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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Taipei Holiday! :D (Part 2)

Day 6. Start off with prayers at LongShan Temple. And look! They have got big LED display at their front door! Cool right? Followed zhuby to do some prayers, and got one amulet for my sis, O level this year. On the way to other places, we walk through the underground crystal and jade market. Find their designs somehow similar to those in Singapore. Next station is the Miniatures Museum of Taiwan. This museum showcases miniature figurines, so tiny and so detailed. The artist really put in lots of artwork. Like the displays a lot. How I wish I've got such talents. X) Don't know where to go in the night, so went to the supermarket near our hotel to buy cup noodles. See how much we have bought! Whole trolley of it. :P

LongShan Temple LED display

ME!!

Man-made waterfall in LongShan temple

The insides of LongShan temple

Very 1st display when enter the museum

Big Ferris wheel

A glass house, cool!

Took with this display cause it's named Autumn Leaves

The biggest display there!

Special exhibit this month, mini tiny teddy bears!

All 4 packets of instant noodles are mine! :D

Day 7. One of the important places to go during this trip, the Confucius Temple. It's under renovation, so couldn't view the whole temple. And I made wishes for my sis again. :):) Nearby is BaoAn Temple, zhuby go there and pray for protection if I'm not wrong. Too tire to go night markets, we simply walk around the back alleys near our hotel. It's like Haji Lane, very fashionable yet very expensive.

Jokes on the way to Confucius temple

The main hall in Confucius Temple

Paper wishes (free)

Wooden wishes (around NT40)

My old cafe - Amber Brunch :P

Beautiful Heart Store

Day 8. Last day in Taipei! Went to Shilin there for lunch, tried the Haw Kwang Vegetarian Restaurant. Damn yummy! 14 course meal for just $10! Hahas. Then went to buy 8 boxes of Milk Taiyang Bing. Damn yummy too! Meet up with zhuby's parents after that to visit the famous Eslite Bookstore and have dessert at Sushi Express. Cheap and delicious sushi! NT30 per plate only, and it's for all dishes! Wasted 1 hour at the airport cause the check-in counters not open.

One of the hallways in Taoyuan International Airport

I like the washroom sign. :D

On the plane back to Singapore

So bored that I drew on zhuby's fingers. X)

That's all. BYE TAIWAN! See you again soon! :D

Happy Shopping @ amberofautumn.com.sg

Taipei Holiday! :D (Part 1)

First stop of my holiday - Wufenpu! Hahas. I will say it's not worth it if you are not retailers going there to take stocks. Cause those that is priced cheaply, are mainly faulty items. Some retailers are fair, they paste stickers on the faulty area to let us know, yet some don't. So do check your stuff when you make purchases! :) Night, we went to Ximending for dinner. Didn't shop much there cause the stuff there aren't cheap.

Wufenpu

Modern Toilet Cafe at Ximending

Pretty drummer performing on street

3rd day. Went to Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall early in the morning. The weather is damn warm and humid like Singapore. If you don't like history. Don't go there. :S Next stop is Taipei 101, and I keep saying Beijing 101. So Singaporean! You can't see the whole of Taiwan up there, just a saying to attract tourists. But it's quite cool. We watch the sunset at level 91, the highest you can travel. And we have got new family members, the squid and the octopus! XD

Outfit of the day - Couple Army Tee

Handsome zhuby in Couple Army Tee

Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall

Don't know why the colour so fake!

I look stunt. X)

The shades team

Surprisingly we did the same pose

Our new family members

Taken at Level 89

Sunset at Level 91

Night view of Taipei 101

The best photo of LOVE I can find

Day 4. It's a Zoo day! Taipei Zoo entrance fee is damn cheap, only NT 60! But the panda is disappointing, both sleeping, so boring. I like the Amphibian and Reptiles exhibit, pretty cool and scary. Their children's corner is interesting too, quite small though. Didn't get to go to their insectarium cause we're too slow and it's closed. And it's Din Tai Feng for dinner!

Outfit of the Day - I'm selling this too!

Don't this bear looks like me?

Look at the face of the small boy

I look pretty in this photo! :D

zhuby so happy to see the Orang Utan

3 muscular guys helping the turtle statue

weird looking animal - Salamander

zhuby says he likes this photo, but I don't >.<

At Din Tai Feng

Day 5. Hotspring day with the super warm weather and no make up. Beitou hotspring, one of the attractions in Taipei. It's a public one, and entrance fee is only NT40, where you get to enjoy it for a few hours. There's around 5 pools, 3 hotspring, and 2 freezing cold pool. The hotspring pools are segregated by temperatures of the water, which we only managed to go to the 2nd one. Last pool's temperature is around 45º. If you think this hot, check out the video I took at Devil's Valley where the water origin from. Look at the steam, non-stop, and the place smells like rotten egg. Next up is the Fisherman's Wharf, where the bridge there is known as the Lover's Bridge. Main attraction there is to view their sunset which we did. :D