Friday, June 12, 2026

Day 4 - 9 hour scenic tour















We started day 4 early - woke up at 7am and got to our meeting spot 10 minutes before 8:30am for our small group tour - 9 hours including 

- an hour at geo park where we saw the natural rock formation of the queens head

- two hours at liufen old town - for beef noodle and xiao long bao lunch and overpriced souvenirs

- an hour walk around a beautiful waterfall - very cool stop

- 50 minutes at shifen where isabel got to draw on a large red lantern which we then released into the sky. 

Our favorites were the last two stops.  We got off the tour at Taipei 101. Didn’t go up as it was rainy and most people say not worth it.  Tried to go up to Simple Kaffa cafe on 88 fl for coffee and dessert but it had a 120 min line.   We walked around the malls full of expensive shops. Long champ bags are nt 5700 and I guess a recent rising brand.  Isabel shared many of her classmate has them.  We were uninspired and took that metro home 

At the station we treated ourselves to Glo the self serve frozen yogurt place - dessert before dinner is the best. 

We got back around 7 PM.  To tired to go out for dinner

-  I ended up having 炸酱面 I got prepackaged from family Mart the day before Plus drunken chicken. They got from the night market the first night.  Pretty good

- I ordered from Uber Eats Breakfast food for dinner for Isabel from the place we found the first day here - Hot soy milk, fried dough, 小笼包 和烧饼加葱蛋   She loved it





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