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DETAILS + PICTURES (LIKE FINALLY HAHAHAHA)
Day 1:
Took the plane at 8.55 am and touched down at Taiwan Taoyuan Airport at around 2.15pm! Then we went to make our youth travel card (for free~ Haha and this card allows us to get discounts when you visit some of the places of interest in Tw - 大溪花海農場，青青草原 and somemore.. haha will update more when I reach the day.) Took bus (NT125) from Taoyuan to Taipei Mainstation, the ride was about 1 hour long and it was comfortable haha (taxi will cost about NT1000) Yep then we went to help my friend retrieve her lost camera and headed down to banana hostel!!! Banana hostel is located at a super good location! Very convenient - (Walking distance from Dongmen Station, which is 2-3 stops from Taipei Mainstation) Pictures below!! I personally like banana alot because it smells very nice~ And we get to eat free bananas everyday! LOL and there are extremely nice toasts here and 7-11 is just below the hostel haha lazy us settled a few meals there. And we can wash clothes, cook, watch TV and everything! I RECOMMEND THIS PLACE IF YOU ARE GOING TO TW ON A BUDGET TRIP! Actually, most of the minsu-s we went are all very nice and clean. Not like the dirty kind where we need to share toilets with other people etc. Or maybe because we chose (and was lucky) to get the cleaner minsu-s with private toilets. :) SO, it is very important to go research on the minsu-s/places you are going to stay!
At around 6pm, Joyce Sm and Dm (AND Waisiong!) reached banana hostel and so we waited for them to settle down and headed to ximending for dinz and a teeny weeny bit of shopping! Dinz was at 天外天 (STEAMBOAT BUFFET YUMZ) I think it was NT 550?? Or something around there but it was really nice! With free flow of Haagen Daaz ice cream *jumps around* hahahahah ate till we were soooooo full and there was not only buffet, still have desserts! The cake/puff kind, looks very nice but too bad I was too full to eat anymore lol. Oh and Waisiong was studying in Taiwan (like attachment? I dont really know how poly works but he was in TW during that time so he joined us for the first day! ^^) So after the food we went to walk walk around xmd and something major happened! Sm and Dm suddenly disappeared!!!!! Like really disappeared. We were walking infront and we met some familiar faces (from ajc and yiting from andss/aj) so we stopped to chat for awhile. When I turned back, I remember seeing sm and dm but when we turned back the second time (like maybe 1 SECOND later, they disappeared!!!) Really really disappeared so we panicked and Joyce and I started looking around for them. And after 30min or so, we couldnt find them so we decided to head back to banana (hoping that they would realise that they are missing and also go back to banana to look for us :( ) On our way down the escalator, I spotted them!!! They were going up while we were going down. Then it turns out that we lost each other when sm dropped her coins and she bent to pick it up and they were distracted by some plastic surgery advert and they lost us.... It was really scary but luckily nothing happened. Sigh and something scary happened to me too! :( Cos we were getting down the escalator and we were contemplating whether to board the train then someone said 那是我们的车，快点快点！So I rushed down and in the end only I managed to board the train!!!! OMO but we used hand language and signaled to each other that I would stop at the next station and wait for them. Lesson learnt: dont rush for trains LOL okay so this is the end of the first day! We went back to pack for our 3D2N outing in another part of TW :)
DAY 2!
Met Michael at 8am at Banana and he is the driver of our 3D2N excursion out of taipei! :)) He is a very good driver and he doesnt try to cheat us - 1. I have read on the reviews that drivers usu work from 8am to 5pm and any OT will result in extra charges but michael brings us around until like 8+?! And he wakes us at 4 to bring us to see the sunrise too (more later) And there's WIFI in the car HAHA can chat whatsapp my famz but usually no one replies cos it is not at night :\
Yep so we went to 清境 on our first day! It was a really worthy place to go, everyone should go~ TW is not just about shopping you know! :D We went to eat at a famous place for this: It was really goooood~ The meat was tender and sucha big slice! HAHA nicenice but too bad idk the name of the place.
TADAAAAAAAAAAA
Then we headed up to 青青草原 (NT80? with the youth travel card) But when we went there, it was raining + fogging quite heavily. It was so bad that we could not see anything ahead of us! Like 一片空白。Felt like we were in heaven ~.~ Luckily I brought leggings to wear if not surely freeze up there. Sidetrack k: when I went Tw my lugguage was only like 1/3 full because I brought dress to wear everyday! (except 1 day when we went to the theme park) Yeah because at that time, Tw was nearing summer already so no point bringing so much jeans or warmer clothes. Okay so at 青青草原 we managed to catch the Sheep show and the horse show! plus we went to ride on a horse! Okay it is just like someone pull the horse and we sit on it la. IT WAS MY FIRST TIME! (and very cheap only NT50 Hahah) but the horse is not the kind of majestic shiny and very muscular kind, it is just a horse lol. But still worth to try! :) And the sheeps hor, very biased one!! All refuse to take pictures with me :@ but still cuteeee~
Group shot before going to see the sheeps haha As you can see it is really foggy!
Mehmeh~~ Anw I was standing extremely far away from the performance and it started raining heavily after a while... But luckily the rain stopped shortly heh
My most successful shot with the sheep!
Second most successful! LOL.
See see everyone also want to take pics w the sheeps! But I think only Joyce got a successful one xD
Horse riding!
Haha there isnt a photo where I was looking at the camera, I think I was too happy to ride a horse LOL like you know, riding a horse seems like those very high class thing to do! And I always watch TV shows and secretly wanted to ride one all along :( Finally got a chance :D but the horse is not the pretty kind uh (as mentioned above)
Anw at that place, there was this shop selling things made from cardboard and I thought it was really interesting!
I like the clocks haha so I had to take a selca.
Then after that we went to see some garden (pretty).
(AND I AM TOO LAZY TO BLOG ALRD LOL)
DETAILS + PICTURES (LIKE FINALLY HAHAHAHA)
Day 1:
Took the plane at 8.55 am and touched down at Taiwan Taoyuan Airport at around 2.15pm! Then we went to make our youth travel card (for free~ Haha and this card allows us to get discounts when you visit some of the places of interest in Tw - 大溪花海農場，青青草原 and somemore.. haha will update more when I reach the day.) Took bus (NT125) from Taoyuan to Taipei Mainstation, the ride was about 1 hour long and it was comfortable haha (taxi will cost about NT1000) Yep then we went to help my friend retrieve her lost camera and headed down to banana hostel!!! Banana hostel is located at a super good location! Very convenient - (Walking distance from Dongmen Station, which is 2-3 stops from Taipei Mainstation) Pictures below!! I personally like banana alot because it smells very nice~ And we get to eat free bananas everyday! LOL and there are extremely nice toasts here and 7-11 is just below the hostel haha lazy us settled a few meals there. And we can wash clothes, cook, watch TV and everything! I RECOMMEND THIS PLACE IF YOU ARE GOING TO TW ON A BUDGET TRIP! Actually, most of the minsu-s we went are all very nice and clean. Not like the dirty kind where we need to share toilets with other people etc. Or maybe because we chose (and was lucky) to get the cleaner minsu-s with private toilets. :) SO, it is very important to go research on the minsu-s/places you are going to stay!
At around 6pm, Joyce Sm and Dm (AND Waisiong!) reached banana hostel and so we waited for them to settle down and headed to ximending for dinz and a teeny weeny bit of shopping! Dinz was at 天外天 (STEAMBOAT BUFFET YUMZ) I think it was NT 550?? Or something around there but it was really nice! With free flow of Haagen Daaz ice cream *jumps around* hahahahah ate till we were soooooo full and there was not only buffet, still have desserts! The cake/puff kind, looks very nice but too bad I was too full to eat anymore lol. Oh and Waisiong was studying in Taiwan (like attachment? I dont really know how poly works but he was in TW during that time so he joined us for the first day! ^^) So after the food we went to walk walk around xmd and something major happened! Sm and Dm suddenly disappeared!!!!! Like really disappeared. We were walking infront and we met some familiar faces (from ajc and yiting from andss/aj) so we stopped to chat for awhile. When I turned back, I remember seeing sm and dm but when we turned back the second time (like maybe 1 SECOND later, they disappeared!!!) Really really disappeared so we panicked and Joyce and I started looking around for them. And after 30min or so, we couldnt find them so we decided to head back to banana (hoping that they would realise that they are missing and also go back to banana to look for us :( ) On our way down the escalator, I spotted them!!! They were going up while we were going down. Then it turns out that we lost each other when sm dropped her coins and she bent to pick it up and they were distracted by some plastic surgery advert and they lost us.... It was really scary but luckily nothing happened. Sigh and something scary happened to me too! :( Cos we were getting down the escalator and we were contemplating whether to board the train then someone said 那是我们的车，快点快点！So I rushed down and in the end only I managed to board the train!!!! OMO but we used hand language and signaled to each other that I would stop at the next station and wait for them. Lesson learnt: dont rush for trains LOL okay so this is the end of the first day! We went back to pack for our 3D2N outing in another part of TW :)
DAY 2!
Met Michael at 8am at Banana and he is the driver of our 3D2N excursion out of taipei! :)) He is a very good driver and he doesnt try to cheat us - 1. I have read on the reviews that drivers usu work from 8am to 5pm and any OT will result in extra charges but michael brings us around until like 8+?! And he wakes us at 4 to bring us to see the sunrise too (more later) And there's WIFI in the car HAHA can chat whatsapp my famz but usually no one replies cos it is not at night :\
Yep so we went to 清境 on our first day! It was a really worthy place to go, everyone should go~ TW is not just about shopping you know! :D We went to eat at a famous place for this: It was really goooood~ The meat was tender and sucha big slice! HAHA nicenice but too bad idk the name of the place.
TADAAAAAAAAAAA
Then we headed up to 青青草原 (NT80? with the youth travel card) But when we went there, it was raining + fogging quite heavily. It was so bad that we could not see anything ahead of us! Like 一片空白。Felt like we were in heaven ~.~ Luckily I brought leggings to wear if not surely freeze up there. Sidetrack k: when I went Tw my lugguage was only like 1/3 full because I brought dress to wear everyday! (except 1 day when we went to the theme park) Yeah because at that time, Tw was nearing summer already so no point bringing so much jeans or warmer clothes. Okay so at 青青草原 we managed to catch the Sheep show and the horse show! plus we went to ride on a horse! Okay it is just like someone pull the horse and we sit on it la. IT WAS MY FIRST TIME! (and very cheap only NT50 Hahah) but the horse is not the kind of majestic shiny and very muscular kind, it is just a horse lol. But still worth to try! :) And the sheeps hor, very biased one!! All refuse to take pictures with me :@ but still cuteeee~
Group shot before going to see the sheeps haha As you can see it is really foggy!
Mehmeh~~ Anw I was standing extremely far away from the performance and it started raining heavily after a while... But luckily the rain stopped shortly heh
My most successful shot with the sheep!
Second most successful! LOL.
See see everyone also want to take pics w the sheeps! But I think only Joyce got a successful one xD
Horse riding!
Haha there isnt a photo where I was looking at the camera, I think I was too happy to ride a horse LOL like you know, riding a horse seems like those very high class thing to do! And I always watch TV shows and secretly wanted to ride one all along :( Finally got a chance :D but the horse is not the pretty kind uh (as mentioned above)
Anw at that place, there was this shop selling things made from cardboard and I thought it was really interesting!
I like the clocks haha so I had to take a selca.
Then after that we went to see some garden (pretty).
(AND I AM TOO LAZY TO BLOG ALRD LOL)
