Taipei Trip - Day 6

1 May 2008

[Beitou --> Hot Spring Museum --> Aboriginal Museum --> Miramar Ferris Wheel --> Danshui Old St Night Market]

Got up early to pack and check out of our hotel. No... we are not returning to Singapore yet. We have made plans to go to Beitou for Hotspring. Left most of our luggage with the Rainbow Hotel and off we went to Xin Beitou Station.

As we arrived before the check in time, we decided to look around the area before going to the hotel.

There was this Library near our hotel which I thought it looked very nice, so I took some pictures of it...

Beitou is a really small place, everything is within few minutes' walking distance to each other.
Just next to the library, there was this little stream which made the place looked so serene.



The place that we really wanted to visit was the Hotspring Museum. Didn't know that it looked more like part of a university from the outside.



After walking one full round, we finally found the entrance to the museum.



Inside, they showed us how the museum used to looked like many years ago. It also explained about the origin of the hotspring.



The following was a bigger common pool.



And finally, the biggest hotspring pool around... which reminds me of Bath in England.



A few meters away from the Hotspring Museum, there was this Aboriginal Museum. As no photography was allowed in the museum, all I can take is the photo of this wooden sculpture just outside the museum. Basically, the museum will show you the various tribes' costumes and location and history. And all these time, the only person that came to my mind is A*mei!



Finally, when it is time for us to check in, we headed back to our hotel... Sweet Me Hotel. I will certainly recommend this hotel to anyone as it is located very close to the train station and the rooms are really big and comfortable...



Furthermore, the hotel provides complimentary tea which was simply sumptious! If we have known that earlier, we would have skipped out lunch and just have tea instead. (Since they serve tea between 2pm - 5pm)



As our hotel stay also came with a pair of complimentary tickets to the Miramar Ferris Wheel, we decided to go for the ride after our tea session.





Though the Ferris Wheel was much much smaller than that of the Singapore Flyer, it was still quite fun when you are at the top of it.

We took some pictures when we were at the top and we could even see Taipei 101 far far away.

Wah! This was like a warm up session before we ride on the Singapore Flyer back home!



Actually, we were not sure how much a ride on the ferris wheel cost. But I would not recommend it since we have to travel some distance before we got here. And there was nothing else to do after the ride.

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As we would be returning to Singapore the next day, my friend wanted to go back to Dan Shui Old Street to buy more tidbits. So we went back to Dan Shui and shop around before we head back to Beitou.