Thursday - 3 July 08 Day 2 in Taipei

                                                              龙山寺                                                                     美人照镜池                                            Sun Yat Sen  memorial hall                                                           See  this cup cute ya                                     View from Taipei 101                                     We are given this guide hearing device                                                      dearie with damper baby                                               We are at Taipei  101                                                  Went to their zoo becos of this!                                                 We are in  Taipei Zoo                                                        View from the Gondola                                                  Tics to take the Gondola                                                      五分埔                                                        绕河夜市                                               Doraemon's  pancake - yummy                 The Ma Zhu  temple today is CHU YI lotsa prayers around  the templeSee my  feet hahaha .... I also dunno why my feet become so dirty ........ maybe there  is a lot of walking today.  I have difficulties in removing it!
Woke up at 7am and wash up ..... off we go to Level 2 for breakfast ....... not much varities early in the morning they serve nuggets, french fries, cha soba and sushi for me I tried almost everything.  For my dearie he is like old man :X hahah eat porridge and drink soya bean milk.  We don't have map on hand and since we are early and we are taking thier 捷运 we asked around how to walk to 龙山寺.

We reached 龙山寺 around 830am and there are so many people around singing prayers and we do not know how to pray dunno where to start we decided not to use the joss stick we just went round the temple to 拜拜.  Ooposite there is a 美人照镜池 aka fountain heehee they will have "show" 9am - 9pm and is every 15mins.  Well we stay theer to watch awhile and take their 捷运 to Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall 国父纪念馆 is free admission and they do sell some sovenir there too and  we will miss the next military shift changing cos we are heading to Taipei 101 next heard that when we are there dun miss the changing of shift.

At around 9.40am we left to Taipei 101 the price had increase NT50 so now the admission fee is NT400 this is to floor 88 & 89.  The lift is so cool with a speed of 60公尺 oh i love the lift .... am so excited till I forget to take pics heehee.  We are given a guide hearing device to guide us through what are the surrounding buildings located and what are they use for.  You can stay there as long as you could pay another additional amount to go up to 91 storey but my advice is no need to waste that money heehee.  In the buidling itself have many shops Jean Paul Gaultier, Coach, Hermes etc.

Took the shuttle bus back to 市政府站 and change to red line to go to the Taipei Zoo hahaha think lotsa people may think we both are so stupid to go zoo.  Eh.... I find stupid to go after I walk in there for about 11/2hr hahaha we went there cos we wanna see Koala Bear we are wondering can we also carry them .... ANS is NO.... and think due to the weather most of the animals are sleeping and they hide one side which is in shade so nothing much to see.  We went in there cos we thought we could take the 游客列车 to take their Gondola to 猫空.  Their 游客列车 have so many people we gave up waiting and headed out.  The admission fee is NT60 you could pay that through the Easycard 

Ok next is to 猫空 there is nothing much is just like you taking the cable car in SG well cos of my dearie he wanna go see cos during his stay in Taipei last year due to weather the Gondola cease operation.  And for me I am so hungry that I ask to eat something but my dearie kept asking me to go walk first . The ticket cost NT100 worst thing is you have to Q Q Q everytime even I have bought the tickets I still have to Q with those who have not purchase it. After Q-ing they release batches by batches and we go up to 4th floor and those who haven't buy the tics have  to go Q for tics those whom have bought have to Q to sit the Gondola..... sigh and their system is kinda fuck up when we reached the last station and both of  us dun feel like going down we wanna take back CANNOT loh ..... we have to get down and if you wanna go back you gotta go Q again!  No choice so we got down and look for food we have their fried bee hoon and soup .... the soup is very nice!  I wanna try the Kungfu Panda mcnuggets in Taipei no chance for today!

After 猫空 our next destination is 五分埔 yes the wholesale centre!   We have to head back to blue line to 后山埤 and just nice 绕河夜市 is just nearby.  I bought lotsa things in 五分埔 and after the walking I am dead tired and hungry so we went KFC for light food, drinks and of cos toilet break!  Went 绕河夜市 to shop wow ..... so many people again but this is much more easier to walk compare to 士林.  I bought a pair of shoes and some clothings wanted to try the pepper biscult but there is a long long Q so we gave up and shop again ..... before we leave the place we bought some food back to eat.

We are so tired and dun wanna climb the overhead bridge to 后山埤 we decided to take a cab back to the hotel.  Gotta rest early today too cos there is a 1/2 day city tour tomorrow ............