the time we reached the pickup place, it was only 6pm and we were not able to find the cab uncle around. Then we were approached by another cab uncle who quoted us NT$400 per pax back to Kaohsiung. So we went aside and discussed on it, whether to wait for the morning cab uncle to come back to pick up or just go with this 1. But it was getting very cold outside and my friend doesn't want to just stay outside to wait, so we went ahead with this cab uncle. The cab uncle said he could bring us to Lu He night market and not other night markets, which was better for us. So i told the cab uncle to bring us to Lu He night market instead of the train station.
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| Crabs!! |
When we reached the night market, there was firework display, but didn't managed to see it. So we just had all our favorite snacks as our dinner here, crabs, papaya milk and corn....happy food... :)
After eating, we went back to the pet shop to look at the puppies again. This time we stayed a bit longer cos 2 puppies were actually fighting with each other. 1 of the puppies kept on biting on the other 1 until it snapped and fought back. But they looked so cute...hope they can find an owner soon, who can take care of the 2 of them together. After that, we walked slowly back to our hotel to rest..
Hotel Stayed: Holiday Hotel
Places Visited: Kenting
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