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My Taiwan Trip's Planner

Day 1 (Tuesday)

Departure from LCCT at 9.50 am. Arrival at Taoyuan Airport at 3.45 pm. Baucher will pick us up at the Airport at 4.00 pm. After one hour drive from Touyuan to Taipei( 48 km / 59 min). Check-in to a 3 bedroom apartment at 5.00 pm. Rest for a while, Baucher will bring us to Shilin Night Market (士林夜市 [劍潭站]) or 华西街观光夜市 or 饶河街夜市 or 西门町观光夜市 for dinner and shopping.

Day 2 (Wednesday)

Wake up at 7.00am and departure for Breakfast. At 7.45am, breakfast at 鼎泰豐 (DingTaiFong), famous with steamed dumpling. After one hour, at 9am, visit 中正紀念堂 National Chiang Kai-Sek Memorial Hall to see the performance of the soldiers' handover routine show. At 9.45am, Baucher will bring us to Yang Ming Shan 陽明山 (21 km / 53 min), plan to visit Yang Ming Shan twice (day time and night time), so that we can view the cherry blossom in two different environment. At 11am, Baucher will bring us to Keelung (34 km / 45 min). At 1pm, lunch at the famous 基隆廟口 Keelung Miew-Kow Hawkers' center. plan to walk around keelung town and take some pictures. At about 2.30 pm, Baucher will bring us to 野柳 Ya Liu. At about 4.pm, visit  陽明山小油 坑山地形 Volcano's crack, a volcano release outlet of steams. At about 5pm, visit Cafe Avatar  台北奧萬大」-(偷閒賞楓咖啡座，是陽明山上一處冬春賞楓、炎夏避暑，偷閒賞景喝咖啡的好地方), a relaxing place for a cup of coffee (and tea) at Yang Ming Shan. At 7pm, to view the night scape from the Yangmin mountain especially the night cherry blossom. At about 9pm, visit 馬槽花藝村晚餐＋泡溫泉 (Village of Ma Chow Wu Yee for dinner and hot spring). may consider viewing the night scape at one of the mountain top :- 仰德大道台灣神學會附近、文化大學後山、竹子湖觀景台. At about 11pm, return to Taipei.

Day 3 (Thursday)

Check out at 7.30 am and having breakfast at 復興南路 清粥小菜 （早餐）, then, at 9.30am, Baucher will bring us to Yilan宜蘭 (52.9km/ 1 hour 15 min). 11am, visit LanYang Museum  蘭陽博物館. At 1pm having lunch at Yilan. At 2.30pm, check in to 九份民宿 龍門客棧 Dragon Inn at Jiufen. After check in, we will visit the Gold Ecological Park , Prince Inn, Gold Mining 黃金博物館 太子賓館、黃金採礦坑, 黃金瀑布 . At about 6pm, visit Jiufen 九份老街 (more 1) for dinner. After that, we can relax at jiufen and enjoy some Chinese tea while admiring the night scape of Jiufen 選茶館泡茶賞夜景. 

Day 4

5.30, View Sun Raise (more 1) at Jiufen.



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