Showing posts with label Taipei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taipei. Show all posts
Friday, February 3, 2023
Yehliu Geopark, Taiwan
Yehliu Geopark is exactly located at No. 167-1 Kangton Road, Yeh Liu Village, New Taipei, Taiwan.
How to get to Yehliu Geopark?
Go to Taipei West Bus Station Terminal A located at Taipei Main Station, go to KuoKuang window and purchase a ticket for NT$96 to Yehliu Geopark. It will take you around an hour and a half to get to your destination.
Ticket price at Yeh Liu Geopark is NT$80
Yehliu stretches with a cape of 1700 kilometers long and is known for its eroded rock formations. The most famous formation is the Queen's head. If you are part of a tour, better purchase beforehand. The queue for the ticket may waste your time. Everywhere has photobombers so act and take photos quickly for every rock formation. The park is really amazing, beautiful and very well maintained.
Scenery was picturesque and would definitely recommend not to miss this place!
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei
The construction began in October 1976 and completed in April 1980. The memorial park covers an area of 240,000 square meters. The main gate, tagged as the Gate of Great Centrality and Perfect Uprightness was placed at the west end on Chun Sang South Road, with a Gate of Great Loyalty at the north side on Hsin Yi Road and a Gate of Great Piety at the south side on Ai Kuo East Road.
The memorial hall is covered with the colors of the Taiwan flag, blue, white and red that symbolizes independence, equality and universal love.
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| The National Concert Hall |
The octagon-shaped roof of the building symbolizes abundance and good fortune in Chinese. The building also has 89 steps representing Chiang Kai-Shek's age of death.
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| The National Theatre |
Chiang Kai-Shek is located at No. 21 Zhongshan Road, Zhongsheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan. You can reach it through MRT Green or Red Line Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall Station. The hall is open from 9AM to 6PM.
Monday, June 1, 2020
Shilin Lantern, Taipei, Taiwan
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| That's Norman, our bubbly Klook guide... we must be back by 345PM =) |
We got this Shifen, Jiufen, Yehliu tour via Klook for only Php907 (with Yehliu Geopark entrance and meals-peanut roll ice cream and chicken with rice meal to be claimed at Shifen). The best time to travel Taiwan is from December to February with average temperature from 13 to 15 degree Celsius.
Shifen is located at Pingxi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. They have an annual lantern festival at Pingxi, at Shifen Square to be exact. People write their wishes on lanterns and release them to the skies during Pingxi International Lantern Festival. But every day of the year you can always write your wishes here. Include Shifen Old Street in your day tour to get a glimpse of an old railroad town that became really popular because of the Shifen lanterns. There are several souvenir shops, stalls selling snacks and local food and trains that run through tracks every hour.
My kids are the ones writing their wishes so our lantern is a mess =)
Lantern Prices:
1 color - NT$ 150
4 colors - NT$ 200
8 colors - NT$ 250
Lantern colors and meaning:
Red - health (peace)
White - future (brightness)
Blue - career (promotion)
Yellow - money (wealth)
Purple - study (test)
Orange - love (marriage)
Green - vigor (success)
Magenta - attraction (popularity)
Pink - bliss (joy)
Purple - study (test)
Orange - love (marriage)
Green - vigor (success)
Magenta - attraction (popularity)
Pink - bliss (joy)
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| peanut roll with ice cream |
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| the long queue of claiming our chicken with rice |
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| our super yummy late lunch chicken with rice, worth the wait! |
How to get to Shifen?
Take the Green Line MRT Station to Songshan, Transfer to Songshan TRA Line and stop to Ruifang Station then transfer to Shifen Station.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Shilin Night Market, Taiwan
Shilin Night Market is one of the most popular markets in Taiwan. I should say it is the biggest night market of all night markets in Taipei. It is a must visit in Taiwan.
The easiest way to get to Shilin Market is through LRT train Red Line to Jiantan Station. Walk at exit 1 then cross the street to the left. Shilin Market is located near Jiantan Station and not at Shilin.
We stopped at Shilin LRT train station and not Jiantan during our Taipei visit. From Shilin Station, we just followed our very reliable google map to get to the night market, it was a long walk indeed.
If you have already exited Shilin Station. Take a long walk from here. There are signs at streets that will lead you to the market.
We arrived at around 5pm and there are a fewer people buying snacks, souvenirs, clothing, footwear, toys and all others. When 7pm striked, the streets got really crowded!
Shilin has a full variety of mouth-watering street food at an affordable price...
Foods to try at Shilin Night Market:
1. Hometown barbeque chicken
2. Oyster omelette
3. Scallion pancake
4. Stinky tofu
5. Mee Sua
6. Grilled squids
7. Taiwan sausages
8. Sugar-coated fruits
9. Milk teas/bubble teas
10. Pepper beef buns
11. Fried baked potato
12. All others
1. Arrive earlier to explore more of Shilin
2. It is where we bought the cheapest souvenir ref magnets, key chains and shirts so bring a lot of cash.
3. Try every food in Shilin.
4. Dont miss the Hometown barbeque chicken, cheaper in price but bigger in taste!
5. You will always get lost, google map can be trusted.
There is so much to see here at Shilin night market. This is the perfect place to shop and eat!
Happy shopping!
