Honeymoon Taipei Day 4. Part 1..
March 29, 2008 by TA
…. Day 4: WuLai Aborigine Town . East Metro Mall . Sogo . Chill at TS Hotel ….
Just after we had our yummy hotel breakfast, the first sign of trouble appeared.
I was having the runs (diarrhea). It must be the three pieces of margarine-laden Pineapple Cakes washed down with super slimmy Frog-Lay-Egg Bubble Tea last night!
Do we still want to visit WuLai Aborigines Town. Could we? :-(
No way we would miss WuLai! I took a light dose of medicine to stop the runs and we set off excitedly..
Taking the Mrt through XiaoNanMen Station, to ChiangKaiShek Memorial Hall Station, then we hopped eagerly into the transferring train. The next thing we knew, we found ourselves at NanShiJiao Station! Tracing back to CKS Hall, we realized the train to NSJ and XinDian shared the same Station and platform ha! This time the correct train with “XinDian” light on its front came to fetch her lost commuters..
Exiting XinDian Station, we wandered headlong into the streets.. Spending more than half an hour exploring aimlessly into empty shop lanes and heavy traffic, before we finally turned back into the inner streets to a food stall. Phew! Time for lunch!
From what seemed like an all-beef stall, I ordered Stir-fried Beef Noodles, a Beef Noodles Soup and a side dish Seaweed (total about TWD140). Dipped my spoon in the bowl and found only Noodles and Soup in my wife’s Beef Noodles Soup! Interesting. So I checked with the guy hawker and he explained that Beef Noodles Soup meant only the Noodles in Beef Soup and nothing else!
I then bought a plate of Stewed Beef Meat TWD50 for poor “mee” lady, I mean “me” lady haha! My Stir-fried Beef Noodles could be drier and more fragrant. Wife’s Beef Noodles Soup was excellent – with or without those stewed tender Beef slices! ;-D
From outside XinDian Station we took a bus to WuLai. Crowded bus took us on an almost 20-minutes journey along winding roads and rustic scenery up WuLai. Alighting, we had a first taste of touring WuLai – from bus bay, we walked passed the carpark. A group of cabbie beckoned visitors and one guy claimed that it would take 50-minutes to tour WuLai (or its NeiDong Forest attraction) on foot. We kept his idea in mind and walked on. Entering into WuLai Old Street – another style of old streets laden with local food and shopping. Old streets could be found in most other tourist places in Taipei we went. I liked WuLai’s for its many colours and wider walkways.
Walking past the Spa Resorts, 7-Eleven Mart, we then paid TWD50 each for a Mini-Train 3-minutes (or was it lesser?) ride. It was a ride up to its first stop, the WuLai Waterfall.
Were we wrong, it wasn’t the first stop – it was the only stop! We hoped the Train would bring us on a mini tour of WuLai or something haha! Train driver signaled while we sat tight, he persisted and we alighted reluctantly as a long queue of visitors boarded to take the Train back. ;-)
The weather was relentlessly warm, despite being up in the mountains. From the Waterfall, it was more relentless walking uphill, through natural pathways, nicely-crafted stairs, wood decks etc. We took pics as we perspired and hiked ahead..
Suddenly, the call of the wild came – I needed to use the washroom! High up amidst nice forested greenery, should I do what the local aborigine might do in such times? :-(
Read on.. No way – I’m a tourist!
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