Taipei Part 4

4th Jan 2009 - Shopping

Made our way to Tian Mu to search for PS BU BU~

it's a car themed restaurant where one scene from "Meteor Garden" was filmed.

the counter~

a lot of artists came here too!

snowman for snow girl, haha :-D

the only full car in the restaurant, seems like one have to make reservations to get this seat.

we only have the back seat of a car~

all in all, it does have a nice environment.

walked all the way down to Tian Mu Circles to shop at the Tian Mu flea market.

Bought a series of Slam Dunk Comic (31 book) for NT900. hoho.. ^.^

Went to Eslite Bookstore to get Jimmy Liao's book as well. =)

After that, we went to Shi Da Night Market for dinner.

One of the nicer dinner we had in night markets so far~

Had a hard time finding Ice Monster, it wasn't that near to Shi Da as expected.
We had to walk quite a distance and it wasn't very visible.

Enjoyed Kiwi Ice

and a new dessert

When we wanted to take a bus back to our hotel, we didn't know which direction to take and end up missing the bus.

To our surprise, no bus seem to drive by. And, it was a slow 1 hour of wait.
No wonder so many Taiwanese has their own scooter.

5th Jan 2009 - Rainy day

Hate rainy days when we go out. =(

Was full of expectation when we make our way to Yang Ming Shan,

But, was quite disappointed with what we saw. Maybe it's the rain. hmm..

It was a great walk of 600m from the bus station to the Visitor Centre. And, to our surprise, it was not open on Monday.

What luck we had.

No visitor center = no map

We even had to walk to the Police Station to get a map. Lol

Someone else's luck is worse than us. hmm

Wanted to get out of this place quickly, but the bus intervals was pretty long, 40 minutes to 1 hour.

Finally, we board the mini bus (small 9) to Xinbeitou.

we were super hungry, so quickly settled for Yoshinoya

seems like a more classy version compared to ours.

Rested there for around an hour before making our way to the nearest hot spring hotel.

Found this Sweetme Hotspring Resort.

Got to enjoy our hotspring for free as we got the voucher from the Taiwan Tourism Board.

Of cos, no photos are allowed.

This is the very first time that we entered a hotspring (furthermore, it's not those private ones)! And, most importantly we had to wear the emperor's new clothes. Lol, if you know what I mean. It was super embarrassing initially. But, after a while, we managed to settle ourself down and enjoy the hotspring.

Very relaxing I would say~

The facilities seem a lot. There had a variety of hotspring with different temperatures and 2 saunas as well.

After the relaxation, we got to dry ourself and our wet clothes.

However, it was still drizzling when we made our way to our next stop - Dan Shui.

We wanted to visit the Yu Ren Ma Tou.

Seems like it's snowing in the picture yea~ haha