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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
After we finished visiting Yeliu Geopark (野柳地质公园), we took a bus from Yeliu (opposite the place where the bus dropped us off, right in front of a mini market) to Keelung (nt 100 (RM 11.75) for 2 person). The reason we're heading to Keelung is to meet my brother. He's ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
From our research, to go to Yeliu Geopark (野柳地质公园) from our hotel, we need to go to the Intercity Bus Terminal (Taipei Main Station). The location of our hotel (Taipei CityInn Hotel 新驛旅店) is very good, every public transportation (MRT, Train, Bus station) is just across the street. After we ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
It was already 4pm+ after we had our hot spring at XinBeiTou (新北投). Our next destination is DanShui and we suppose to reach the lover's bridge (情人桥) by 5 to see the sunset but seems like we won't be able to make it. Blames who? Well, blame ourselves lor, waking ...
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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 ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
The National Palace Museum (国立故宫博物院) is our first destination on the second day of our Taiwan trip. After we had our yummy yummy siu long bao (上海小笼包) breakfast, we took the MRT from Taipei Main Station(台北车站) to Shilin Station(士林站).
Bus station, right in front of the entrance of Shilin Station.
these buses ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
It was already 12pm+ when we finished visiting the National Chiang Kai-Shek (CKS) Memorial Hall (國立中正紀念堂). So what's next? We're heading to Wulai / Ulay (乌来). I heard a lot of forumers discussed about Ulay Hot Spring but I don't plan to take hot spring there. What else to see ...
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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, ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
I thought booking for hotels in Taiwan is the same as other countries, which means we can simply find a few hotel booking websites, compare the rates and booked from there but clearly I was wrong. I went to search for hotels at a few hotel booking websites and found ...
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
We arrived on time (8pm+) at the Taipei Tao Yuan Airport. The airport is pretty quiet, not much people.
This is the place to collect our luggage
pretty empty right?
After we collected our luggage, we proceed to the customer service to apply for the Youth Travel Card (青年旅遊卡). If you are between ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
This Taiwan trip was a last minute decision by FL and me. At first, we plan to go to Bali. In fact, we told all our family and friends that we're going to Bali. We did quite a lot of research on Bali and the only thing we haven't do ...
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