We went there last January 31 - February 5 of 2018. We traveled as a group composing of 11 persons. Our flight is 11pm of Jan30 and we arrive aroung 2am of Jan31. We head straight to our hotel which is GOSLEEP HOTEL - HANKOU near Ximending. We paid 1,200NTD for 2 cars. 5 persons on one and 6 persons for the other card.
We did begin our travel despite of arriving midnight on that day. And we do need to wake up early because we have an included breakfast and the time is 7AM-10AM only.
The weather is at the time of our tour is COLD. Playing around 10-6 degrees Celsius, lowest number that we encounter.
And also when we arrive we exchange our money at the airport. We used USD, I changed 500USD, some extra because some of our friends are last in line during the immigration and the line at the exchange counter is getting longer. It sums up to aroung 11k NTD with 30NTD charge.
I would suggest exchanging at the bank, and the rates go up and down from time to time, like I am talking minutes. 3 groups exchange their USD and we all have different rates.
We also bought an EASYCARD, note that the card is worth 100NTD without load, so you do have to top up.
Okey, here goes our itinerary. This just goes as what we can go to for the day.
Day1: Jan31
- Taipei Zoo - we walk around the zoo and had our lunch at Mcdonald's which happen to have no rice meal at all. (sad, we all know we Pinoys do love rice)
- From Taipei Zoo we head to ride the Gondola Ride to Maokong. At Maokong I went to the nearest shop that sells tea/s and stuff and also ice cream. I was good.
- Went back to hotel
Day2: Feb1
- Yehliu Geopark
- Jinshan Old Street
- Sytrend / Guang Hua to check for gadgets and stuffs
- Back to hotel
Day3: Feb2
- C.K.S Memorial Hall
- Sun Yat Set Memorial Hall
- National Taiwan University
- Taipei 101 (Just the mall area, we didn't got the change to go up)
- Back to Guang Hua / Sytrend because one of our friends plans to buy a laptop
- Back to hotel
Day4: Feb3
- Jiufen Old Street. I have a really sill story here, we walk whenever our feet takes us. There is this temple that we took pictures at, that we did not know restricted because there was no sign when we enter. One of our friends remain at the entrance and did not join us, then he went missing. We look all over for him, the remaining group set our meeting place at the Cat Store, we all went looking for him. Then the other group got a change to connect to a wifi, and our missing friend messages us that a MONK said to him that the area is restricted and guided him outside, the ENTRANCE what they called it. So, reminder make sure not to separated if you are a group or look around if the are you are entering is restricted or what not.
- We decided not to continue our tour down to Shifen Old Street and PingXi Old Street because, the weather that day is very cold plus the heavy rain makes it more hard to walk around. (Note: On that day we learned that at the area did snow, maybe that's the reason that the weather there is really cold).
- Went back to hotel and play some board games, which one of our friends brought.
Day5: Feb4
- We woke up late because, we need to regain some strength because we will be waiting for our flight for the next day. Our flight is at 4AM. We had our breakfast around 9:30AM, pack our things and checkout at 12NOON.
- We left our baggage at the hotel and walk around some more.
- Martyr's Shrine
- National Palace Museum (only at the outside)
- Underground Mall
- Back to hotel to get our bags
- To the airport.
Day6: Feb5
- Wait at the airport until 4am to checkin
- Arrive at Manila at around 6AM
So that's our short journey for our Taiwan trip.
Happen to tour around Taiwan? Please let me know what are the things that I missed and tell me your experience.
