Vacation at Taiwan (Day 2)

Day 2

The day started with morning call at 5 a.m. as we needed to board an early morning bullet train trip to Taipei. From Taoyuan to Taipei, it took only 20 minutes, costing NT$125.

Bullet train

Then, we headed to the National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall. Main activity: Camwhoring

'Freedom Square'

Trying to capture a pigeon, haha~

A couple of police buses and cars were stationed there as there was a protest nearby.. GUNJIONG!!!

Next stop was Yehliu Geopark. Here we could found a lot of stones in amazing shapes due to 'hakisan ombak'.

女王头

仙女鞋

It was so windy when we were at Yehliu that most of our umbrella were 'certified'. My MICKEY umbrella... sob sob~~~

Lunch time! We arrived at Jiu Fen to have our lunch and of course, continued exploring.

Our lunch - 'teo chew' fishball noodle (the fishball was HUGE!!!)

Master in making 0-carina (a musical instrument like recorder or flute)

He's playing the tune of 'Colours of the Wind' (One of my fav~~)

There were a lot of other food such as BBQ sotong, fried mushroom, potato & yam balls. And we went to a shop named 阿信 to purchase Taiwan food such as pudding, mua-chi, rice crackers with various types of seeds and 黑金刚 (black groundnuts).

We continued our day by visiting the Nantien Temple. Nearby the temple, there were many stalls selling 花生 + ice-cream roll.

Big block of 花生糖 used in making the roll.

The aunty making 花生 + ice-cream roll for us

After the delicious and 'tongue-numbing' 花生 + ice-cream roll, we headed for the last stop for the day, Ami Aboriginal Cultural Village (阿美文化村). We had an enjoyable time watching a few musical dances about the Taiwan native people. From the show, I learned that in the past, when a couple of native people wanted to get married, the bridegroom needed to carry his bride on his back from the bride's house back to the bridegroom's house (Mind you, people that time might be living mountains apart, haha). Guess, men at that time had to train his stamina first before planning to marry a girl. =)

With one of the dancers at the end of the show

Before checking in to the hotel for the second night, we dinnered. The dinner specialty that night was bamboo rice. The bamboo rice needed to be broken open by smashing it on a brick. You need violence in order to eat the rice, lols

Bamboo rice

End of second day journey.