Taiwan Day 6 (18.12.14) - 十分放天灯/台北血拼

Breakfast was provided by the mingsu. Simple and nice,I love their plain porridge with pork floss.

Having breakfast at Jane Castle

Day view of Jane Castle

On our way to Taipei, we saw this patch of land with a lot of smiling sunflowers waving to us. So we had no choice but to take some pictures with them.

Us and the 'beautiful' sunflowers...🌻

The ugly truth of the beautiful scene...壮烈牺牲的sunflowers 🌻

Around noon, we reached

与十分瀑布无缘，只好在附近拍照留念咯!

We went for lunch nearby before proceeding to ShiFen for the sky lantern. (十分放天灯)

There were quite a few stalls selling the sky lanterns. We just stopped at the 1st stall that was nearest to us and we took the multi-coloured sky lantern. The staff then clipped our lantern on the stand so that we could write our wishes on it. 

Red : Health

Blue : Career

Yellow : $$

Purple : Studies

Orange : Love & Marriage

Green : Prosperous

White : Future

Pink : Happiness

Peach Red : Popularity

We were ready and the staff helped us to take photo with the different sides of our sky lantern.





The lantern contained a small candle when lit by the staff, the heat caused the lantern to glow and rise...



Our lantern went up and up and up...

Hope all our wishes come true...

After that, we checked in to CityInn Hotel Plus XimenDing Station Branch. The Hotel room was sightly more spacious as compared to the previous time and there was even bathtub in the bathroom. Nice!

We start our shopping spree after we have loaded our lugguages in the Hotel. Our first stop is Shin Kong Mitsukoshi.

新光三越

Our dinner was at my favourite restaurant : Kiki Restaurant. All I know is this restaurant was opened by 藍心湄. Remember to book in advance oh...

老皮嫩肉

蒼蠅頭
 



干扁四季豆



苦瓜排骨湯

Address : 4th Floor, 11 High Road Song Xinyi District, Taipei (Eslite living within the mall) 

Phone : 02-2722-0388

Website : http://www.kiki1991.com/main/tw/ 

	Shopping time again after dinner...

Taiwan Day 5 (17.12.14) - 四圍堡車站/幾米公園/小熊書房/Jane橙堡

 Yesterday was nougat and coke, today is 愛心 guava...this is our sweet Mr Zhang.

張先生的杰作. 他说是他自己切的.

For Taichung, we travelled to Yilan and our 1st stop :

宜蘭礁溪四圍堡車站

This place is supposed to display some scenes from the movie "HARRY POTTER". Besides that, they sell interesting pastries, dessert, souvenirs...

地址：宜蘭縣礁溪鄉礁溪路7段72號 (火山爆發雞斜對面)
營業時間：10:00~19:00
電話：03-9871122
其他：免費停車場、免費咖啡提供

More info on Fort Round Station - Hogwarts

We decided to have something simple for lunch after so many days of good food. 



鴨不倒鴨肉面

 地址 ： 宜蘭縣礁溪鄉中山路二段76號

電話 ： 03～988～3131

Their duck guo tiao was nice and most importantly, CHEAP lor...

幾米公園

地址 ： 宜蘭縣宜蘭市光復路1號(宜蘭火車站南侧)

Website : Jimmy Parks

shot 1 - FAILED!!!...cos Ms Tan and Jeh Chun at the camera

shot 2 - PERFECT

祝我一路顺风～～～

Amy and her JIMMY PARK bag

我的导游爱拍照~~~哈哈

没骗人吧! 我的导游超爱拍照的咯!

他是我的，不要跟我抢啊！

好啦！好啦！不要强了啦，都给Ms Tan~~哈哈!

About Jimmy Parks 

Illustrated presents real world, Taiwan's first few meters Park
2013 Yilan tourist highlights - Jimmy Parks, by Ilan county government to re-planning of the old railway quarters, set to the transit center, theme park planning combined installation art, breaking the general Siban Ban RTS impression, so that other vehicles can also be very interesting, and specifically to preserve the historical buildings and shade trees, originally abandoned in space, into a colorful art park, just into picture books, picture books explore meters world.

幾米公園截取三本繪本的圖像來呈現，分別是-向左走。向右走、地下鐵、星空，並以”記憶片刻風景”為主題，期待來此的旅客如何跟這片空間來互動，向左走。向右走的男女主角是否能在宜蘭再次相遇?星空的飛天空車帶你看遍美麗風景、以及小男孩小女孩一起等車的幸福感、還有地下鐵中散落在各處的行李箱，每一個裝置藝術都讓人有無限的想像空間，你能體會其箇中滋味嗎?

轉運站總是給人來匆匆、去匆匆的印象，這次將打破以往的思維，停下腳步多看看四周的美麗景緻，多點微笑、多點記憶，讓旅程不再如此的匆忙，記憶蘭城這片土地、記憶蘭城這微笑地方，深深刻畫在人們心中。

 小熊書房
地址 ： 宜蘭縣冬山鄉大埤二路123巷22号
電話 ： 03～951～0060
Website : http://www.little-bear.com.tw/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/readingbear
 

Behind the bear bear is 梅花湖風景區 .

Waffle with ice-cream

 

 

Outside the restroom

Inside the restroom

 

Nice and cosy environment, just that the location is quite remote. We went there around 5.00pm for our tea break, hence, we were too full for dinner. So we decided to checked in my dream mingsu...Jane Castle.

 

Actually, the mingsu owner has suggested to book another cheaper mingsu (ZhenZhen Mingsu) for Mr Zhang when Ms Tan booked the accommodation before our trip. However, upon arrival, we changed our mind and decided to change Mr Zhang's accommodation to Jane Castle instead. The mingsu owner was so nice, she agreed to our request with no additional cost. 

 

As we have only paid a deposit for booking the accommodation, we had to pay the balance by cash as they do not accept credit card. So I had lesser cash to spend...sob sob...

Night view of the Jane Castle

Our room

Jeh Chun's room

Mr Zhang's room...his room was nicer than ours somemore...so jealous lor.

 

The owner is really very nice and friendly, she showed us the different room in the mingsu. All the rooms are very nice...if I will to come back to Yilan again, I will want to stay here again.

 

Jane Castle

Address: 宜蘭縣五結鄉傳藝路一段425、427號    

電話：(03)950-5015、0972-505-089　　

傳真：(03)950-7218

Website : http://www.janecastle.tw/

 

After that, it's time to look for food. We went to the Lou Dong Night Market.

 

The Luodong Night Market is a night market in Luodong Township, Yilan County, Taiwan. It is one of the biggest and most crowded night market in Taiwan.

 

See the junk food we ate...but it was really nice to eat spicy food on a cold and windy weather.

 

羅東觀光夜市

Address : 265, Taiwan, Yilan County, Luodong Township, Minquan Road

 

We ended our day 5 by taking wefie at Jane Castle.

 

Amy posted in Facebook :"～ 自己做道具。。然後自拍。。再來就是笑不停。。這是咱們的皇后兒另一個心願（除了桃花以外）。。唉。。所以我們。。就只能。。唉。。違抗聖旨是會人頭落地的。"

 

ZZzzzzzz