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Yeah Day 6. We have gotten out of bed very late, thanks to my roommaties. This day was a long trip, it was to KeeLung via Train, and then a not so short Taxi ride to JiuFen, and another Not so short ride to YehLiu. It was tiring.

So first up, we go to Taipei Trainstation, and bought a ticket to KeeLung. If I remember correctly the train comes at a 30 mins interval, so somehow its ok we are late. Its cheap too.

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Upon reaching there, we were alittle lost. but luckily theres this tourist outlet and friendly people to assit us as to how to go to Yehliu then to Jiufen. So the guys there helped us get a “trusted” cab, (instead of getting chopped by other taxi) and we head down towards the 2 places.

1st stop, it was to a Yehliu national Park. We regret not stepping out of the hotel earlier because it was freaking 12pm and very very hot. I was melting. Suggeted to go out by 9am so we can reach here just at 10+ am. We got here at 12pm so it was damn hot. But there’s still quite a lot of visitors though.

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野柳地質公園 / 野柳海洋世界
It’s a natural park along the sea coast, nice view of the sea though. The results of the “mushroom head” the main theme for this park visit, was a result of natural sea erosion through many years causing it to be what it is today. As I cannot embed this, I shall leave this secrecy for you to explore them there. Oh ya there’s this Yehliu Dolphin water theme park, with dolphins and sea animals shows. I hope I could visit that place on the next trip. *Bring a hat and umbrella.

After that at 2 pm, (thank god there’s 7 Eleven, I was out of body salt and almost fainted!) we went towards Jiufen. Rounding and circling the natural hills and mountains, the lady Taxi driver took us a tour and some of the famous sea spots. I remember seeing people doing parachuting flying around and beach sports. We also saw the YinYang sea.

Finally we reach Jiufen at around 3+pm. I didn’t know what it was, but afterGreat view while we drove up the mountains (it was scary) then finally we’ve reached Jiufen. Its basically a place on top of the hills, many inter-link hills, nice scenary, and I thought it would be great if we could stay there for a night. For some reasons if there’s a tsunami, I think it probably won’t hit us.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Jiufen#b

There’s a never ending stretch of shops where I’ve bought a famous Jiufen snacks, and only available in Jiufen. And again I leave it to you guys. So we ended our trip at about 5+. Instead of taking a cab from Jiufen all the way back to our start point Keelung, we took a bus instead. It was a very long ride, like 45 mins, but along the way, as a tourist I got to see much of Taipei though, with a nap…

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Finally back to Keelung. Ahh. I still need a train trip back to Taipei main city before heading to our hotel.

Wow I was on the bus, my phone rang. my aunt was asking me if I could meet up with her. We had contact but I didn’t had the chance to meet out at Taiwan. Oh yeah. So the first thing when I reach Hotel was to call her back so that I could meet her up for “Dinner”

At 8+, I took a train to DingXi station, for a German Pork Knuckle. It is just a normal restaurant, but on the finer side. You can view it on the map here:

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Then my aunt walked me through to some of the history in Taipei and etc. Oh, and she brought me to the KTV which I’ll be going with her fellow Taipei neighbors. After a heavy dinner we had a 10 minutes down along the road. And before its 11:00pm, we walked back, and finish our night.

And back to hotel