Sunday, January 5, 2014

Aiesec winter explore day 32

Checked out of hostel at 11am and landlady gave us detailed suggestions on how to go to lotus pond and national science and technology museum, and even told us where to find lockers to put our barangs till we come back. Service is totally impeccable man! It's old Taiwan (liouhe) hostel. :)

We set off to lotus pond by taking mrt to zuoying mrt and then bus 35 (red). Upon arrival we realized that... There is awesome sunlight available to take awesome photos again HAHA



Although it was quite difficult not to squint >< very sunny! It's cold when we were in the shade and the cold wind was blowing. But totally nice to be in the sun :)

They said to enter through the dragon's mouth and exit through the tiger's. Not sure why. Doesn't the lion look cute? Haha 

After that we paid 50nt to take the tour bus around the lotus pond because it would take forever by foot.

Quite interesting because they had a tour guide to explain the different statue/temples and their stories to us. 

There was a point in time that only Jocelyn and me were in the bus and he tried to interact with us. Unfortunately i wasnt well versed in historical stuff so i just sat through the ride silently lol. TT
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Next stop was national science and technology museum to "satisfy our inner geek". Cabbed there because it was already 3.30 and the museum closes at 5. 


6 floors to cover!!
We toured the place at the speed of light. 

There was this facilitator guy who told us we can take a tram ride if we played games at 5 stations. We tried to play but there were so many science terms in traditional Chinese so we read it real slowly. The facilitator fed us with most of the answers. ^_^

After that the tram ride turned out to be like a trishaw thing where we had to cycle super hard =.= thighs almost gave way lol. Enough of cycling...

Many exhibits were closed because we were too late already :(

Finally, cabbed back to Kaohsiung main station to take 5 hour bus ride back to Taipei.

Bought macs to eat on the journey. Shiokness! Just that the macs here doesn't have chilli sauce and curry sauce. Only tomato sauce is available sobs.

Still, another awesome day!

Tmr is school again but without Josephina TT gonna be lonely 

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