got up at about 6am as we will be joining a free tour organized by the tour agency .
anyway ,
we were on a free and easy trip .

had a super early breakfast in the hotel before the tour began .
went to 3 different hotels first to pick up other people who also joined the 1 day tour .
first stop of the day was to some souvenir shop which sell local taiwan goodies .
got love some pineapple tarts (凤梨酥) and jellies for myself .

headed to chiang kai shek memorial hall next if i didn't remember wrongly .
all we have to do is cross the road and there we are !!
managed to see the soldiers solemn marching which will commence every morning in respect of chiang kai shek .

after that ,
we proceeded to yehliu (野柳) .
the journey there was about 1 - 2 hours i think and i had a good sleep on the bus .
reached there and the tour guide brought us to see the famous queen head (女王头) .
only managed to see the replica of it as the real one require us to walk for a good 1/2 hour and we didn't have time for that .
but i managed to take a picture of it from faraway ~

next ,
we went on to jiufen (九份) which was another long journey .
was brought to another souvenir shop and this time round i bought mochi and jellies for love and myself ~
lunch was settled at the street market over there .

after that ,
we headed off to some memorial halls i think (i've forgotten where we went) .
same thing over there ,
just seeing soldiers marching solemnly .

went to the grand hotel (圆山大饭店) next ,
forgot the purpose of visiting there .
:X

visiting of the pixiu (貔貅) place was next ,
and the tour group seriously spend a super long time after there that we had to drop the idea of dipping in hot spa .
the tour ended when the bus dropped all of them except for us off at shilin night market as we went there just yesterday .

was super famished as the bus need to drop by several hotels in order to put people's stuff before sending us back to our own hotel .
dinner was at a cafe just below the hotel i lived in .
food was pretty bad i can say .

though we visited many places in 1 day ,
it was super rush and tiring .
that's why i prefer going on a free and easy tour as we can planned our time .
^^

pictures of the day :




1st souvenir shop that we visited :



jellllllllies ~



outer view of the memorial hall :



sculpture that resemble roasted pork ~







look @ the vending machine !!

@ yehliu ~









jiufen street market ~













super q q yam balls ~

another memorial hall :


@ the hotel ~



dinner ~



have some more pictures which are too big to be uploaded here .
shall resize them and re-upload when i am free .
will edit this post when done ~