February 16, 2017

Taiwan Day 9: YangMingShan National Park

My second last day in Taiwan, we decided to visit here, the national park (陽明山). It's a long journey there where you get to experience riding different public transport. First take the MRT to JianTan station, then go to the bus station and queue on the Red 5 bus stop platform. Sit on the bus and it will ride you straight up to their last station for the shuttle bus, don't go down halfway at any weird name which does sound a bit similar. Yes, we came down the wrong station *swt* The shuttle bus too, I think there's a one day pass written on the web but we just follow the queue and hence without the pass, they charge NT15 for each of our rides 

First stop to the XiaoYouKeng (小油坑). The post-volcanic activity that is still ongoing releasing fumes that smell (probably ammonia sulphur). Just this small ones here and roaming around you will find a store here selling some homemade stuff, food and drinks, kinda expensive, but well, we are hungry so we just settled there for lunch.

Next stop LengShuiKeng (冷水坑), there's hot spring and foot bath which are free of charge. There's time slot for hot spring and the time we reached is closed so we decided to just soak our foot into this foot bath. Oh, remember to bring a towel for drying your leg after.


We later walk over to QingTianGang (擎天崗) though it's quite a distance but still waiting bus time is really time-consuming, the mini bus is in an interval of around 30 mins. The aunties we speak to while foot bathing said they explore this place mostly by walking and trekking and the view are much prettier which convince us more to walk.

QingTianGang is a big field for cows to graze on. The cow is not tied, you can go very near to them but mind your distance at your own risk, don't get to hype up with good photos and forget about safety. There's a sign set up to remind the public. The wind is very strong there and the weather is cooling, so damn relaxing I don't want to come down.




 

 




Overall experience is just fine. Would prefer a journey like a day before. Anyway, we leave there by bus no.15 straight to Shilin night market and yet I preferred Shida night market :P So much more to see, eat and shop.

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