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

===================================================

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.

===================================================

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

===================================================

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)

===================================================

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

===================================================

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

===================================================

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...

===================================================

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...

===================================================

Phew...

finally done

imma posting them up without checking

i guess there should be lotsa typos in it

hmmm..

sorry ya