So, today is our third day. Since we came here by our own and do free and easy, we actually took some time to leave our hostel. Weather yesterday was fine, not too hot, not too cold, so I decided to just wear my bermuda short today. Had a bad feeling about this since inside our room is quite cold around 22 degrees. Anyway, still went on with the 3/4 pants. Stepped out of the room, cold air welcomed us. Since I prefer cold rather than hot, it's actually felt very nice for me. Proceed to Jiantan MRT Station to take MRT to Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall Station since that's where our first stop going to be. At the Jiantan MRT Station, while waiting for MRT to come, saw the temperature displayed at a building nearby. 15 degree celcius. OMG, things doesn't look good but so far, I can still cope with the cold weather. It doesn't really help with the occasional wind every now and then. But we still move on.
This is the famous gate of Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall. Actually took the picture wrong side. Should take the picture from the other side into the hall. Anyway, still can see the name clearly.
One of the halls there.
Tree House?
Flowers!
Nice looking trash can.
The main hall. This is where all the exhibitions is.
Another closer shot of the hall.
Guards are changing shifts. The guards will need to stand like mannequins without moving for 1 hour.
The guard.
Same guard, front shot.
The statue of the man himself, Mr President, Chiang Kai Shek.
We visited the gallery that shows the history and life story of Chiang Kai Shek. Took some pictures but I thought you'll get bored with them if I posted them here. There's some section that exhibit information regarding green and energy saving and more. Very nice showroom, must visit at least once if you are an environment friendly person. After spending few hours here, we went back to MRT station and head up really north to Danshui. Journey took approx 45 minutes from Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall Station. Bad timing to come here. When we reached, it's raining. Not heavy but very very cold. Can't find a building with temperature display to know the current temperature. I guess will be about 9-10 degrees. The final station, Danshui Station is just by the seaside, so the wind is exceptionally strong. So so so so so cold. Bad news with the short pants now :p We didn't bring umbrella so we had to get one from 7-11. They don't have the small foldable one that we can put inside the bag, but since there's no choice, we had to grab the next best (smallest) umbrella. Just nice to put in our luggage to bring back later. We headed to Danshui Old Street to grab something to fill our stomach since it's about 2pm already. Made a wrong turn and had a little detour. Lucky managed to turn in the street from another way. We had Fried Prawn Roll, some fried quail egg with fish, saussage (pic below) and Ah Gei, fishball soup and noodles.
Saussage. 3 stick for NT100.
The famous Tie Dan. Taste not bad. Well, the egg white tasteless and elastic but the yolk is ok, like herbal tea egg. NT100 per pack. We bought the chicken egg one. They have quail egg too. I think this is the most popular in Danshui since a lot of people are queuing to but this thing.
The journey to Danshui won't be completed if you don't visit Danshui Fisherman's Wharf and the ever famous Lover's Bridge. Well, it still rains and the wind is getting stronger and stronger. Feels like almost flying away. We need to take shelter from one of the building here to cover from the strong wind. In the end, we only took the bridge's photo from far which is not too bad. We still had an appointment later that day so we didn't spend too much time here. Bad weather doesn't help also.
After our appointment, feeling tired and cold, we just each had a mixed vermicelli noodle each to warm our body. This taste not bad...can't really recall where this is already. This concludes our third day here. I still have something to update on this post, which is to include the chinese translation on each place. Also will update on the previous 2 posts also. Bye.
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