Gold mine and Keelung
Friday, October 20, 2006
Went to Ruifang by railway... having lunch at the food court...
Inside the train...
Taken in front of Rui Fang Railway Station.
Then took bus to Jinguashi (via Jiufen) to visit the Gold Ecological Park...
Taken at the entrance of Jinguashi Gold Museum Area...
It was a gold mine many years ago during Japanese time.., now still can see many old buildings with typical Japanese architecture...
This is one of the display room...
Most of the places were not allowed to take pictures... Here is within the museum area...
This is the tunnel of old gold mine...
We see many real gold there, but no picture are allowed to take, just the largest gold bar is permitted... The largest gold bar in the world (in Guiness's Record), grade 999 weight 220kg!!! Wow!! I never touched something so precious before...
This is the largest gold bar in the world... 99.99% pure!!! 220kg!!!
The mine is located on mountain area, so we have some mountain tracking to see the remnants of mine pieces... View from the mountain is beautiful facing the Pacific Ocean...
The mine is located on mountain area, so we have some mountain tracking to see the remnants of mine pieces... View from the mountain is beautiful facing the Pacific Ocean...
There's a well-known Teapot Hill around there (it really looked like a teapot without the handle), people climb the hill from the other end and came to the gold mine museum side... We met them on the way and turned back realising the trail will lead us to nowhere...
We took bus to Keelung... a small town with lots of food stalls along the roadside...
Still playful...
Keelung City...
There are more variety of food comparing to Shilin night market... We saw a VCD/DVD shop just alllow people above 18 to enter, it sold AV, original copy with subtitle!!! We went in to have a look and most of it are Japanese, like those available on net to download, but i believe the picture quality would be better... :p
We walked around the night market and had our dinner there, it was nice...!
I bought a sport shoes. We went back by train afterwards... The money we spent on transportation today were comparable with what we spend on food...
Labels: Gold, Jinguashi, Keelung, night market, Ruifang, Taipei, Teoh Pak Guan, teopag
posted by teopag @ 11:47 PM,
2 Comments:
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At 6:16 PM,
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PG, 基隆is a very picturesque tourist attractive. A lot of stories were told to us also.
We had a good time at the night market and i can't forget the 黄梨酥 that has a very long history. -
At 2:37 PM,
teopag said...
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Really?! We just remember the night market and the AV shop... Haha... Then must find out the stories now...
