Taiwan Day 2We started our second day as early as 8am. The first destination of the day will be the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall and Liberty Square.
You need walk up 89 Steps of stairs that represent Chiang Kai Shek's age at the time of his dead. Inside you can see a large bronze statute of Chiang Kai Shek.
Before you reach the memorial hall, you need to went through a large Liberty Sqaure which usually serve as a site for any majoy mass gathering in Taiwan. At both site of the square, there is National Concert Hall and the National Theater.
We are Orange! We gathered at Liberty Square. We not Party Green or Blue. :P
We then visited the Shilin Official Residence. The former residence of late President of Taiwan, Chiang kai Shek.
There is a Rose Garden located in the area of the residence because the President's wife love roses very much.
You wont get hungry in this trip. Is Lunch time after we finish visit the Shilin Official Residence. :D
The destination we went to after lunch was Leofoo Village Theme Park. It is a theme park and also have a safari.
You will sit in the train and round the Safari.
This carnivora area, visitors will sat in a bus and round the area.
Somewhere in the Safari. You can take photo with the camel.
After LeoFoo Village, We then took around 1 hour to reach TaiChung and have our dinner at a restaurant. After dinner, We then went to a night market call YiChung Night Market. Makan lagi. :)
Didn't try the bird egg the old man do but we try the other 2. Nice! Please queue ya cause alot of ppl buying.
We tried the screaming condor at the theme park. Really screaming lo. hehe can you spot the orange? :P
We arrived Taiwan after 3 hours flight from Kota Kinabalu. We then went to have our lunch before we start our journey. Yehliu Geopark is the first destination we went to and you can see a number of nice rock formations here.
When we arrived, it is not as crowded as I expected. May be still early in the morning. :P
Our tour guide was great. He bring alot of laughter to the group and share alot information with us during the entire trip.
One of the popular rock formation at Yehliu, The Gorilla.
The most famous rock formation was the "The Queen's Head". If you want to take photo with it, you need to queue quite a long time as alot of tourists. So, We decided to take it from far as we have limited time and we have alot of area to checkout at Yehliu.
Jiufen (九份）used to be a village at mountain area that have only 9 famalies and alot of gold was discovered in the area. Now this area become tourists attraction and you will see alot of souvenir stores and alot of things to eat too. :D
Fried mushroom. Nice.
Danshuei Fisherman Wharf used to be an important fishing harbor for taiwan. Now it is very well-known by its beautiful sunset and the Lover's bridge. According to our tour guide, alot of couples will come to here to enjoy the sunset.
The third destination for the day will be the Danshuei Old Street Night Market. Here you can find alot of things to eat and one of the famous, Ah Gei (阿给).
Others well known food like Smelly Tofu (臭豆腐） and Big Sausage wraping Small Sausage (大肠包小肠） also can find it here.
We then heading to our last destination for the day, Hsimenting (西门町）. It is very popular area as here you can find the most up to date Stuff. :D
Ah Chung Noodle (阿宗面线） also very nice and well known. The bitter gourd juice mixed with honey also nice to drink.
Before going to Taiwan, we have a day spared in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. We arrived at KK early in the morning and we stayed in Megah D'Aru Hotel for a night which arranged by the tour agency. Nice Hotel, but not recommend for longer stayed, cause you will heard loud plane noise every single day as the hotel is very near to the KK Terminal. hehe. Wasting no time, after we having our breakfast, we went down to KK Town for a walk and had our seafood dinner before we go back to hotel. Time to prepare for the next destination, TAIWAN! :D
Megah D'Aru Hotel.
The Kolo Kueh Tiaw RM5, Fried Beehoon RM5, Dim Sum is like RM3/bucket. Drinks RM2 at least.
It took 10 - 15 minutes to reach the SwordFish Statue from our hotel. RM13 for the Taxi.
I didn't manage to visit Suria Sabah on the previous trip as it haven't complete develop.
Having our lunch at food court in Suria Sabah. Alot of thing to eat and you can have a nice view to the sea. RM7/plate.
It was very hot during the noon time so we decided just have a view of Jesselton Point Ferry Terminal from Suria Sabah.
There is food court that sell RM2.80 chicken rice. Didn't try but alot of people ordered and look nice.
Suang Tain was on my mind before the Old Village waitress acknowledge me that their restaurant have no service tax. Hmm..
Nice Dinner. But the greeny with egg cost RM20 plus, thats not right. No service tax? All charge into the dishes already.
