That was the first thing I spotted when we took the bus up to our hotel yesterday. Not that it is famous or anything, but the steps up the mountain can be seen from afar and it looks so amazing!
We were supposed to take Bus 825 from our hotel at 金瓜石 (黄金博物馆) to 隔顶 to begin our hike, but Shi Hui just likes to ask around so we took Bus 1062 there instead, even though the bus does not stop there usually. That's good though! Since we saved some time from waiting for Bus 825 to arrive.
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| Keelung Mountain |
The hike up only took about 45 minutes, which was so much easier than climbing up to 七星公园 at 陽明山. However, there was literally no foliage around so we had to carry our umbrella for the entire time to protect ourselves from the scorching hot sun. But this also means that you can stop at any point of time to enjoy the scenery during the climb up.
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| Double thumbs up for us? |
For me, the worst part about Keelung Mountain was actually when we were at the top of it.
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| Stairway to heaven |
On the way up, we spotted several brightly coloured lizard-like reptiles. At the top, there were many bright blue butterflies, and XY even accidentally stepped and killed a caterpillar! :O BUT, there was also a lot of bees buzzing around!!! I was so afraid of them I couldn't wait to get away from the top of the mountain. T.T
But of course, I had to take pictures first right? Hahaha.
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| We ended up on that winding road afterwards!! |
To be honest, the climb was not very worth it since it is almost the same view as from 九份.
Since Keelung Mountain was right next to 九份, we went there for lunch again. Each of us had a bowl of 赖阿婆芋圆 cos it was so good. We traced our steps from yesterday to experience 九份 without the horrible crowd since it was only in the early afternoon.
Afterwards, we headed for 黄金瀑布 (Golden Waterfall)!
As we had waited for the bus for eons, we decided to just try our luck and asked the next bus if it goes to 黄金瀑布.
Nope it doesn't. ):
BUT, the kind driver of Bus 1062 decided to take some time off his break time and went out of his way to give us a mini private tour! (谢谢#3) He brought us to a place he claimed to be a secret scenic spot, before dropping us off at 黄金瀑布.
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| Overlooking 阴阳海 |
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| 黄金瀑布 |
Spent only a few minutes at 黄金瀑布 for photo taking cos it was so sunny. The bus wait was really long again and we almost wanted to walk to 阴阳海 (Yin Yang Sea). Thank god the bus came when we were about to walk there!
Yet, 阴阳海 was nothing like what we expected.
We thought we could chill and rest at the beach after the hike in the morning, but it was situated right next to the highway protected by breakwaters, and we could only take pictures of it by the narrow road shoulder.
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| 阴阳海 |
Yes, that's all. ):
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| Abandoned Refinery near 阴阳海 |
At least it was the last stop so the bus driver took a short nap, and we could quickly board the bus back up.
Having nothing else to do, we went back to our hotel even though it was only about 4pm. Locals had warned us against staying out late since we were living on top of a mountain. It is dangerous as the area becomes deserted at night.
Shops closes at 5pm, so we had to takeaway our dinner. Given the limited choices of food, we tried the Miner's Bento from Gold Mine Museum Cafe.
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| 200 NTD Miner's Bento |
It's tasted just like any other bento, but the Miner's concept made it that overpriced. The cloth to wrap the bento was actually a map of 金瓜石 though!
The rest of the evening/night was spent in our room re-watching Spirited Away since we were at 九份, the inspiration setting for the movie.
On the bright side, our hotel layout was super comfortable! 3 single mattresses of which each was almost the size of a double bed.
We all hate sleeping on double beds and had to oya-peya-som to get the single bed if the hotels did not provide 3 singles. But here I am, lying on a double bed with Shi Hui, for at least the next 4 months. ):
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