Taiwan Day 3

On Day 3, we hired a taxi to bring us to 野柳地質公園, 基隆, 金瓜石, 九份

At the entrance of 野柳 are these very cute dolls. Nadine insisted on taking photos with all of them.

The weather was fabulous that day. We were expecting cold sea breeze but instead, it was sunny and hot.

野柳 is famous for its rock formations, and the most famous is the Queen's Head (at the right hand corner of the following photo). There was a long queue of PRC and Korean tourists waiting to take photos with the Queen's Head. We didn't bother.

After that, we went to 基隆廟口夜市 (open in the day) for lunch. Forgot to take photos again.

The 鼎邊趖 (rice noodle with mushroom, bamboo shoot, dried shrimp, pork, etc) and braised pork rice were yummy!

After lunch, we went to 金瓜石, a mountainous area that used to be full of gold and copper mines. It is situated between the mountains and coastlines, with lots of nice rock formations as well.

This is the famous Gold Waterfall 黃金瀑布 in the area.

We also went to the Gold Ecological Park 黃金博物園區 located in a mountain town. We had to climb many many many steps up to the museum. Daddy, MaMa and Aaron chose to have coffee and wait for the rest of us in a cafe at the foot of the town instead.

Next, we went to 九份老街, a very nice, quaint cobbled street, with lots of local eateries. We tried the Taiwanese version of yang tau foo and a local favourite - yam balls.

The steps going down from the 老街 were long and steep. And there were so many interesting tea houses.

Next we went to 十分老街 to 放天灯. We could draw/write whatever we want on the lanterns before releasing them to the sky. Nadine had great fun drawing on the lantern.

And the finale - our driver bought us a box of fireworks!

By the time we were done with these exciting lantern and fireworks, we were all super exhausted. No energy to go anywhere for dinner, so we bought onigiris from Seven Eleven home. The onigiris were good! Why don't we have them in Singapore?