Monday, December 19, 2016

Taiwan Day 7: Beitou/ Dan Shui/ Shilin

After breakfast, we took the train to Bei Tou and change to a special train heading to Xin Bei Tou.
Bei Tou is famous for their hot spring.
We walk around the tourist routes in Bei Tou before settle down for a hot spring experience.
We choose Beauty Age Hot Spring Hotel.
They offered one hour private room hot spring for NTD540/ hour.
It's a small room with small table and sofa. There's TV too.
Basic amenities provided were hair dryer, towels, shampoo, soaps etc.
This is the bath tub for the hot spring.
I was so curious does the hot water comes out is really from hot spring. Lol.
After our 1 hour refreshing hot spring experience, we headed back to the train station.
On the way, we saw this Japanese ramen restaurant and wanted to give it a try.
Beside the restaurant, there's a stall selling onsen eggs. We decided to buy 1 packet, before the sales persuaded us to purchase 3 packets in order to be entitle for a lucky draw.
So we bought 3 packets and have 'fun'with the lucky draw.
End up the prize was just a piece of mochi. I repeat, A PIECE.
Imagine how cheated we felt, as when they show us the gifts, its all come in a box.

Nevertheless, we had our lunch at the Japanese ramen restaurant.
Seaweed ramen.
Big slice of boneless pork chop.
Pork chop ramen.
All above cost NTD350. Taste and portion was OK.

We then took the train to Dan Shui.
We walked around and bought many packets of ginger tea and nougat.
Taiwan nougat is really tasty!

Then when night falls, we headed to Shilin night market.
Didn't manage to get anything from here.
We are kind of disappointed with this place too as the people here are not friendly.
Too commercialized, I guess.

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