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Taiwan Grad Trip 2017 // Taipei
Hello everybody, here with the second part of my Taiwan grad trip and this time we're in Taipei!
 Read my first part here: Taiwan Grad Trip 2017 // Taichung So in the end we took a bus instead of the train to Taipei from Taichung, and we terminated at the bus terminal and we went to get their easycard (their ezlink card) to get around in Taipei. We didn't get it straight as we didn't use it in Taichung (there was no subway). We took the subway to Taipei Bridge station where we'll be staying in a capsule hostel (!!!) for a night. I have been wanting to stay in a capsule hotel and I chance upon this Hey Bear Capsule Hotel in Taipei! It cost around $30+ per night. We had a whole room to ourselves as we had 6 of us, so the room had 6 capsules. Take a look at the hotel here: Hey Bear Capsule Hotel 
We're so fascinated with the capsule, it was comfortable, and it had so much space that it can fit two people, unless you're like Gab. Sorry Gab.
I just like Gab, you just take the one below la hor, it's quite dangerous for you to climb that stairs.
We rested for a little and we went around to look for food and we entered a hotpot restaurant where we also tried pigs blood.
It was ok, it tasted like 糯米饭 honestly.
And if you're interested in our reactions, you can view the video on Alvina's channel here
After that we explored the area for a little, stopping at some random small departmental store, some family mart, some road side food store before we decided to head back.
As it was a hostel, the toilets are located out of the rooms and they separated the toilets according to genders and our floor has the bigger guys toilet and smaller female toilet.
So me and Jasmine went to the other floor with the larger female toilet lol.
The key cards are so prone to losing. Zar lost hers and Alvina almost lost hers as well but we managed to find it back in the toilet lol.
Had a good night sleep in the capsule, it wasn't uncomfortable at all.
The next morning we checked out to head to Ximending for our hotel check in and to meet Ethan and Jamie as well. (yay finally)
We went to the wrong hotel LOL.
Well, technically its the same hotel chain but it's the wrong outlet that we booked.
Too many of the ECFA Hotel in Ximending.
On the same street some more.
We checked in and the girls actually didn't really like the rooms because of the high celling shit, and they wanted to change but the guys thought that it was ok lol.
So in the end no, we didn't change our hotel.
expectations:
 
reality:
it was quite bad. honestly lol.
sorry had no photos
Moving on with life, we went to the original DinTaiFung at Xinyi Road,
which is just Dongmen station exit 5.
We took a number and decided to just walk around the area and bought 50 岚 yay.
Took some group photos and we headed back to the store.
We Q for a little more and I think we over ordered lol.
     
Then we headed to Damsui Area and we tried the air bb gun game.
That's how we waste our money and how our money depleted so fast lol.
   
Spent like I think around 2 hours there before heading back to Ximending for food and some shopping.
I love how our hotel is so central like so near to Ximending, we went there almost everyday.
Halp.
  
The next day, we walked into Ximending for some Lu Ruo Fan and Orh Jian before heading to shop at Wufenpu!
Spent like a good 3-4 hours there but it was so hot, had a little headache due to the sun zzz.
Alvina and I were like shopping together so we thought they will meet at the time we agreed on before we left but nope found wifi and they decided to take an hour/ 30 mins more to walk.
Both Alvina and I were just too tired so we just nua-ed at a bubble tea shop. lol
    
I actually managed to get such many stuff that I literally bought a travel bag to put everything inside.
lol ded
And I managed to drag them to Raohe Night Market?
Am I cray.
I think the rest went to another night market after raohe but my head was hurting quite a bit from the sun.
But in the end accompanied Gab and Jamie to SPAO and spent like an hour or so there halp.
The next morning we went to Taipei Main Station to take a train to Ruifang aka where Jiufen is at.
Bought some food from 7-11 to eat on our train ride there.
  
Upon reaching Ruifang, you're supposed to take a bus up to Jiufen area.
There's so much snacks to have at Jiufen!
The Peanut ice cream, prawn crackers and some melted cheese crackers which is awesome.
However it was sooooo misty we literally see nothing.
 
And from Jiufen we went over to Shifen to release the sky lanterns.
 
After that, we missed our train lol.
Because the train timings are so fixed and once you missed it you have to wait for like almost an hour or so.
There are like so many taxi drivers quoting you such a high price to get back to Taipei is like what....
So we waited at some café and played like charades lol.
Initially I wanted to head to HRC Dance for class but because we missed the train so sobs :(
Took the train back to Taipei and we went to some night market with an underground food court!
Yayyyy it was so worth it we just keep having stuff to order lol.
But it was raining as well so we couldn't really shop at the night market.
Decided to sleep in the next day and headed for a
buffet hotpot brunch at Ximending which was so awesome!!!
And they also serve free flow beer + haagendaz as well dayum
After our fulfilling brunch we went to the Guo Fu Museum and checked out the Xinyi Area.
And we also went into Taipei 101 building to change money lol.
       
Before we went separate ways aka me going to dance class at HRC.
Signed up for two classes in HRC, it was like 350TWD (around $16) per class.
Took Girls Hiphop at 6.30pm and Dancehall at 8.30pm.
Wanted to have Dazzling café alone, walked all the way there only to realize that it had closed down. Halp.
Walked all the way back to have burger king alone halp la.
But was so proud that I went to HRC myself and ate dinner and back to the hotel alone without data/wifi yay.
Went back to Ximending and some guy came to approach me to be a bargirl??
Whattt..
And went back to sleep because the next day was theme park day + club lol.
Went to Ximending for simple breakfast aka AhZhongMeeSua.
We wanted to take a bus to Leofoo Theme Park but we're like too late?
So we split up to two cabs, which was kinda worth it because we had 8 people.
We reached in the afternoon but it was okay because we're aiming to get the half day ticket.
It is cheaper and more worth it.
Eugene joined us for the theme park and he was complaining to me saying that he was super cold.
Ok la, before that we're at WuFenPu which was super hot.
But the theme park was up on a hill so halp, it was a little colder.
And there was nobody at the theme park?!
We totally didn't Q for any rides LOL.
Love these kind of theme park where there is nobody that you can go for the roller coaster thrice. HAHAHAHA
   
Took a cab back to Ximending for dinner and some last minute shopping.
Did a new specs and bought some contacts as well.
Bought like 1000TWD worth of face mask, eye mask and lip mask. LOL.
Went back to put the stuff and headed to Babe 18.
So it was said that there's free entry before 11.30pm. But there was a Q outside so obviously we won't be able to get the free entry, so we paid... 750TWD (around $40) for club.
CRIES
Opened two bottles, 750 TWD each, 2000TWD in total.
Balling hard.
Cries.
We got back to the hotel safe, with funny incidents in between lol.
I remember laughing at Ethan till I was on the floor LOL.
The next day we packed our stuff and we're all hoping that we don't exceed 20kg each.
Tho my baggage was like 23kg? halp
But because we checked in as a group, so we leeched the rest of their baggage yay.
Alright, that's the end of our Taiwan trip.
#finally.
Till the next trip, which happened last year June, Gili Islands and Bali.
LOL
HALP.
Labels: #joeytraveldiary, Airbnb, FIT, Free & Easy, Taipei, Taiwan, Travel Korea Trip Day 10: Last Day in Seoul!
So hi, finally I'm at the last day of the Korea trip. HAHAHAHA.
We woke up early and we dragged our luggage, okay maybe only me, across the street to take the airport bus shuttle. But then a cab driver came and asked if we wanted to take his cab for the same price as the bus shuttle. (15, 000 won each) So we were like erm okay.  We loaded everything up and we were on our way to the airport before the cab driver decided to pump some petrol and to get a car wash. And their car wash was the automatic washer system!!! Too rare in Singapore nowadays so both Sandra and I were xiao fascinated. We reached and get our luggage checked for the tax thingy shit, and the officers were like, have you checked in... We did our check in on-line so we didn't understand but they checked in for us. Nawww.  Went to get some last minute shopping done at the airport, aka Etude house. Legit spent everything in my wallet. Decided to head in to get the tax money back and guess what... The Q is super long... zzzz And there are two different tax system, so I had to Q for two different systems. zzz I think the gate is going to close soon so I was like running around to get my tax money. zzzz But it was worth it cause I got back $250+ worth of money from all the taxes. It's all because of the MCM. And it was the first time that I was running in the airport, rushing to our gate. Now I understand why the Kpop Idols are always running in Incheon Airport. LOL. Luckily we didn't miss our flight, and we had the whole back section to ourselves! There wasn't much people except for us and another pair of girls, so peace and joy. Landed in Hongkong and I have to say I hate HongKong Airport's food section. It's ALWAYS filled with people, and the people will just sit at their table till their flight. So annoying can't they be more considerate? We decided to just nua at our gate, hog the wifi and watch our shows. LOL, hobo much hehehe. Boarded the plane and went back to Singapore~  But I still have my Japan trip, hoseh. Oh well, I'm not going to blog day by day for the Japan trip but I'll spilt them into parts. And I'm heading to Bandung, Indonesia! Stuffs are dirt cheap there, like what escape room for $10 each?! Bitch please in Singapore its like $20+ per person. zzz So till the next post, xoxo
Total Expenditure (Rate 1 SGD = 790 Won)
41060 won
=
$52 SGD
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