first thing i did when i woke up at 8am was to draw the curtain and the weather made me go on repeat mode, "it's a sunny day....yeah yeah!!!" and forced Mr Ang to wake up wake up WAKE UP!!!
surprise breakfast that was hung outside our room at around 8am
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| luv the hot milk tea and ham + sunny side up sandwich...yum yum yum!! |
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| ready for day 2 |
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| the super big temple with the only official carpark near our 民宿 |
our 民宿老板 called at approx 9am to offer his free transport service around 九份.... so nice of him right??? .... helped us save $$$$... heee
1st stop: Gold Ecological Park (黄金博物馆)
10 minutes drive away from jiufen old street...can take bus 1013 from the opposite side of 7-11 at 九份老街 too...payment of bus fare can be made thru easycard (something like our ezlink which can be top up at 7-11)
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| water cooler... likey likey.... help us to save money on buying mineral water....
民宿 provided us with 4 bottles per room too... =) |
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| so sad.... we din get to touch the 220kg gold bar inside this exhibit hall.... awwww..... no wonder no need to pay entrance fee... |
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| 洪妈妈 playing with the antique phone |
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| video on the history of the gold mine |
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| a 12 minute animation on the life of a gold miner |
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| ancient mining tools |
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| Mr Ang is the gold which i mined.... |
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| still need declaration one wor.... |
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| helmet for safety...the blue blue thing on Mr Ang's head is for hygiene purpose (like like...very thoughtful of them)...mine is well hidden by the helmet... |
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| traces of gold somewhere which i cant see...=S |
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| in case of explosions |
the temperature in the tunnel was a cooling 18 degree Celsius and the tunnel was dripping with water due to the heavy downpour the day before... interesting experience
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| 豆花 at NT$30 (S$1.30) per bowl ....so so only.... confirm cannot be compared to our pudding kind of
豆花 |
forgetful me forgot to keep track of the time and missed the gold-panning session at 1130am by 6 minutes.... the next session would be at 1.30pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm (the previous one was at 1030am).... uber upset la.... =S .... we had other plans for the afternoon liao so have to forgo the chance to mine for some gold lo.... haix.....
so do remember to check out and remember the schedule from any of the helpful attendances there
beautiful scenery along the way....
