小杰， our taxi drive reached at 8am and off we go to our next destination.
On the way our from 乌来，we stopped by an snapped some photos of this 吊桥。
Reached 十分 around 10am. Remember the famous Taiwan movie 那些年， 我们一起追过的女孩？Yupe. That's where it was filmed.
We went there for 放天灯。
We ordered one (NT$200 each) , and wrote our wishes at all 4 faces of the lattern.
Spent some time there for photo snapping, and that's about this place. Off we go to our next destination.
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九份- 老街. A place to shop and eat, just like any other 夜市.
We spent our whole afternoon there, buying lots of souvenirs like 姜母茶， 凤梨酥， etc...
There is something really special that we've noticed in Taiwan. People here have a very good awareness of equality and animal rights. You can see that the level of acceptance of the people here towards animals and pets is way way 197664x higher than those in .... Ehem.... *cough cough* ......
Dogs and cats are brought along together with their owner when they go to work. It's totally not a rare scene to see restaurants/boutique shops with the pets of the owner roaming around when customers are patronizing.
There r even corners where stated that this is a place for feeding stray cats. And everyone will just walk up to the cats and stroke or play with them. You never see a scene where people are kicking, or chasing after strays like they are owning their mothers NT$18364 million dollars.
Taiwanese have the practice of catch-neuter-release program. All strays that are neutered will have their ears clipped, so that they can be easily recognized. It's a very common drive in most of the advanced countries, but some of the countries ... *cough cough* still prefers to choose the easy path of exterminating the u lucky ones.
Another thing 九份Is famous of is its yam balls （芋圆）. We rested at this special place or this dessert, where all it's tables are made of natural wood/stone crafts.
On the way back, I just couldn't resist myself from getting on of these local musical instrument of Taiwan. It's call 陶笛, a flute made of clay.
The top a made up of 6 holes, while the bottom consists of a variety of low numbered holes depends on the level of complexity. I bought the beginner level's with one hole at the bottom. Lets see how I progress with it when I get back to Malaysia. Hahaha. :)
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九份 was once a very huge gold producing place. Until recent years this stops after the depletion of that natural resource. Throughout the years of mining has causes some natural pollution to Mother Earth. 黄金瀑布 is one of the consequences of this.
庙中庙 is another place we visited.
As the name depicts, there is another small temple within this temple.
We learnt something very important from 小杰. When we were about to enter the temple from the main entrance, he was so surprised and worried and immediately stopped us. He was surprise that we weren't aware of the unspoken rules when entering a temple, which was something really totally new to us.
According to him, a temple normally has 3 entrance, the centre, the left and the right. As there is a Chinese saying , 左青龙，右白虎。we never want to enter into the mouth of a tiger. And entering a temple thru the middle (main) door is something very disrespectful. And as such , we should enter a temple from the left entrance, and come out from the right door.
That's mostly about it. The day ended with us staying in a lousy hotel in 基隆, and had our dinner and night shopping in 庙口夜市。that's a story for another day. :)
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