乌来
My dad was not feeling too well so things did not really carried out as planned... but the scenery was pretty awesome.
It was a 40mins bus ride up hill again! The bus can be taken from a bus-stop near 新店站.
Along the route, there were beautiful views.. Here's the view of our alighting point:
Actually i wanted to go to 泰雅民族 museum but there was insufficient time. By the time we reached, it's already lunchtime!
So skipped to the next plan which is to go 乌来老街 and try 泰雅婆婆 food~
He was standing right in front of 泰雅婆婆 shop.. dressed in Taiya costume and with RED lipstick!! I wanted to ask him why he has lipstick on his lips? Is it a custom in Taiya tribe? But i didn't have the courage to do so =P
I saw the friendly photo of 泰雅婆婆 in the guidebook but when i was there, 泰雅婆婆 was just sitting there and rather a younger lady was serving us.. since it's 泰雅婆婆 shop, i have to capture a photo with her too:
Hmmm... absolutely delicious food they served! I love it!
山猪肉。。。。
竹筒饭。。。。
炸溪鱼溪虾拼盘。。。。
炸鱼香三酥。。。。
冬瓜鸡肉汤。。。。
很纯朴的天然菜肴。。蛮喜欢它天然的口感。。the meat is tasty.. the chicken skin has a thick layer of fat beneath.. the crispy mini fish and mini prawn from the lake..the fresh veggie..mmmmmmm........
泰雅婆婆 is not the only eatery that sells the above food. As we walked down the street, we noticed many other similar eateries.
The 冰温泉蛋 is a 小吃 not to be missed too.. the soft and semi solid yolk.. wow..
I wanted to go take a look at the 露天温泉 too but decided to skip it and head directly to 乌来瀑布.
View on a bridge on the way:
好美的自然景观。。。
There's 2 ways to travel uphill to see the 乌来瀑布:
(1) By 乌来观光台车
(2) By foot via the 情人布道
To my surprise, my daddy wanted to walk instead!! 觉得不舒服的他希望能走走好逼他的汗出来...
it's quite a pleasant walk =) because of the graceful scenery of Wulai you are able to view along the track..the cool and good weather... and the fresh air.. but do note you will be walking alongside the roadside (but not many cars passed by though)
Those aboriginal paintings are rather cute ~
I didn't noe i have this photo! hehee.. doggie running while owner driving on a motorbike, so cute! i must have missed Sky when i see this scene..
Yup! We are reaching the 瀑布 soon..
From afar..
Nearer..
Yes~ Reached!
We sat in front of the waterfall for a while and enjoyed our 古早味冰棒 (bt not very nice to eat though)!
原本我是满期待能去云仙乐园 which is even higher than where we were at. The main tourist transportation up is via cable car.
One of the main reasons to go there is to join its Night trail to view 萤火虫! I was rather excited about it as i like to participate in such nature trails.
In the end, we can't head up due to my dad's medical condition and phobia of height. The cable car ride is relatively high which he feels he won't be able to take it so we decided to head back to Taipei and visit Shilin market..
Downhill we go via the 台车 back to bus-stop and then to Shilin. . . . .
Bye Bye Wulai..
士林夜市
There's nothing more i can say because anyone who has been in Taipei must have visited Shi Lin market. No doubt about that~
It's a wonderful market with all kinds of taiwan food. The only bad thing is its bad ventilation - which means by the time you walk out of the place, you smell! Haha..
This time round, i did not try the 超大鸡排 which nv fail to have a queue. (i don't really feel the 鸡排 is nice too..) I tried grilled sticks of mushroom, bacon, chicken heart (see pic above). Yes, i really love the chicken heart.. grilled chicken heart is so delicious!
Once you are out from the entrance of Shi Lin market, you can turn left and walk straight, across the road to 文林路 and 基河路 - The Shopping Haven!
I was so happy when i saw a shop called 东京著衣! I adore the clothes there! It's comparatively cheaper and it's the style that i like. So.. my poor mama has to wait for me while i tried on several clothes.. 然后我一口气买了七件物品！！
It's a long stretch of shops on both side of the road. Both of us were so tired hence we did not managed to comb the whole stretch..
Besides shops, there are also food stalls in the middle of the street. I had 花生卷冰淇淋。。。
erm............ can give it a pass. Or rather the ice-cream quality that the vendor provides is really of lousy quality. Somehow the ice-cream is not sweet and tasted plain.
We da bao this back to the hotel & had a nice supper with my Dad. . . both my Dad and I love
this! You can choose different parts of chicken, duck etc available and all are in 卤味. Since young, i have been 'trained' by my dad to eat bony parts like feet, neck and i simply love them now (=P)
30 April 2010
野柳
To get to Yeliu, you can board a bus at Taipei Main Station. It's pretty confusing and when i reached Taipei main station, i did not know which direction i should head to as there were routes to all directions!
After clarification with the train station personnel, we entered the underground mall towards the direction of Area Z3 (there were several different areas with different bus).
After a 1 hr plus ride, we alighted upon the announcement by the bus driver.
This is an obvious sign which indicate the way to walk in to Yeliu~
The views along the road to the entrance of Yeliu
Hee.. i realised the view before we reach Yeliu is really quite scenic
Well, Yelliu Geopark is full of odd-shaped rocks (due to sea erosion), such as mushroom shape, candle rocks, pot holes, chessboard rocks. For me, it's not simply admiring the different shapes of rocks that were formed due to natural power, it's also the 'carefree' background scenery that 衬托 the rocks.
The not-to-be-missed item is certainly the Queen's Head 女皇头!
From a certain angle, the rock looks like a queen's head and that is how it got its name. However, its neck area is getting thinner and one day, its head will drop off. As such, they made a second queen's head in replacement of the orginal queen's head should it drop off one day:
~What you can see at Yeliu Geopark~
我碰到了一件怪事。一件被人骂的怪事。
It's so horrible why such angry people exist in this world? That they are so 计较 about the small small matters in life..
My parents were already posing in between 2 mushroom rocks and i was about to take a photo of them (I am already at the stage of using my index finger to press the shutter button). . .
An uncle appeared out of nowhere and bend down right in front of where i was standing. He is definitely a barrier to the photo i wanted to take hence i walked up to his back,lightly pat on his shoulder and said this at the same time:" 不好意思，我正在拍照，你可以让开一下吗？”
A lady who was standing beside this uncle suddenly turned towards me and scolded me!!! She scolded right into my face that this is a public place and i have no right to ask a person to get off so i can shoot a photo and she went on and on..
(SHOCKED) i looked at her.. not wanting to pick up a fight hence i explained to her in my CONTROLLED nice tone that my parents are already positioned nicely and i was just telling the uncle politely to step aside for a while so i can take the photo ( and pls.. the uncle was bending his body, his back in front of me (who knows what he is doing, maybe tying his shoes lace?) and who knows how long do i have to wait for him to know he is blocking someone and how long he is going to leave his spot???!)
And yes, she does not take my explanation as a valid reason and continued to scold me. However, i do catch one very nice statement :"你不要以为你漂亮就可以。 。 。 。"
*SMILE*
I ignored her and she walked away. As she walked past the hole in between the 2 mushroom rocks where my parents were standing, she continued to scold and said that i'm inconsiderate blah blah blah.
(-_-)" Yes, i did shout back she is very 无聊 (and i really tink she is super 无聊)
The above scenerio happened in a snap and what were the uncle (who blocked our photo-shooting) and my parents doing?
My parents... they were totally puzzled on what is going on (as they were standing at a distance) and then when they realised the lady seems to be scolding me ridiculously, they told me to ignore her. My dad was so damn funny as he tried to console me by telling me that the lady must have just 失恋. I added to his joke and said:" The uncle must be her BF and she's not happy that i touched him."
The uncle... He must be the most blur person in the world! He has no idea that we are quarrelling over him and my parents told me he just walk off like that. . . . . *roll eyes*
From the beginning, we should have really woke up earlier and reach Yeliu at an earlier timing. Otherwise, our visiting timing will not have coincide with the numerous China tour groups touring the place.
As i mentioned, there were many tour groups and thus there were many people!
We have to queue in order to take a photo with the famous Queen's head.
And it's another maddening situation again!
People cutting queue!! Just because they are from the same tour group........
(@&(Y(#@Y&^!) Damn inconsiderate. I even said out loud to my mother who is preparing to take my photo that many ppl are cutting my queue!! Then the old uncle in front of me just simply turn his head back and smile...... *sigh* dun wana argue with old people. 算了。
My dad is the smartest! He does not want to squeeze with the queue and walked around on his own. Why do i say he is the smartest? He did not even need to queue and had a photo with the Queen's head too!!
Hahahhaaa.. smart Dad~
九份
Heading from Yeliu to Jiufen is really a headache. Has been searching on different forum and it seems quite hard to spot the right place to alight & change the bus to Jiufen.
From Yeliu, walk back to the bus-stop where you alighted and cross the road to the bus-stop outside a convenience shop. From there, you can take a Keelung bus. Do be aware that there will be cab driver persuading you to take their cab to wherever you want to go. I did not ask for their rate but they are quite annoying and persuasive... ended up the keelung bus arrived when i was a bit tempted,hehe..
When you board the bus, do highlight to the bus driver where you are going and seek for his help to inform you the right stop to alight and change the bus to Jiufen.
In Singapore, it will be best for you to sit near to the bus-driver if you have sought for his help for the right place to alight. In Taiwan, you need not have to do so as some bus-driver have a mike to announce the stop that you are intending to alight. For some, they shout it out.
This is the view of the stop we alighted.
Thereafter, you will need to cross an overhead bridge to the bus-stop across the road which is diagonally opposite the Keelung station. You will also see this clinic behind the bus-stop (which does not look like a bus-stop)
This is the view from the bus-stop
(Despite doing so much research, it's always a diff scenerio when you reached there. Firstly, i could not spot the clinic and was puzzled if the sheltered area we reached after crossing the bridge was a bus-stop? There were no bus-stop poles similar to other bus-stops. As such, my parents and I crossed the road to the keelung station only to be told by the counter gal that the place we were at is the right bus-stop! It's was def not an obvious bus-stop at all! Afterwhich, then we realised that the bus-stop destination were all stated at the front top section of the shelter where only people outside the shelter will see V_V)
Remember to board the bus heading to 金瓜石! (the LED sign on top front of the bus will state 金瓜石)
(I emphasize on tis because we took the wrong bus!! But luckily we got a bus transfer at a stop where 金瓜石 bus passed by too. . . *sigh*)
You may then alert the bus-driver where you wish to alight (Jiufen 老街).
The beautiful top view from Jiufen
How would you know you have reached the Jiufen old street? It's quite obvious as there is a corner sign stating that the street you are heading into is Jiufen old street.
Nostalgic street of Jiufen
This is the second time i have been to Jiufen. Absolutely love this place because of its 古色古香 street, its vast variety of food and 手信 you can get here........~ I wanted to get the animal ear-ring i bought at this place 3 years ago but i can't locate the shop anymore!!
炸sthg.. (can't rem)。。。inside is octopus/芋圆。。/sausage (whr the stick is a bone)/the big block of peanut where they grind for 花生卷冰淇淋
麦芽糖 in cute cartoon figure/ 螺肉
There are many food you should really try here! We didn't try all the famous food as we have eaten some food in other areas and wanted to just try food we have tried yet. Even a simple bowl of soup with 鱼丸 is delicious~
This is the place where i will get 太阳饼 from 李仪饼店 for my friend~ It was recommended by my close friend during my trip in 2007.
Besides food, the special part of Jiufen is their handicraft shops
One shop which i have heard of from the internet is 是诚陶笛。
They sold flute in all sorta of cutel designs!!! There are tortoises, birds, cars etc..
yup! Did support him but the flute is damn hard to master due to my small finger which cant completely cover the holes at times..
With all our barang barang, we climbed down the narrow stairway alley out of Jiufen to a bus-stop and took a long bus journey back to Taipei where we took the tram back to our hotel..
-To be continued-
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