Taiwan - Day 5

A brand new day for a brand new start.

I took some shots from the public bus on our way from our hotel to the MRT station and then we had to take the MRT and alight and changed to another bus.
Guess where we headed?










The famous 阳明山 Yangmingshan



We were lucky enough to be at the mountain on the last day of their Flower Festival and got to see the various beautiful cherry blossoms aka Sakura!







And in Taiwan you get to see all the Funny English to make you laugh and feel happy.




I dono what Samuel was trying to do...

Anyway, we climbed up the mountain and it was bloody tiring.. we climbed like 2km uphill, on the roads and through shortcuts in the woods.





And I thought this was a FOX.


This was what i discovered.




We finally reached high but not the top of the mountain.


And we took a bus up to this small old rundown shop which serves some food that only they sell.. Like the SUPER-THICK-SKINNED chicken and bla bla bla... that's the only thing i can remember cos the chicken skin was so fat, thick and hard that it cannot be torn or bitten apart. I guess it's because their chickens are reared uphill and the weather is so cold and to adapt themselves, the chicken's fats all grow on their skin to protect themselves from the cold.






Then we took a bus down to a public hot spring. It is the most traumatic scene I've ever seen in my life. I'm sorry I'm not accustomed to their culture. I saw a big bunch of old women all naked in the crampy hot spring. Scariest scene ever. We walked out. Same with the guys. HAHA. But I wonder what they saw.


Alrite then we settled for private hot spring in a hot spring hotel... Really cannot dip in for too long, my head gets dizzy like lizzy. It was really HOT and I couldn't get in it for a while until I set my heart to dip in it. It was above 40 degree celsius. You may think it's nothing. Try it yourself.


Then we travelled back to Danshui and went to Old Street to shop. The guys and girls split up to do their own shopping and our only means of communication?
Walkie Talkie.




Thanks to the guys, they bought so many Fireworks.
YEAH We put fireworks!!!

We used the Hotel's bicycles and cycled somewhere...






It feels very cold to cycle by the beach at night.. it's like cycling in 10 degree celsius with the freezing wind blowing against you and your bare face. AND we cycled past a police check to a bridge where there were some barricades blocking, stopping people from going further out to the bridge.
It feels as if there's no law and we moved the barricades and cycled to near the end of the bridge where there are ships at sea and we could see the lighthouse and put our FIRST fireworks.



It feels damn exciting until the end of our first fireworks.
Suddenly, there was a very loud SIREN where the whole village could hear. Then the coastguard said some hokkien words through the loud speaker which the whole village could hear, something which we knew didn't welcome us to put the fireworks on the bridge. That very moment, we quickly CIAO with our bicycle and cycled off through the muds and all.
PHEW.
Luckily we didn't end up in some police station.

Life goes on...

Damn exciting and fun.
BEST EXPERIENCE IN TAIWAN.