We paid a visit to Yang Ming Shan, which is located on the Beitou station.
We missed the 10am 230 bus up Yang Ming Shan, thus we had to loiter around the bus station to wait for the 1030am bus.
Finally reached Yang Ming Shan after another terrifying bus ride.
We kind of wasted 1 hr walking to Yang Ming Park, as we mistook Yang Ming Shan Park for Yang Ming Park.
Thus, in the end, we had to walk back to the Yang Ming Shan Bus Station and take bus 108 to go up Yang Ming Shan.
Scary ride up the mountains. The mini bus drivers were all females - who says only males can be Chiu Ming Shan Che Shen?
According to the park warren at the visitor centre, we must go and see the 2 male ducks swimming in the pond in Er Zi Ping. There was supposed to be females ducks too, but they got eaten up by the wild dogs roaming the area. Since only the males are left, how are they going to reproduce? Brokeback mountain, heehee. Quite an adapt description, since they are really situated in the mountains - LAME =)
Pic 1: Ducks swimming lesisurely in the water.
Pic 2: Duck 1 whispered to Duck 2 - I think someone is taking our pictures. Let's get out of here.
Pic 3: Ducks making a turn.
Pic 4: Ducks swimming away from us =(
This place is nice, with beautiful scenery of the trees and flowers. However, we were too cold to enjoy, thus, we just snapped a few pictures and left the place.
We walked back to the visitor centre of Er Zi Ping to wait for the shuttlebus to take us to Xiao You Keng, which is a place to see the volanic features of YMS. However, it was very cold, since we are at the top of Seven Star Mountain and fog started to form. Managed to capture some picture of Xiao You Keng before the fog sets in. Oh, the place smells like rotten eggs, due to the presence of sulphuric acid.
We decided to abandon our next 2 stops: Leng Shui Keng and Qing Tian Kang as it was starting to rain. Another regret, must visit YMS next summer to watch the cherry blossoms and the flowers.
Seventeenth Stop: New Beitou (Hot Spring)
It's a rush to New Beitou Station for the hot spring.
We were searching for this particular hotel's hotspring that I found in the internet. However, after walking 1 round, we gave up. It's here that we came across this library smacked in the middle of the park. The library is housed in a genial wood building with an environmentally friendly design, offering a perfect spot to enjoy a book in the beauty of nature. Wow, library + park = nice combination, not bad leh.
Tried the hotspring at this Sweetme Hotel.
It's a private suite which cost NT$840 for 1.5 hrs. Nice ambience and I really liked the hotspring in this super cold weather. Refreshing.
Eighteenth Stop: Danshui + Lover's Bridge
It was already over sunset when we finished the hotspring. Thus, we missed catching the sunset at Danshui. Nevertheless, we still made a trip down to Danshui, since the hopeless romantic me wanted to walk on the Lover's Bridge.
Took the ferry from Danshui to the Lover's Bridge. It costs NT$50 per person one-way. The ferry ride was ok, but we stayed inside the boat, sheltered from the strong winds.
Famished by the time we reached the Lover's Bridge. It dawned on us that we had no food since our breakfast. Saw this stall selling spicy smelly beancurd + fishballs and devoured them in less than 3 mins. The spicy smelly beancurd actually tasted quite nice, plus, it doesn't smell of SHIT, haha. The Leecher quite like it
Before setting foot on Lover's Bridge ..
Told the Leecher must hold hands while walking the Lover's Bridge, heehee.
There is a plaque with "Qing Ren Qiao", of cuz must take picture with it.
This is another place of regret, as I think I lost my newly top-up Easycard on the Bridge. Good-bye my trusty Easycard ~Tried their braised food, but somehow, it doesn't taste that nice. Think it's too salty for my liking. But the chilli is good, super spicy. Wanted to find the prince noodles to bring back to Singapore, but can't seem to locate it.
Took the last ferry back to Danshui. Almost got a fright when water started to splash all over the boat as we were approaching the port. The ferry was rocking left to right. Initially, we thought it was pouring, but it turned out that there was a high tide. Gosh, almost scared the hell out of me.
Tried the famous "tall" ice-cream. Well, it's supposed to be tall, but since we were quite full from the food just now, we settled for the semi one that costs NT$10.
We didn't get to try Ah Gei - another regret. Well, that makes me wanna visit Taiwan soon, so that I can get to visit the places that I didn't go and try the food that I have missed. Metro ride back to Ximending with 2 boxes + 2 bags full of food.
Feeling sad because it's the last day in Taiwan tml =(
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