Saturday, December 22, 2012

fun taiwan: Dec 6 - Dec 9

This is going to be a super ultra long post... so I split it up into 3 parts :)

DAY 1 (December 6- Thursday): TAIPEI (台北)

Our hotel room at Caesar Park :D


That's a good PSLE study table :)

MEGA bathroom xD 
(Haha, even the toilet bowl has that special butt- washing thingie >.<)


Here's Taipei Railway Station from our window...

And on a postcard that we bought at Tamsui Old Street (淡水老街)

The station is really big.



We went to Ximending (西门町) after resting in our hotel room.



DAY 2 (December 7- Friday): STILL AT TAIPEI (台北)

The view on the way to Yehliu...



Yehliu Geopark:


Haha, OK here's the part you would wanna read most.
The Queen's head rock xD


We kids standing in front of this famous rock formation.


JIUFEN OLD STREET (九分老街):

Jiufen was high up in the mountains. It was named Jiufen because there used to be 9 families living there (I don't know whether this is true but that's what the tour guide told us :P)



The view up here at Jiufen :D


The making of peanut- and- ice- cream rolled up all together :)


More of the view...

Our parents actually wanted to have some tea around here but we didn't have time in the end D:




Beautiful Scenery xD

A postcard of Jiufen that we bought at Tamsui:


We felt that the outskirts of Jiufen were better than Jiufen Old Street because the air there was fresh, cool, and it wasn't too crowded :)

WATERFALL: (On the way from Jiufen to Pingxi/Shifen)



There was also a Shifen waterfall but it was closed for a period of time :( But you can check it out here

We then visited Nanya...


And went to have a good tea break to fill our hungry stomachs!


Watching the sun set and the sky turn dark...


Pictures by of the river flowing near the Shifen waterfall :D


PINGXI DISTRICT:
A railway track runs through the little town of Pingxi.

Decorating our sky lantern:


My sister writing wishes (guided by my mom)

My little sister xP

My mom's wishes

My dad's wishes

Okay, this was somebody else's sky lantern :D



Letting our beautiful sky lantern go

The very last shot of our sky lantern :(


Here's a beautiful postcard from Tamsui (again) depicting the night scene of Pingxi:


DAY 3 (December 8- Saturday): LEOFOO (六福村) 

Kinda rainy Leofoo Resort... D:

Me and my sis standing against a painting of a giraffe!

Had a nice meal while waiting for them to get our rooms ready :D

Our room (at the Zebra Cottage):

We could even see the lemurs in their little cottages from our room!

Went for a little walk :) saw all kinds of animals walking out...
Antelope

Zebras

Rhinos

Giraffes


DAY 4 PART 1 (December 9- Sunday): LEOFOO (六福村)
Weather: Better weather than yesterday, at least it wasn't rainy, it was just windy :D
Updates: Most of the time spent on the train that day. 
Bad news: I tripped and fell, tore my jeans, and spoilt a part in my Sony camera :( Luckily the memory card didn't fall out.






Went for a little walk and saw some goats:
(At least I think they're goats. Maybe they're sheep :3)



A mascot at Leofoo Resort:
(Supposed to be a lion, sadly there were no lions at Leofoo)
 Papa got "tortured" by the lion first...

 Then, my sis...


And me. 

Read about Hualien in the next part (THERE ARE TOO MANY PHOTOS)

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