DAY 2: GOLDEN MOUNTAIN TOWN (金山)
After our long visit at the Yeliu Geopark, we are brought by the tour guide to head for some specialty nearby. We entered the small town which is by the name of Golden Mountain literally translated from the Chinese name 金山.
The town is kinda special and it is alike the rural area where the things sold there is kinda cheap. We are brought to try the duck meat and noodles which is the specialty of the town itself. The stall is located at the JinShan’s GuangAn Temple (金山廣安宮) where you can see a lot of people coming here to have their duck meat. The place is simply packed with people and it is very easy to be spotted as it is just in front of the the JinShan’s GuangAn Temple (金山廣安宮)
DAY 2: YEHLIU GEOPARK (野柳地質公園) VISIT
An early wake up and here we go to start of journey of the day. Our tourguide cum driver (江俊賢) had waited us punctually below our hotel to pick us up to our first destination which is the Yeliu Geopark.
The journey to Yeliu will take approximately an hour plus by car and during the journey, we do enjoy the scenic view of the city itself. The journey was fun where we saw simply a variety of attraction to go too. The weather was good where I can spot the blue blue sky during my journey to there.
I spotted the Taiwan Version of Titanic.Does it looks like one?
Next, the scenic trees which is just branches only. I just love the picture.
Next, we reach Wanli District ( 萬里) and looks like we are getting nearer to our destination where we start to see some of the formations. The skies of the day were so blue as well as the sea are so clear. We do not hesitate to get down the car and looking too see some of the tiny formations too.
And not far from here, we finally reaching Yeliu soon as the rock formation is even nicer.
Day 1 in Taipei
Thanks to Chun Mun for picking up us from our house early in the morning and we headed to the LCCT for this time. We arrived at the LCCT at we had all our checking in done in the counter as well as having the things checking in. We spend about 2 hours in the LCCT starbucks enjoying a cup of hot coffee to boost up our day when we are in Taipei.
After a long wait, the plane had arrived finally. Here we are coming and going to the plane now before it departs to my long awaiting holiday. The journey to Taipei is about 4 1/2 hours where we had our sit in the middle of the Airbus.
Free & Easy Travel Itinerary in Taiwan
We traveled on our own for the trip to Taipei this round except for the first two days where we hired 江俊賢 taxi for NTD 3500/ day . The trip is our first time in Taipei and we went to some interesting places and tourist attraction too for the trip. In this trip, we did not manage to travel to the far places but only some interesting places around the city itself.
Day 1
Arrival in Taoyuan Airport --> Taipei Main Station --> Hotel -> Xi Men Ding (西門町)
Day 2
Hotel -->Yeliu Geopark(野柳地質公園) --> JinShan Town (金山) -->Nanya Peculiar Rock (南雅海岸), Jinguashi (金瓜石) where we visit Yin-yang Sea and the Gold Waterfall --> Jiufen (九份) --> Keelung River (基隆河) --> Keelung's Miaokou Night Market (庙口夜市)
Day 3
Hotel --> Shifen (十分) --> Ping Shi (平溪)-->Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf (Chinese: 淡水漁人碼頭)-->Danshui old street(淡水老街) --> Beitou Hot Springs Park (北投溫泉親水公園) and we had our private hot spring at Beauty Age Hotel (美代) --> Yang Ming San ( 陽明山) --> Shilin Night Market (士林夜市)
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