Travel ♥ Taipei 7 days itinerary
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
A very long-lost couple trip since
May 2019
And this is the trip I look
forward the most in the year 2019
A good Bye to the year 2019 and a
sweet welcome to 2020
And this trip I have budgeted in
RM 5,000 for two
This is how I plan for the trip
Flight:
KUL - TPE China Airline with 30kg
luggage
30 Dec 1425-1900 (4h35m)
6 Jan 0830-1315 (4h45m)
RM2090 for 2
Accommodation:
1. Taipei (30/12 - 01/01 : 2
nights) - RM311.4
2. Tamshui (01/01 - 02/01 : 1
nights) - RM137.47
4F., No.99, Qingshui St., Tamsui
Dist., New Taipei City 251, Taiwan
3. Taipei (02/01 - 03/01 : 1
night) - RM171
No 122, Chang'an West Road, Taipei
Main Station, Taipei, Taiwan 10310
4. Jiufen (03/01 - 04/01 : 1
night) - Double room with breakfast – RM134
No. 219-4, Jishan Street, 224
Jiufen, Taiwan
5. Taipei (04/01 - 05/01 : 1
night) - RM177.94
6. Taipei (05/01 - 06/01 : 1
night) - RM 34.64
2F, No. 413, Linsen North Road,
Zhongshan District, 104 Taipei, Taiwan
Wifi:
RM52.50 Purchase on 11.11 get
11% off original price at RM59
Unlimited data for 8 days, 1
Easycard (needed to topup and choose package) Terminal 1 pickup
Entertainment:
Hot spring spa city spring resort
RM71.75*2 - RM30 =RM113.5
Day One:
Flight arrived in Taipei at 7pm,
no plan for today but then one of my friends is travelling in Taipei. We plan
to meet up at Ningxia night market
We take GuoGuang bus from Taoyuan to
Taipei city center which cost us around NT 300 for two and you can buy ticket
or use MRT card to pay.
Ningxia night market:
This is my top-one night market in
Taipei. This is the most localist night market in Taipei, which recommended by
Taiwanese and friends who studied in Taiwan for years. It is great food and
reasonable price.
Day Two:
Café hopping:
- Choose me café and meals
- 喝什么 café
CKS Memorial hall 國立中正紀念堂, A
famous national monument, landmark and tourist attraction erected in memory of
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (Former president of the Republic of china)
This is free entry to the garden
and park, and ticket is needed for entering the Museum.
And we found 车轮饼 in the way of walking to another attractions
This filled with red bean paste, not very sweet
Ximending shopping district, the "Harajuku" of Taipei, this
pedestrian shopping haven is one of the city's culture centres, hosting a
massive variety of fashion clothing shops, eclectic restaurants, clubs, and
bars.
Christmas
market at new Taipei city government, however this is not really a place that
you must go. The decoration is very nice and there are also have several
Christmas decorations located in different location (nearby) you could discover.
Taipei
101 for 2020 new year count down with a free concert. We have Rainy Yang, may
day and some famous singer count down with us!
Day Three:
We went out to Taipei unknown
alley to find some local breakfast before head to Tamshui.
Tamshui, a romantical place
Tamshui fisherman’s wharf and
lover’s bridge, a tourist attraction but not very impressive. However, the
sunset is spectacular, a good place for photo checking in.
From Tamshui old street (another night
market) I bought a lot food for supper in my room. Best way to end a day.
Day Four:
We travel from Tamshui to Beitou
where is a place that famous in hot spring spa
From
Tamshui MRT to Beitou MRT and then there is a free shuttle bus to and back from
City spring resort
RM 71.89*2 with buy 1 free 1 offer from Klook
Use my refer code to get offer!!
You can also visit to Thermal Valley which is q nice place for sightseeing
It is very hot spring and not for spa
After hot spring spa, we back to Taipei and check in our stay for the night
We went back to Ningxia night market again for dumplings and some snacks
Day Five:
From Taipei take bus to Jiufen
For public transport from MRT zhongxiao-fuxing station and take bus 1062 to jiufen old street.
This options costs NT110 for a person and around 1.5 hours journey
(捷運忠孝復興站。再轉搭公車1062)
https://imreadygo.com/1158 Bus 1062 timetable:https://www.taiwanbus.tw/information.aspx?Line=4479&Lang=En)
Alternatively, the bus 1062 is quite crowded and then about 15mins
for a bus. There have many taxi waiting and asking you if you want to have
private ride around NT200 for a person and around 1 hours journey.
However, they sometimes cheating tourist like telling us the bus
will need around NT150 for a person and 2 hours journey. It very depends on the
condition of traffic. Think before making decision, for me, a budgeted trip, I
would recommend to take bus because once the bus is full, they would not stop
for station afterward.
Or you can choose to take Bus tour
(shifen and jiufen) RM77 https://www.klook.com/activity/2093-jiufen-shuttle-bus-ximen-taipei/?aid=f509f290de638ce8&af_wid=5711&utm_medium=affiliate-alwayson&utm_source=non-network&utm_campaign=5711
Jiufen
Jiufen old street: market from morning to evening around 8pm.
The most famous café in Jiufen: A Mei Teahouse
Optional attractions: Gold Mining Town
Food: Braised Pork Rice (Lu Rou Fan), Taro Ball Soup (NT50 =
RM6.7), A-zhu Peanut Ice Cream (NT40 = RM5.4), Jin Zhi Red Yeast Meat dumpling
(NT45/pc, NT50/Bowl mixing = RM 6.7)
We
planned to go Shifen for sky lantern, which is one of the must go place and
must try thing to do.
You can visit to Waterfall (Niagara Fall), Ping Xi Station (Shifen) – Skylantern and Shi Fen Old Street.
Railway track and Lantern (NT150
for 1 colour and NT200 for 4 colour, each colour is symbolic and represents a wish you’d like to come true; Recycle - Green
skylantern NT350)
Red for good
fortune
Pink for romance
Peach-Red for
decisions and opportunities
Orange for money
Yellow for
success
White for health
Green for growth
Blue for hope
Purple for
idealism
However, Jiufen has quite many thing to see and eat too, if you
plan to have a relax, not rushing trip you can stay in jiufen or choose either visit
to Shifen or KeeLung.
KeeLung, 10km away from Jiufen, have many attractions too for
example, Keelung mountain and 正槟鱼港.
But then we choose to visit its night market. We tried fried
dumplings again, cheesy sweet potato, cheesy octopuses’ ball. What a guilty
supper.
Day Six:
Back to Taipei after breakfast and walk along the jiufen old
street.
There have been some incidents that weren’t as pleasant, which is
the host of a hotel (homestay) didn’t show up and we have to book a new stay immediately.
And finally, we get to manage all thing. We stay in XImending
tonight. Before going to meet another of my friends in Shilin, we went to buy a
cartoon bag that my relative asked me to do a favor.
Shilin is a biggest and the most crowded night market I remembered
in Taipei. There are no Shilin fried chicken, a mystery in Malaysia.
Day Seven:
Last whole day in Taipei. Happy time always gone so fast.
We have our breakfast in KFC
And then we went to 食芋堂 to try its yam dessert, unfortunately, their café has sold
out.
No. 7, Alley 5, Lane 345, Section 4, Ren'ai Road, Da’an
District, Taipei City, Taiwan 106 / 106台北市大安區仁愛路四段345巷5弄7號
Mon - sun (1200-1800)
They did offer reservation for
cake and also provide ice pack for tourist who want to take away and bring back.
Lastly, we went to Xinyi Wei Xiu Shopping district and
Wufenpu Shopping district
Wufenpu is a shopping district, selling a lot of clothes,
shoes and bags. The price is not as cheap as you think, but still, you can
visit if you have time.
For dinner and supper, we went to Raohe street night
market
Daily
(1600-0000)
End of this trip
The conclusion for Taipei trip is
You dont have to go cafe or restaurant to have your whatever lunch or dinner
IF YOU ARE A TRAVELER
You should go try out local food like fish soup, sweet potato balls, taro balls and many many delicious foods in their night market
A very nice days spend in Taipei
Love ya XOXO
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