Jingtong - Shifen - Taichung

Today is Tuesday and we had a plan to see a lot of interesting places. We'd woken up, packed our stuff and our day had begun. 

Our first stop has been about 30 minutes far from our train station. It was a traditional train station Jingtong and we've had a breakfast here. I've ordered fried sweet potatoes - good, but very oily. All over this station were bamboo sticks on a piece of colorful rope and it made a great atmosphere. You can also buy a stick for 30NTD, write your wish and hang it on a tree or just somewhere you like. I haven't bought it, because I've written all my wishes yesterday on sky lantern:-)

The tree is full of bamboo sticks

Later we've wandered around Old Street, we've seen Lover Bridge and something like "coal center”. When you cross the railways you climb a little on the stairs you can see a lot of abandoned buildings, for example old Coal Café or places, where people earlier lived, worked or went to pray. It's called Coal Memorial Park. You can see there coal museum, some view to Jingtong or an example, how do they actually mined a coal. This place is very abandoned, almost nobody come here, so on your journey you heard a lot of animals like birds or bees, lizards are running in front of you, butterflies are showing you their wings and the wild nature is playing with their beauty as well..

Old Street

Coal Café

Abandoned buildings

Lover Bridge

Which way?

It had to be exhausting work..

We've done it! Violetta, Marius and Freddy

After observing this small village, we went to the Shifen. This city can touch your nostalgic heart. You can try there some food, buy souvenirs or visit waterfall. We'd planned to see waterfalls. When we'd arrived, we realized that we need to leave in 50 minutes and the journey to waterfalls takes around 25 minutes. We'd decided with some trainees to try it. We were almost running! When we had come to the area, we'd taken a wrong journey, so we've seen only a small piece of it.. It has been pity, because I've read it's beautiful and we were so close.. But we'd taken a picture here and we'll definitely at least google these waterfalls :-)

Do you see the small waterfall? :-)

There is also a little bit of Shifen waterfall

So where were ve've been? On this map are some places :-) And you can read sometihnig about them also on the next picture. At least, you can see the pictures.

Pingsi - Jingtong - Shifen on map

Would you like to know more?

 

Our last stop for today is Taichung. On our way I've met one interesting lady, who works in Gold Museum in Taipei. She has been traveling about a month alone. She has showed me, where has she been. It has looked amazing. And she has been so kind, that she has given me a welcome present-it looks like an angel. I like it a lot:-)Maybe she'll read this and contact me and we'll see each other again. Let me know, if you're interested in.

Taichung is a city of light industry. This city is known thanks to the cheap production of toys, shoes and electrical goods. Today we've been to the night market and it has been really big. I’ve tried a lot of food-barbecue chicken pieces, scrambled egg with cabbage and bacon and seaweed, guava, dumplings and some mango and lemon drinks. I’ve seen also another surprised thing here-the cock red Hahn on stick. You can buy three pieces only for 20NTD! But that is not possible to eat:-D I've also bought some earrings-cats and giraffes. So good night for today!

The city is big and colorful

Old street with a lot of people..as usually

Meat on sticks - everywhere

I haven't been joking about the Hahn :-))

And do you remember the trash cars here in Taiwan? I've written about them in post 10 differences between Czech and Taiwanese on 3rd of July. I've also put there a song, which you can hear. So in Taichung trash cars play another song. It's Fur Elise from W. A. Mozart! Such a nice song and what a horrible way to play it!