The number one place that I wanted to visit at Taiwan, is
JiuFen九份,
the birthplace, or we say, the main concept, where Sen to Chihiro no
Kamikakushi,千与千寻 got the idea from. I saw from lots of sources from the
net, all saying how is it there. Watched videos and imagined times in my mind.
Most of them would comment that the place is not as nice as it was thought, but
since I knew how it looks like, through videos, I still find it very
interesting and a quite 神圣 place for me. So
after visiting this place, with a whole lot more of wonderful-amazing-crazy
memories, I have to say no regret for coming Taiwan I guess.
But before that, I have to say I gave up on another even
more important event, for this day. I gave up on queuing for 红白艺能大赏,
which BTS came. I have to admit I’m so damn upset and down when I realized how hard
is it and how much is it impossible for me to go in there, to see them. But
yea, sometimes when we lose something, we will get another thing as exchange.
Thinking on the good side, we’re blessed enough to be able to come here to
Taiwan. A big thank you to coach who made my day better, who made me feel that
giving up queuing is okay and is worth it.
So our trip didn’t just go straight to JiuFen, we visited
all the places all the small divisions that we passed through before we got to
JiuFen, which was unexpected! Before we start our journey, we stopped at a
stall by the road, but was very recommended for breakfast, 面线, it’s
a must eat food here at Taiwan, and I’m giving a big thumbs up!
Next we stopped at 深坑老街, Taiwan has a lot of old streets
which called 老街, they kept the places just like how it looks like years
ago, and every 老街 have its worthy part to visit. Stopped for a while just
for a small rest after quite a distance, had 青蛙爱玉 (loving their this kinds
of drinks here at TW) and also challenged for the second time for 臭豆腐,
this time its barbequed, together with TW type of kimchi, still bearable LOL.
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| all 老街 looks almost like this |
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| smelly why people so like LOL |
Another stop was quite long, we stopped at 十分, a
place with very nice bridge, railway, place for putting sky lantern too. It was
also considered as a 老街, there’s lots of people foreign visitors here too. Just
after we reached, I tried 红豆饼, a kind of traditional snack(?) at
TW here. Went to the souvenir shop, bought something, also postcards. Sent back
on the spot too!
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| ignore bloated face messy hair blame the long journey |
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| sending greetings back ~ |
Since that day can also be consider as the start of the year
of 2016, of course must put sky lantern to wish for something nice and for 2016
being smooth! (will put it even its not new year haha) It was ‘well packaged’ ,
you can choose from just a color or four different color for each sides. We
wrote it at the side of the railway road, and the train really did went through
while we’re writing. Quite an amazing experience! The staffs there will also
help you to take pictures, even teach you like how to pose LOL Damn
professional, and the pics will all come out quite nice (depends on how you
look, which mine was not that nice due to face problem LOL)
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| can see the train passing through while I'm writing |
Got 麦芽饼, which Taiwanese will usually eat as snacks when they’re
young (?) The crackers are a bit salty, which goes well with the malt sugar, not too sweet. Nice. Love.
Then we stopped again at 瑞芳, coach actually wanted to
eat a kind of food, but we’re not that lucky, meeting it not open on that day.
But we got 凤凰腿and米肠,凤凰腿taste nice, but 米肠even
though people here like it much, but for me its just 糯米made
into stick shape LOL
Finally we’re at JiuFen, seriously the scenery all way to
here is damn breathtaking and speechless. All of those can’t be captured can’t
be described and can only be felt I guess. Every second I felt blessed being
able to reach here, not that I’m too emotional too 夸张 or
what,.
The place used to be full of gold, but now since the digging
work went too dangerous they stopped doing so. The place was literally people
mountain people sea, we were squeezing through the whole time.
We walked straight up just going through the shops, at the end the top there's an elementary school. The scenery was calming you can see the whole scenery down the hill. The way down, we went in through the shops that we were aiming while we walked up. Got lots of things that I like and also tried foods that's so yummy, no regret coming all the way here and squeezing with the crowds!!!
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| Must try taro balls really a MUST TRY! |
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| Cream puff yummm |
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| coffee with alcohol I'm loving this combination |
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| a small shop selling old times snacks |
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| One of the sweets I never tried before |
All the way there and back took almost the whole day. We reached back to the town center in the evening and stopped at Carrefour
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