North Taiwan Trip

     SUN... at last...not really... You would think that after having cloudy and windy days here in Taiwan one would be looking forward to the sun and brightness.. Well, not me that's for sure. It was way too sunny and not to mention humid... but on the upside at least it made the view in north Taiwan even more breathtaking! My friends and I had ended up going around the northern part of Taiwan where the beaches can be seen! We ended up going to two beaches, two forts, and a geo park... all which were fabulous!

     I feel that if I just write down my adventures, it still can't show how beautiful the scenery are or how fun they were to visit.

At Danshui, Taiwan <3

So I shall try to do some writing but with photos to go along with it as well!
    Along for the trip were three French people (all gorgeous of course!), a Filipino, and myself! All during the trip my French friends would talk among each other in French, leaving me and the other guy just wondering what they are talking about. Haha, we had tried to get them to talk in English, but they would always wind up talking back in French. Then a couple of times, Spanish was tried...but that too failed. In the end... we just gave up and are now learning French!
   So, back to the trip (my bad for getting off topic), we went to Danshui were you can see the ocean, ports, and ships sailing. Around the area were tons of seafood (YUMMY) and some street performances as well! I won't say much about the places I went to.. because if I do then I'm pretty sure this would just be an even more boring post...

   Other places we went to...I shall just show the pictures :P

Hot Spring in Xin Beitou

This hot spring was.... hot! There was also a sulfuric smell that tagged along with it, but it actually wasn't as bad as I had thought. But you can see the steam rising off of it. One of my French friends wears glasses... and just within a minute we had all started laughing at her. Why? Well, it was because her glasses were all fogged up by the steam. It was hilarious, and she ended up laughing along with the rest of us.

French Fort (Keelung)

Port View (Keelung)
Here we had ended up going to a fort that was attacked by the French... (yeah)... and from higher up you can actually look out and see the port and a wonderful view!

Temple in Keelung

   We had also ended up going to a temple to see how it looked like, and later we found a place where you can grab a heart, and make a wish for someone you cared. I thought it was a sweet thing to do, so I went ahead and made one... of course I'm not telling what kind of wish I made. It's a secret. But apparently, this temple is one (or the) biggest temple in Taiwan so it was worth visiting.   

  I think since this is a lot already, I shall just post up pictures from the Yeh Liu Geo Park in Wanli... the sights were amazing. There were rocks in different forms, shapes, and holes that were made by a weathering process. It looks really beautiful! Well, until next time.

Bungee Jumping

    It's not the destination but the journey that counts. Today was a spectacular day in Taiwan. Having to travel from Hsinchu (where I live) to the bungee jump place (which is way up in the mountains) would've have taken about two hours. There were 5 of us (all girls) who took the car, and the rest of the gang took scooters. Because the scooters weren't allowed on the highway, us girls teased them about having to make us wait since they will be taking the long way. Once we were all set to leave, the journey started.

   Laughing in the car and singing was such a wonderful beginning. What made it even best was our last minute decision to give into our desire of go-kart racing! We saw it from a distant and within 30 seconds from having seen it to almost passing it, we stopped the car. Time to go racing! It was really a blast! It was about $7 US dollars from 10 min. I thought it was a pretty good deal. To me it still seems cheap. I don't really know how much go-karting is in America... hmmm.... Well this was just the start of it!

   Afterwards, the journey still went on high in the mountains. Out of nowhere an old wise man looking money popped out! Guess what we fed it.... Chinese cheesy Cheetos! He seemed to have liked it a lot too! He kept on coming back for more anyways!Not only did

we meet a monkey... but we had ended up getting lost in the mountain. How fun was that? It was exciting truth be told. The view was beautiful, and we were able to bond together even more! We had been using a GPS but seemed to have a sort of temper. It kept telling us to take a route where there was none. If we had followed its directions, we would've smashed against a wall. But, guess who came to the rescue??? GOOGLE MAPS!!! It was great, but as you all know the car is filled with women. Want to know what I had heard about women with directions? "If a woman says to go one way, go the exact opposite." Well, I can completely tell you that this man who said it was correct. Even though we had Google map with us, we didn't really have a clear layout of the road so when turns came up we had to guess which ones to take... every road we kept choosing... that's right! It kept turning to be the wrong turn. This was our journey! We haven't even reached our destination yet, and we are all having such an adventure. I'm being serious here too. I really did have an amazing time with these great girls in the car. We did end up making it right on time for the bungee jumping, but... (remember the boys who ended up taking the scooters - the ones we teased saying that we will end up waiting for???)  they had actually ended waiting for us. That was a funny turn of event. Sorry guys! XD

About to jump to the depths below!

  Well, finally the bungee jumping! I feel as if I wrote too much... and I probably did. Yikes! So instead of just writing some more which would take forever... here are two videos of the bungee jumping! Enjoy everyone! Life in Taiwan is such a blast! P.S. Sorry for any bad languages in it!