Trip to Yangmingshan
Saturday, February 23, 2008
I went to watch "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" at Ximending 西門町 with Aaron, Gang and Braces in the morning. After that, Aaron and i rushed to Jiantan 劍潭 MRT station to meet Seok Kooi, Frank and Shenq Huey. We have planned to go to Yangmingshan 陽明山together. We went there by bus after having our lunch nearby.
They provide free massage and ginger tea for all the tourist waiting for touring bus at Yangmingshan terminal station. After getting the advice from the staff, we took about 15 minutes walk heading to the flower blooming spot. Due to the cold weather last week, not much flowers bloom, however we managed to see some mountain sakura 山櫻花 along the way.
The theme decoration for the Spring and Bloom Season at Yangmingshan was very beautiful.
Mountain sakura 山櫻花.
陽明山花季2008.
Act cute.., oh i looked fat... >.<
The flower clock 花鐘.
Some snapshots nearby.
It was drizzling the whole day, and i got my shoes wet throughly along the way. We were only managed to go for one destination due to time constraint, we should have come earlier next time. We took the last bus back to town heading to Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall 國立國父紀念館 for CNY Lantern Festival. Aaron left us along the way going for his harmonica practise at TTU leaving three of us having dinner at Aunt Su's Pizza House.
(Actually is Shakey's Pizza lah..., may be (merely my speculation okay, don't sue me please...) "Aunt Su" took over it last time, just like Domino's Pizza took over all the outlets in Malaysia... ;p)
Those lanterns there were very beautiful comparable to last year one which was held at National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall 國立台灣民主紀念館 (formerly known as Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall 國立中正紀念堂).
We were so disappointed for not be able to find the lanterns set up by Malaysian Tourism Board at International Lantern Area. May be all had been dismantled and removed. Those lanterns in this exhibition area were elegant and beautiful in the previous year.
Labels: Chinese New Year, Taipei, Taiwan, Teoh Pak Guan, Vacation, Yang Ming Shan
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