30th November 2014, Sunday
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| Qixing Bus Stop |
Today, we were supposed to wake up early and go to Jiu Fen and Shi Fen area but we 2 ended up getting up almost to 10 plus...getting super tired already...hahaha...So i told my friend just go to
yangmingshan instead, as it was nearer. We got up to get ready and made our way to Jiantan Station to take the red 5 bus to go up. It was almost to 1 pm when we finally reached the national park. Then we changed to bus number 108 to go to the attractions around the park. We wanted to go to the waterfall stop, which was the further up. But the bus we got on was like only going half of the route and there were only single seats in the mini bus, most of the people have to stand and it was round and round up the mountain roads. It was damn bumpy too..We got off at Mount. Qixing bus stop and we were like stranded at nowhere again....hahahaa
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| Mountain 'Smoking' |
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| Boiling Water |
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| Fried Sweet Potato..Must Try!!! |
So we just took the round Mt. Qixing Trail to walk to Xiaoyoukeng (小油坑), where there is 'smoke' coming out from the mountain...hehheehe.....It was stairs and stairs again, i really not feeling the mood and energy to do the hiking trails anymore. We were too tired....Once we reached xiaoyoukeng, we just went and see the 'smoke' coming from the volcanic pit on the mountain...There was a puddle of boiling water at the side too. And there was a very strong nasty smell too. After this, we went to the bus stop to catch the bus again. This time the bus was going up to the waterfall, and we had to stand on the bus. It was so hard to keep balance when the bus was going up the road and rocking from left to right. We passed by some bus stops on the top and we saw the people queuing to take the bus....is super super long....and it was like around 3 plus. And the further up we went, the more people we see at the bus stop. So we just decided we better don't alight the bus, if not, we won't be able to get back on the bus later on. There was even a point where the road was jammed with cars on both sides of the traffic. When we reached back to the bus terminal, it was about 3 plus. There was a food stall opening and we went to grab some food as we haven't had lunch yet. Most of the dishes were sold out too. The fried sweet potato snacks was the best of all we ordered...hahaha...even my friend likes it...we ordered 2 plates of it.
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| Gates of Yang Ming Shan |
After that, there was a walking trail to yangming park. So we just walked slowly that trail and we didn't reach the park too...hahaa...it was like super far and we don't want to end up having no bus back again. So we took a bus back to the bus terminal and then we bought a packet of oranges from the side stalls too. The auntie was telling us 1 packet of 5 oranges costs NT$50 and there were own grown, very sweet. Those bigger ones were NT$50 each....The auntie didn't lie to us, the oranges were really sweet!! Sweeter than the ones we bought at Guanziling....After that, we queued to take the red 5 bus back to Jiantan station. After we came down to the station, we made our way to Shilin Night Market. It was different from my first visit, all the food stalls are along the road. As we were still full, we went abit of shopping first....hehehee...Then we just kept walking further in until we saw interesting food and then we will stop and buy back. There was a cake stall inside the market too, which was having long queue. So we went and buy 1 box too, similar to the one we bought from Tainan. But It wasn't so nice as the one we bought in Tainan. I would recommend to buy the one from Tainan instead of this one.... :P...It was quite crowded as we went in further and worse still, we both need to find restrooms.....
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| Super Big Sausages |
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| Nice Nice Chicken Cutlet |
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| Cute Dragon Design |
Then i saw a Stay Real shop there (cannot help not going in the shop..hahaha), so i went in and asked whether the designs my friend (working in KL) wanted are available...hohohoho...1 design was worldwide out of stock and the other is selling only in Japan stores. Before we exited the shop, my friend pointed to me one design which she said it was cute too and asked me to take photo and go back ask my friend. Then we went to find restrooms but ended up walking to the next metro station. As we wanted to go back to the hotel, so we went into the station and the restrooms were inside (after the gates). After that, we took the metro back to Jiantan station and went back to the night market again. This time, we just went to buy the food we wanted to eat (got potato with cheese and chicken cutlet which was fried and then grilled). Then we took the metro back to the hotel, where we had our snacks. The potato with cheese wasn't as nice as the one i bought at Tainan. Here the potato was fried instead of baked...but it was a popular stall in Taipei...(later i saw the same stall in one of the alleys at Ximending too)....hohoho...Once back in hotel, i connected wi-fi and messaged my friend to let her know on the bad news and also showed her the one we took photo in the shop. She said she wanted that, so i went to the rock coco (which was also under stay real) branch in Ximending and helped her check on that design. Again, they don't have the stock anymore and the only store still having the stock was in Banqiao, which i didn't know where was it and i thought there wasn't enough time for us to travel there to buy the next day too. So i didn't ask the staff to help us reserve the shirt in that branch. I wanted to get one shirt for my friend, as she will be very disappointed if i going to tell her the bad news again. But that branch was too small and i didn't find a design that she will like. So we went back to the hotel.....and continue eating my potato and chicken cutlet....
Hotel Stayed: Rainbow Hotel
Places Visited:
Yang Ming Shan
Shilin Night Market
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