先介绍一些重要人物. 首先是看起来不像62岁的导游钟导, 领队Mr Ong, 还有很会说话的driver铁人.哈哈! 这团一共有23人, 四个小孩和三个“大孩子”. 基本上, 没有人和我同个年龄啦, 要不就太小, 要不就已经踏入社会啦.
我在台湾的8天里, 每天都下雨. 因为刚好碰上梅雨季, 雨是一阵一阵的下, 多少影响了整个旅程.
听友人说台湾有百多个电视台, 其实有太多电视台也不是件好事啦..哈哈! (手会很累哦...) 到头来, 还是经常看一些在老家也能看得到的节目.
(Gotta type english now...XP chinese software is playing games with me...)
Impression of Taipei...rundown...the city did not look very lively to me. The traffic condition and the city structure were kinda messy too. Well, I understand I can't use our standards here to compare lah, but being the largest city in TW, I think the city needs some new development. Haha! What's interesting were the names outside their taxis and coaches. They were the names of the drivers on the doors lo...quite a gd idea ya? Can complain the taxi driver straight away if we are unhappy with the service ya? Haha...not sure of the real purpose for doing that though.
1st stop: Taoyuan International Airport
Boarded CI 2662 at 1.10am. We took the middle row, didnt feel comfortable most of the time, perhaps I felt hungry and then my stomach was kinda emptied la. So, didnt´have much appetite and I couldn't finish my chicken rice, only managed to clear up the side dishes. CI's inflight entertainment Dynasty Sky was not bad, many movies and music selections. There were short infotainment programmes and games too. Some more, it's touch screen..hehe!
Watched Aaron Kwok's "Fu Zi" first, kinda boring somehow...but Aaron's acting was good la. There were "Curse of the golden flower", "Ghost Rider", "Letter from Ijima", "200 pounds lady" etc. Only realised there's 200 pounds in the middle of my flight, so couldnt finish it. Haiz...The plane was an Airbus 333, a modified version of Airbus 330...seating was alright, cusions and blankets were given. (Window seats were better tho..).
Time passed, and I hardly slept...saw the rising sun on plane lo...super beautiful scene! Wow...super red and sunny sun...(I hardly see the sun later on...lolz!)
Reached Taoyuan at 5.37am.
TIA Terminal 1 looked old to me...very old....E.W said it was like HK's old airport ard 20 yrs ago. I think their T2 was way better ba. Gotta travel an hour to reach Taipei city.
Had my breakfast at Yong He Qing Zhou Da Wang. Quite traditional mixed vegs plus porridge la.
2nd stop: Yang Ming Shan Park
Was a little disappointed that I couldn't visit "Xiao You Keng" at YMS la. Actually there's nothing too special abt the garden. There were much more things to see up on the mountains, but u know...we were on a tour la...that's quite impossible la. Haiz..This is part of the mountain scenery i saw at YMS. Bascially many mountains were covered by clouds during the trip...very beautiful actually...
Mr Chiang Kai Shek's statue.still intact ah..lolz!
The main attraction of this park..the flower clock with Mr Chean. Don't rely on this clock wor...not accurate at all. haha!3rd stop: National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall (Zhong Zheng Ji Nian Tang)
Managed to visit this memorial hall la...all thanks to the Taipei city govt? Haha...Get to see many exhibits of Mr Chiang Kai Shek la...
The back view of the memorial hall...that small banner was "irritating"..
The "Pai Fang"....lucky they haven't change it...lolz!
The new name & logo la...
This is kinda sacarstic, you're saying gdbye to Mr CKS in his "di pan"? Haha..it's like saying goodbye to your forefather...what the heck?
Front view of the memorial hall.
One of the two halls along the main walkway to the hall..forgot what's the purpose..seemed to be musical halls or what..
Far view of the President office (Zong Tong Fu).
A bad shot of the famous "Grand Hotel" a.k.a "Yuan Shan Da Fan Dian". Basically u get to see it once u enter TPE city...4th stop: Martyr's Shrine
Basically, tourists couldn't enter the main hall..only the president could enter la..What's the shrine for? Hmm...remembering those who had sacrificed for the nation ba?
The main entrance of the shrine...
The soldiers at the changing of guards ceremony. They gotta change every hour lo and they had to stand still and remained silent...a tedious ceremony.5th stop: Shihlin Night Market
Due to the rain, our tour guide wanted to let us see see how the night market looked like and told us to go back again at night. Well, though they claimed Shihlin do open the whole day...it's definitely not true la..only a few stalls..and there's a wet market inside also la, which opens in the morning la.6th stop: Hotel Riverview & Xi Men Ding
Riverview's hotel rooms were small...can "fight" with HK's hotels liao...haha! Limited channels on the TV..sianz..Basically I had my free time to walk around liao...so walked over to XMD, walking distance was not very long, not short either..lolz! Saw "Eslite Xi Men Branch" first, went to look around, nothing much la..coz' it's too small. There's another old mall (think the name is Wan Hua)...selling many shoes, toys and stuffs...
The road junction at XMD...
The famous "Ah Zong Mian Xian"...many ppl said it was delicious, but it was average to me..may be I preferred "Zhong kou wei" la..preferred the oysters mee sua @ our Shihlin franchise stall..lolz!
Ah Zong Mian Xian.
From Mister Donuts.
"Hong Lou Theatre" opposite Xi Men metro station...unique "ba jiao" structure. Many singers do hold concerts there...
View of XMD opp Hong Lou.Returned to hotel, coz' our relatives came to visit us. Long time didnt see "bo fu" liao...only met once in SG. Saw his daughter-in-law and her son...omg! I became auntie liao lo! Alamak la..lolz! Anyway, I had 2 nephews liao la..only managed to see the younger one, and he's a bubbly baby...likes to smile and super active. Hehe...
7th stop: Shihlin Night Market
Walked back to XMD and to Xi Men metro station, their single ticket coin token was similar to Bangkok's metro la. Transferred to the red line at Taipei Main Station..
Not all stations has this protector...even Xi Men didn't have one. I wonder why they didn't covered it up...anyway, when the train comes and the station does not has this glass protector...the train would create a big wind when it enters the station...don't stand too close sia. Also, they queued up quite neatly while waiting for the trains, I think our train stations shld follow up somehow...draw the lines longer? haha!Went to Shihlin, tried the famous "Hao Da Da Ji Pai"....big, with bones, and didn't cut into small pieces. Well, it's not particularly very delicious...the "Sheng Chao Hua Zhi" (our sotong)..didnt look delicious to me also la...haha! Tried their smelly tofu and "guan cai ban"..not too bad. Not all the stalls were opened leh. They off on Mondays huh? So anyway, we were quite disappointed la...There's another part selling clothes and stuff, didnt walked over la..well, Shihlin was very famous, but then I was not convinced with what i saw...lol! Even the crowd was not big ...(Weekend ba..that's what i heard...)
Practically didn't sleep for a whole day...amazed.
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