Saturday, July 15, 2006

Day 2 : Danshui, Ximending and Raohe NM

we ate a nice breakfast at a coffee house nearby the hostel...was raining slightly, so the coffee house's aunties said that Wulai (烏來) will not be fun...and told us to go to Danshui (淡水) instead...and that we can also take ferry to cross over to Bali (八里)...so we changed our plan to go there instead...took the MRT to Danshui which is the last stop on the north line...lots of food stalls there...settled our lunch at one small restaurant...food was really nice!...had a little walk around the riverbank before we took a ferry over to Bali...well...we walked like crazy over there and really not much there to see over at Bali...or perhaps maybe we should have just rented the bicycles haha...took the ferry back to Danshui...tried the famous Danshui ice-cream...they are really cute and only cost NT10 each...then it started to rain heavily...luckily we never went over to the Fisherman's Wharf (渔人码头)...else we would have been stuck in the rain over there lol...plus u can't probably see sunset too in the rain right =)...went back to the hostel for a little washup and rest before heading to Ximending (西門町) for a walk...it was really crowded, with teenagers especially...lots of shops selling the latest fashion and anything that is young and trendy...truely the centre of Taiwan's youth culture...couldn't find any nice food there since our main aim was dinner...so we went over to Raohe Night Market (饒河街) for more food haha...how stupid that we took MRT to Taipei City Hall Station instead of taking the train to Songshan (松山) train station...so end up walking quite a distance again...argh!!! anyway really lots of food there and we ate and ate and ate...love eating those ices especially in such warm weather...couldn't finish walking to the end of the street since we had to catch the last train (yes...at least we are smart enough to take train now ^^")...but i will definitely come back again when i return to Taipei later hehe...


the cat likes my hp...or rather my hp strap =)

our delicious breakfast

drinking the greeeeeeeeen water since the aunties call it 青水 which actually is just green tea afterall haha...

pressing the emergency button? haha

view of Bali from Danshui

they have horse riding there too for kids haha

DIY floss candy!


kinda out of shape thou haha =p

on the ferry to Bali

view of Danshui from Bali

view of 渔人码头 from Bali

at Guanhai Pier after a very long tiring walk!!!

locals fishing there

dude...i rather swim than walk back!!!

one of the houses that i saw from a documentary before that is used for pigeon racing, and in Taiwan, u can earn big buck from it

eating the famous Danshui ice-cream

slurp!

our lunchies

阿给老店 on the left where we have our lunch

大戲...they actually used microphones in the hand lol

Ximending streets crowded with people

in front of Raohe Night Market

trying to finish it in one mouthful

the empty Zhongshan underground shopping mall late at night