Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Proposed itinerary for the 1st day in taiwan

For our 1st day in taipei, below are my proposed itinerary. 

Possibly we will reach taipei at around 9something, then get through custom collect our bags, take some must shoot photos for -Yeah-I-Have-Reach-Taipei shots.. then off we go to our hotel. I suppose it will be noon before we can start our itinerary.

so 12 noon - find for food! (must check out what is the local famous food around our hotel area)
then around 2 off we go to Taipei 101-  buy observatory ticket, and plan to go up at around 5pm to catch sunset , observatory deck has an outer floor, meaning, can see the view without being blocked by glass..

Then the time between that to 5, walk around taipei 101 inside or outside, own leisure..

After seeing the sunset, then off we go to Huaxi Street Nightmarket, near Longshan Temple. 1st nightmarket in taiwan. Famous for its snake delicacies.. hahahhaa.. Besides that it is also famous for its Danshu Noodle, cuttlefish thick soup just to name a few, after makan and walk walk then off we go back to Ximending,

11pm reach ximending, enjoy the night life in taiwan top night life spot, cafe, ximending walking street.

Then when everyone is tired, off we walk back to our hotel ... 

Thursday, March 17, 2011

taipei 4th day - Yehliu, Jiufen, Miaokou Nightmarket (Keelung)

I have made some changes in our taiwan itinerary, especially on day 3 and day 4.

Initially, we plan to go Jiufen and Shifen on the third day. But i found out that both these two places are quite far from each other. Therefore, i plan to shift our Jiufen to the third day, along with Yehliu and Miaokou Nightmarket on the 4th day.

The proposed itinerary for the 4th day would be something like this.

9am Go to Taipei Main Station, outside of it, there is a bus station, go to Counter 19, for bus Guogang to Yehliu. Cost around NTD 92. (RM10). spend time till noon

12something to Jiufen
-go back to the place where we alighted the bus (from taipei), then go to the opposite road conveniece store for buses to Keelung. Buses to Keelung will stop for Jiufen. NTD 43.
-famous for yam ball, grill mushroom, teahouse
-at the end of Jiufen street, there is this Suichi street on the right, famous for its red lantern
-at the end of Suichi street, there is bus stop for Keelung.
-lunch and jalan jalan in that area till evening, 7 something...

8pm to Mioukou Nightmarket, Keelung
- dinner , jalan jalan
- Mioukou Nightmarket is around Dianji Temple.
-most famous pastry shop in Taiwan, Lee Hu Pastry shop since 1882.


11pm..Keelung Main station to Taipei Main station (train)
- take Tze Chiang, taiwan bullet train back to Taipei. NTD 100, around 45minutes ride
- back to hotel

a simple advice

plan what you want
do what you have planned
never regret on what you have done.