Date: 16 January 2014 Thursday
15:50 PM Shifen Waterfall å分大瀑布
A. 野柳地質公園 Yěliǔdìzhà Park
B. Shifen Waterfall å分大瀑布
Total Distance | Driving Time: 32.1 KM | 48 mins
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Finally arrived at Shifen Waterfall å分大瀑布.
Our tickets
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17:10 PM Shifen Old Street å分è€è¡—
A. Shifen Waterfall å分大瀑布
B. Shifen Old Street å分è€è¡—
Total Distance | Driving Time: 1.4 KM | 3 mins
We drove back to Shifen Old Street and managed to get a very good parking slot. Shifen Old Street is filled mainly by sky lanterns 天燈 and souvenir shops on both sides of the railway track. We got our own colourful lanterns from one of the shops and started on writing our wishes on them.
Happy R!
Our lanterns
R joining in too.
Tried our best to think of wishes…
Another lantern released into the sky.
Took a break to let the train pass.
Everyone getting ready to release their lanterns.
Getting ready ours too!
Time to let it GO!
Our family photo after releasing our lantern. We bought our souvenirs before leaving for Yilan.
19:50 PM Shanpu Hot Spring BnB @ Yilan 宜兰
A. Shifen Old Street å分è€è¡—
B. Shanpu Hot Spring BnB
Total Distance | Driving Time: 52.0 KM | 90 mins
We arrived in Yilan after driving for 1.5 hours. We took a while to locate Shanpu Hot Spring BnB because we didn’t expect it to be a shop house!
Our Shanpu Hot Spring BnB
We were very disappointed and JR questioned why I didn’t book the other bigger hotels instead :(. We remained in the car while JR went in to check in. One of the staff led us to the carpark, which is hidden in the building. The entrance to the carpark is well hidden and we had to use the passes provided to open the “gate” to the carpark.
Every part of the BnB is hidden. Shanpu Hot Spring BnB is huge! Our rooms were on the 13th floor.
MIL, JZ & JX’s room:
Our room:
21:15 PM Luodong Night Market 罗东夜市
A. Shanpu Hot Spring BnB
B. Luodong Night Market 罗东夜市
Total Distance | Driving Time: 24.0 KM | 28 mins
Dinner at the night market.
Back to the hotel after dinner.
The souvenirs, mini lanterns, from Shifen.