Summary of my 6D5N Taiwan Trip

Monday, October 26th, 2009

It took me 4 months to finish blogging about my 5D4N HK/Macau Trip and I thought I dragged too long. When I finally finished blogging about my 6D5N Taiwan trip, I realized I finished my HK trip pretty fast, ONLY 4 months. hahahaha.. my Taiwan trip? took me 10 months ...

JiuFen (九份)

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

After spending a few hours at Jinguashi (金瓜石), we headed out to the main entrance to wait for the bus to go down to JiuFen (九份). Jinguashi is the last stop (Keelung->JiuFen->Jinguashi), so we just need to wait for the same bus (bus no) that brought us up to bring ...

Jinguashi (金瓜石)

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Time flies, today will be the last day of our Taiwan trip. After our not so nice McD breakfast, we began our journey to Jinguashi. First, we took the train from Taipei Main Station to Keelung, then from Keelung(基隆), we took a bus to Jinguashi (金瓜石). Why choose ...

Wufenpu & Raohe Street Night Market (五分埔 & 饒河街觀光夜市)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Our next destination after Taipei 101 (台北101) is Wufenpu(五分埔), one of the largest clothing markets in Taipei. Oh my, I'm so excited!! Finally, shopping time!! hahahahahha... You can get to Wufenpu by MRT, Houshanpi station (台北捷運藍線後山埤站) or by Train, Songshan station (松山車站). If you take the MRT, you will need to ...

Taipei 101 (台北101)

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

FL and I both felt so tired after we came back from the Yeliu Geopark (野柳地质公园). That is why we decided to go slow on the 4th day of our Taiwan trip. Our original plan for Day 4 is to go to Hualien (花莲) but we cancelled our plan for ...

Taiwan Shilin Night Market (士林夜市)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

We did a lot of homework on where to go and how to go before we went to Taiwan. One of the place in our list is the Shilin night market (士林夜市). According to the forumers, to go to Shilin night market (士林夜市), we need to take the MRT to ...

XinBeiTou Hot Spring & Hell Valley (新北投温泉 & 地狱谷)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

After our yummy yummy steamboat lunch, we proceed to our next destination, XinBeiTou (新北投). What do we have there? Their hot spring is very famous (which we plan to try) and also the Hell Valley/Geothermal Valley (地狱谷/磺水头/鬼湖), which I am very looking forward to see. We took the MRT to XinBeiTou ...

Taipei XiMenTing (西门町)

Monday, April 13th, 2009

I've always hope I can shop at Xi Men Ting one day and it's really like a dream comes true to me when I travel to Taiwan last year. That is why I was sooo excited when we were in the MRT heading to XiMenTing (西门町). Will there be a ...

Taipei Hwahsi Tourist Night Market (华西街观光夜市)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

A lot of forumers said if we visit the Lung Shan Temple (龍山寺), we should not miss the Hwahsi Night Market (华西夜市) which located just a few streets away from the temple. So after we visited Lung Shan Temple, we proceed to the Hwahsi night market. After asking the locals for ...

Lung Shan Temple (龍山寺)

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

As soon as we finished visiting Bitan (碧潭), we proceed to our next destination, the famous Lung Shan Temple. From Xin Dian Station (新店站), we took the MRT to Lung Shan Station (龍山寺站) (can see how famous is the temple). And here we are... Lung Shan Temple (龍山寺) dun play play, got ...

Bitan (碧潭)

Friday, March 20th, 2009

After we're back from Ulay Hot Spring & Waterfall (乌来温泉和瀑布), our next destination is Bitan (碧潭), which located just opposite the Xin Dian (新店) MRT station. Bitan (碧潭) wah, scary bridge.. I'm afraid of heights.. see the lake? it's green! There are paddle boats for rental too. At first FL wanted to rent one ...

National Chiang Kai-Shek (CKS) Memorial Hall (國立中正紀念堂)

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Today is the first day of our Taiwan trip (arrived late yesterday). I did research about Taipei before I come. It's winter now (dec) and it's best to start the journey early as the sky will be dark at 5pm. We decided to start our journey and tried our best ...

The EasyCard (悠游卡)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Before we started to visit places at Taipei, we got ourselves the EasyCard (悠游卡) at one of the MRT station. The EasyCard is the first touch n go card for mass transport in Taiwan (similar to Hong Kong's Octopus Card (八达通)). You can use the EasyCard at the MRT station, ...