Invest来 Invest去 .....: 2008

First night
Chocolate box hostel!! It's nice, clean and homely. The owners are really nice too!

Jimmy, Lam and us in the living room

After Checking in, we went to Shida night market to eat, it was just behind the hostel. Then we went to Room18 near NYNY Taipei 101.

Us at room 18!!~ A lot of Tw meimeis!!
There's this 马甲秀 that night which Ber wanted to go see :P It was great!

Day 2

Breakfast 豆浆油条。。

Went to Shida university

Walked around the School..

Went to a park! saw Squirrels!

OMG so cute!

So many of them

*Drools

Uncle feeding the Squirrel

CKS memorial

Went to 西門町 to walk walk, Lam( the hostel guy) said there are 援交妹 ard the MRT exit 6 towards ximending area abt 3000NT for 1. Don't wait around the area if you're there or people will think you're a 援交妹.. haha..lots of clothes, there are occasionally beggars in the centre square and a fatty guy dancing on the Sony platform in front of the Plasma Tv screen.He's one of the "attractions" also .. haha..watch out for him if you go there.

then we ate Donuts!

Then we went to 公馆 Nite market..

超大葱饼！Eat until very full..

Then eat some more

鸡排！

羊肉菜

Then on the way back.. eat some more..

Mixed fruits Dessert! for 3

Day 3 Alishan

Took HSR about 1.5hrs compared to normal train 3.5hrs to Chiayi, where Charlies liu , our tour guide was waiting

HSR train

Inside the train

Met with our guide, had Famous Chicken rice, then went to fruit stall to buy fruits

That guy is Charlies liu!

The melons are damn big!!
Went to see some bridges..

天长 Bridge..

地九 bridge lower down..
Walk both bridge will 天长地久...

Charlies liu! Alishan 车神， he drives damn fast!~

View from above the mountain.It's foggy, and cold.

Our room. It's freaking cold at night.

View from the room

Receptionist

Their dogs, 小虎，老花 and 小花

Walked ard the shops of 奋起胡 and the some tracks.
奋起胡 station where we saw Yagiza when we were taking the forest train back the next day, but she didn't see us..

People cooking Bamboo

Chickens sleeping on the perch

Ate 阿良火车便当 with Bamboo soup for dinner. Charlies Liu packed our leftovers for the dogs.

Went to some other home restaurant to eat 爱玉，Chinese Jelly nice!

Me through the fog

Day 4 Alishan

Internet Access

Common area

me coming down the stairs

好想告诉我的她，这里像副画

阿里山Forest Recreation area.. Bring Student ID, Half price!!

Us and Charlies Liu!

Train station

Had a heavy Breakfast. The Gal thought we wanted more guotie, then gave us like 3 plates.

Alishan rail, it would be really nice in Cherry blossom season when the 樱花 are in Full bloom

Us in front of a hole in a tree trunk

Me acting cool at the Big Sister pond.

Tree trunk that looks like a pig

Walking the forest trail, hiked for about 2hrs..

3 Generation tree

Hole in a tree

Tree that looks like an elephant

Food!!

Bamboo chicken

On the forest train back! 3.5 hrs to Chiayi

View from Train.. It's really a Forest TRAIN!!

Went to buy Chiayi's Turkey Rice cos it's everywhere, we thought we gave it a try.

Waiting for train at Chiayi Rail

Turkey Rice we ate on the Train

Me on the train back to Chiayi.. Pretending to Msg someone.

Checked in at Taiwanmex. It's named Taiwanmex because, Raul's Mexican and his wife is Taiwanese, so Taiwanmex!! cool!

Went to try 肉棕，四神汤。。for supper

Day 5

Had 汤包 some 蛋饼 and 豆浆 for Breakfast

Went to Taipei underground mall to play some basketball games

199NT jeans!

When to Ximending to walk again!

Had Duck noodle

went to 国父纪念堂

There are a lot of hiphop dancers practicing outside the memorial hall. Some of them are cute mei meis!! Slurps

Sun Yet sun

View from the memorial hall

Taipei 101 nearby

Hourly Changing of the guards.
The Green is army, the white is Navy, the three Branches, Army, Navy and Airforce take turns doing shifts guarding the statue
We saw the 5 pm changing of the guards

Not bad wor..

Went up to Taipei 101!!! Go to the fifth floor to buy tixs! Bring student pass, got discount!

View from on top

Interior of the viewing room

Ahh it's so tall!

101om/min Elevator!

View of the building at the outdoors observatory

Sunset on top 101

Wind Damper!!

Wind Damper info tilted sideways!!

Same LOVE as the love outside glasshouse Fish and co

太帅

Infested with People!!

Wufengpu

Then we crossed the Street to a bridge to go to Raohe night market

绕河night market It's the second best of all the night markets we went to compared to Shilin.

Me finally tearing off my old screen

Asking the uncle to put the handphone protector

Took a train back for 18NT It's faster than the Metro mrt.

Day 6

Had Ham Egg roll

Took an inter-area train to Keelung

Keelung!!

Raining weather

Took a bus to Yeliu , bring coins! Coins are needed to take the bus

Cute dog at Yeliu

Yeliu

View from Yeliu harbour

Yeliu Park!

GeoRocks

I'm looking far away, I'm look so cool

Seeing the rocks!!

Famous Queen head at Yeliu

Seafood Lunch at Yeliu

Yum!

Sweet oranges

Omg what's that!!

OMG a Dead pufferfish!

Took a bus from Yeliu to Ruifang

Wanted to go to jing gua shi to dig gold

But it's closed on mondays and it opens until five on other days, so our planning is flawed! Should have gone to jing gua shi on other days in the morning

Took a bus to Jiufeng to walk

Streets of Jiufeng

Ice cream peanut roll

Tastes nice

View from top of Jiufeng

Some bobo chacha thingy

Big Fish ball at Jiu feng, forgot to take picture, so left 1

Took a bus back from jiufen to Taipei

槟榔妹! on the way back to Taipei

Drop off at Zhong xiao fu xin

SMRT should consider installing these

鲜芋仙！ Ber admiring the cute girl making his drink

We went into a Convinence shop and at a discreet corner in the back they were selling Jap AV videos, Dildos and Vibrators! Ber wanted to get.. but was shy :P

Huaxi Jie

Salted Chicken stall

The salted chicken

More food!

FOOD!

Day 7

Mac Pancake Breakfast

Bus to Yangming shan from Taipei Rail Station
This bus uses the Ezcard tap.

Yang ming shan

15NT per bus ride, can use Ez card too! Didn't buy the unlimited rides for 60 cos we only took 3 rides

Ber!! Excited about the Greenery!

Wah damn pro rite

Trail up Mt Dadun

Looks near and short right? but it's damn tiring up

0.5km more! omg!

Bee!

On top of the mountain!

Scenery is beautiful. Nice big winds

Pavilion near the top

On the way down

Help Man! Don't take a pic of me and Xiao qing..

Releasing Xiao qing back to the wild

OMG Guangming road!!!

Took a bus from yangming shan to Beitou to try some hotsprings

Went to a mixed Public hotspring! 40NT only!

Food being sold outside

After that we took a bus to 淡水
to see sunset

Fisherman's Wharf

The bridge at fisherman's Wharf

Sun setting

View from the shops besides the bridge

Cute baby birds on the nest listening to Jay chou music playing from the shops

Super Big 鸡排! Too bad they don't cut it

Sun setting.. So nice

View from the harbour

Lights at the bridge

Took a boat ride to 北投老街 which is near the MRT

View from inside the boat!

Tall Ice cream

北投老街

Went to Shilin after that , it's the best nite market imho(in my honest opinion), then there are makeshift shops ard 11+ in the centre of the 2 shops streets It's interesting, when the police comes, the whole makeshift shops "disappears" within 10 sec, the guy just closed his bags and walked away with his table legs as if he was one of the shoppers. The same goes for the food shops, we were walking to some of the illegal food stalls, then suddenly all their lights got turned off,then some of the shop owners moved their carts to somewhere else. I thought it was a blackout but I went to buy a stick of fishball and kakashi asked if they're closing, the auntie said in chinese " 跑警察“ lolx