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I named this post as "Tourist Style" because on this 2nd Day of my trip..

We booked Uncle Xu's cab for 8 hours for TWD 3300. TWD 300 is meant for road tax.

He's so nice that he even bought fruits for the boy & I
It's pretty worth it, if you go in 4 persons group.

From Shi Fen - Jiu Fen - Gold Mine - Waterfall - Wu Fen Pu Night Market.
(PS: you can tell him where you wanna go and he will plan a good route on the way & bring you around.)
Read on.. I will tell you how to contact him & get discount!

Shi Fen is the place where you can put Sky Lantern (天灯).

Write your wish & send it up to whomever above.
It's only about TWD 100-200 depends on colour.

I sent mine to Jesus HAHAHA!

And special tea for my darling, only available at Jiu Fen

It's a famous-healthy-tea which cost 3 boxes TWD 3000.

It's cheaper if you by 3 boxes at once.

1 box is about SGD42+

It's called "台灣之寶"

The boy & I doesn't eat Yam but we eat this.

Yam without the disgusting texture, if you know what I meant?

So don't blacklist it the moment you know it's Yam, give it a try (:

After Jiu Fen, walked back to find Uncle Xu and he start to drive us around.

Totally love what he planned.

He brought us to a place where we can touch gold.

No entrance fee.

Right near the entrance, they have an interesting Japanese house.

It was built since 1940s, right there, destroyed & revamp all over again.

It's called "Four-joined Japanese Style Residence"

I love History, it kinda runs in the blood of my family.

It has 4 houses joined together.

The houses are built & designed according to the ranking of the soldiers.

 Okay gold touching time~
These is how gold was first found in Taiwan.

It worth TWD 27,691,700  = SGD 654,908,705
Weight: 257 gram.
I can't even push it.
Photos are limited because after us, there came a China women and her Taiwanese Husband.
They keep taking picture and created a queue right behind.
Inconsiderate much, as you can see from above, you're suppose to only put one hand in..
The women put two. $.$
HAHA don't understand. 

Okay moving on.. next stop is a Waterfall.
Oh yes~ that's Uncle Xu.

Finally back in Taipei City.
Shopping Time at Wufenpu.
Didn't get much stuff.
We were famished and decided to have 胡须张 (鬍鬚張 Formosa Chang ) for dins.

Famous for Minced pork rice (卤肉饭).
Nearest Station: Hou Shan Pi.
I don't fancy Minced pork rice (卤肉饭) but the boy love it.
I had curry rice, yummy!

Side dishes.

Main course.

Now is the discount sharing time!
Uncle Xu was introduced by my gf, Ansley.
Hence, I got discount & free fruits.
Usual price if you booked a cab for 8 hours its TWD 4000 and above, exclude standard road tax TWD 300.

But Uncle Xu offer me TWD 3300 (incl. road tax) + Free fresh fruits.
Now.. it's your turn!
Call Xu Shu Shu and tell hi, you're "Qiu xue's " friend and remind him to give you free fruits!
@ +886920092179
if you're going Taiwan, I believe no matter which part you're going.. he can help you!

xoxo.

It's really a short trip of just 5 Days. I frequent Taipei, every year once at least

One of the year I went twice.. so actually I kinda know the places inside out.

However, there should always be some new things I get to try in during different trips.

This year, I got to try new hotel, new food & new shopping mall.

I'm still complaining that it's too short, usually I go for at least 6-10 Days, haha but no choice, the boys' school is starting. Well better than nothing. (:

My flight was at an unearthly hour, 12:45AM. But first, let me take a selfie.

no idea why this time round we didn't sleep on the plane.

We were kinda awake and when we reach Taoyuan Airport it was only 5:30AM.

By 6.00AM, we arrived in our hotel in Taipei.

This time round, I finally managed to book in-house Hotel which is always fully booked.

After the stay, I finally could reckon why its always fully booked.

It's way too awesome. Let me put you on hold for the hotel first because check-in time was 2.00PM.

Left our luggage, as usual it's too early, even XimenDing only opened around 11.00AM!

Went for Breakfast at Yong He (XiMenDing), just a turn from our hotel.

Chinese menu, when you ask what's nice, they will tell you: "everything".

So we got the most basics.

by now it was only 9.00AM~ till long way to go.

We decided to hop on the train towards Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.

We still have a good 3-4 hours before our tired bodies can rest.

We took a train back to XiMenDing, had a drink at Starbucks.

Google "where can you go if you reach Taipei early?".

MASSAGE~YES!

So we google for massage parlour around XiMenDing.

Royal Bali seems well recommended, so we GPS our way there.

Made an appointment at 12.00PM and went back XiMenDing to have Ah Zhong Mian Xian.

* ding dong ding dong~ *

Relaxing ambience. Awesome too just sleep in.

We had a 2 hours massage package for TWD 1499 (SG$63.40).

A little overpriced but yea, we just wanna kill time.

Their toiletries are from L'Occitane.

In-house hotel is really awesome, although I'm not as lucky as my girlfriend whom got free room upgrading.
But my room is still good.
Comfy and beautiful.
Most importantly, they change our bedsheet everyday!
Some Taiwan hotel just make your bed and that's it.

Finally we got to nap.
After nap, we went  Shilin Night Market!
To get there, please alight from Jian Tan Station and not Shi Lin Station.
Food.

It's really hard to shop with guys.

xoxo

The ones with me.

Yummy Yum Yum

Japan Loot!

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