Friday, November 22, 2013

Destination 6.1.5 : 清境的逢甲夜市裡日日月月數喬巴 it's Fengjia Nightmarket + Nantou

LAST POST for my Taiwan trip 2012
But I'm still having 3 more topic to post for Vietnam, Europe & Malaysia
+ upcoming 2 more trips in 2013...
OMG OMG OMG
I should close this 1st

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The last area I write about is somewhere around the center of taiwan
There's mainly 2 places we visited here
for 2 days 2 nights

This was the place we overnight while we were on our way to Nantou

This is the best night market that I've ever visited
Yes!!! it's even better than Shilin Night Market


I'm so sorry to say that
this is all about food stall spamming
all the stall listed here are good
so everything i tried that night were all good
(I'm not gonna describe each food I ate)

Well, actually I didn't know which are nice and which are not
We just went for those stall with long queue + delicious looking
Duration to spend here is whole evening because it's so damn long
with lotsa alleys and people

Opps... I still haven't mentioned the name of this market
it's Fengjia night market 逢甲夜市
named after the university next to it

Here comes the food stall spamming
Just the picture of the stall as we were busy eating after we got the food :P







And I don't really know how am I going to translate these food into english LOL
Just leave it as it is.
There's still lots of shops for fashion around,
but those are not really cheap

Oh... almost forgot
we dropped by a very famous chocolate shop while we're on our way to Fengjia
hmmmm... i'm not sure where is this place
but i'm sure that lot of taiwanese would know this shop
18̊C Handmade chocolate


They're not as good as Neuhaus
but I personally like their liquor truffle



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Next...
The very famous Sun Moon Lake
 日月潭
We just dropped by a while for scenery

on our way to One Piece Theme Park
Opps... it should be the Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village
九族文化村


This is the entrance but this wasn't where we enter.
We entered from the other entrance where is above the hill.
Then you can take the cable car back to this entrance.


From the other entrance through cable car,
you can see the whole sun moon lake


Then you can have cable car transit once you reached the village.
The transit is directly to the theme park from village. 
So, we started from the theme park and back to the village after that.

To every One Piece fans out there, this is your heaven.
Actually the amusement ride is not about One Piece...
It's just the statues they placed in the theme park
We took more photos than riding in ride. 


with Flying Merry Go

surrounded by Strawhat crew

Baratie Restaurant by Sanji :D

and lots more...

Don't forget to return for the culture village
You may take the cable car up again
and walk down the hill along the village

There's also a stage for cultural performance
It'll take you around 20 mins to just walk down the hill
excluded time for photo

Out of the entrance
there's a really nice garden there

of course we spent whole day here
just to take photos

reward of the day...
Full of One Piece merchandises...


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Phew... the final attraction of my Taiwan trip in year 2012

Let's go for sheep count in Cingjing Farm, 清境農場


This place has a lot of sheep running free
so you'll see a lot of shit on the ground too
They might eat your stuff if you're leaving them unattended

There's 3 shows available here
Sheep show (not strip), horse riding stunt and clown show
Please check the schedule at the entrance before you enter.

This place is kinda wide and sunny
It's quite a walking distance from one place to another

You can walk up the hill to feed them or buy souvenirs

Horse stunt?
It's the other side of the field
and clown show is somewhere nearby to this
just a bit more deep inside

Since it's a long way here
Of course you shouldn't miss the nice scenery along
No photoshop is done to this... haha

It's just so not us if we leave without any relaxing time
Actually we saw a very nice building on our way there
It's something like a hotel

We thought that we could get high tea here
but couldn't

so...
we went to the other hotel that serve hi-tea buffet

Nicely designed hotel (forgot the name)
the restaurant named The Old England
the environment is nice and look vintage
but the hi tea was just so so
good place to relax but not for food


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Well that's all on how I spent my trip out of Taipei
and this would be my last post for my Taiwan trip 2012.

It's for sure that we'll return to Taiwan again
mostly will be south of it
with least priority as there's still lots of counties to visit

Next post will be about my Ho Chi Minh trip with the awesome gang
I spent less than RM1k in that trip (everything inclusive)

ciao.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Destination 6.1.4 : Taipei Outskirts

It's such a sad case that what i wrote was gone and i need to redo everything again...
But this time will be a very brief one since i don't have the mood for it anymore
(please ignore the alignment)

So all the locations listed here couldn't be reached by MRT.
We rented a daily cab and went around these places.
It took us around 2 days to visit these places
So you need to plan yours

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Yehliu 野柳 geopark
I guess lot of people know this place
A place full of hmmm... rocks?

The famous one of course is this
Queen's Head

Spending an hour here should be quite enough under the hot sunny day.

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After this, we straightaway left to
Jiufen Old Street 九份老街
This place is damn nice
as the building design is so chinese
and the arrangement is very unique along the hill
This is one of my most favorite places in Taiwan

Stair surrounded by buildings
and of cuz...
Full of shops & restaurants
!!! FOOD !!!
Traditional fishball restaurant
Stewed pork rice with stewed egg
But we had this due to my very traditional daddy
Our lunch
Oh... you can't miss this in Jiufen
Taro ball ice
That is so nice till the dog also wanna eat it

I personally recommendation
Leave this place after the sun is down
I believe that the lighting here would be fabulous
Just imagine when the lanterns are turned on
How nice would it be


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Where else that's close enough

Gold mine
There's a gold museum that's really close to the Jiufen old street
(not by walking distance)
I guess it's more like a park with some old residence to visit
And
You may touch

1,678kg of gold brick
that cost 369m NTD (in Sept 2012)

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After 9 would be 10
The other hill next door

Shifen 十份
a very small town that did the video shoot of a used to be very famous movie

So what you gonna do here is...
Write / draw your wishes on the lantern
Set the it free to the sky
and
take lotsa photos
It's said that your wishes will come true by doing this
There's a specific season that this place will be full of people
and lantern floating in the sky
it'll be damn nice if you visit this place during that season

Souvenirs buying
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You may wanna visit this place on your way back to Taipei city
or maybe another trip

Sanxia 三峽
A street that looks good in photo
Still looking okay with bare eyes
Street of croissant that's less than 1km

we had our supper here instead
traditional looking restaurant with mommy
Ate traditional food i.e. noodle, glutinous rice and soup
These were awesome
I like them a lot
(not their very buttery croissant)

I guess you should only visit here at night
I think there's nothing much when the sun is still up

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We visited this small town mainly for breakfast
Daxi 大溪
They have these building with unique sculpting above the building
This street is pretty short also (less than 1km i might say)

You may find a tourist spot at the end of the street
Daxi bridge
Oh... 
we were here for breakfast
and here they are
The restaurant 
to eat
The breakfast
actually our main purpose of that day was to visit
大溪花海農場 
Too bad that we came a bit too early
the flowers weren't fully bloomed yet
climate changed...

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Oppps... forgot something
This is somewhere close to Taipei also i.e. Taoyuan

OPEN將魔法樂園 - 小人國 Theme Park
Story about this OPEN alien
Does anybody knows that
that white alien is the mascot of 7-eleven?
Or maybe just for Taiwan

This is a theme park that's full of ...
Miniatures of famous architecture of many countries
and
Amusement rides
This is a MUST TRY with raincoat of cuz
I got myself all wet cause of this...



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Phew...
finally done
imma posting them up without checking
i guess there should be lotsa typos in it
hmmm..
sorry ya