My trip in Taipei

            It was the first time that I had been to Taipei and I found the country an interesting place to visit. My family and I visited quite a few spots in Taipei such as Yeliu, Ximending and the Shilin Night Market. My favourite place was Yeliu as there was the cooling sea breeze and there were many rocks that have been carved into shapes by nature.

            We went on a tour which took us to Yeliu. The place was divided into three sections. We visited  two of the three sections which consisted of the Queen's head, Fairy's Shoe, Candle and Dragon Head. As we went there during the December holidays, the weather there was freezing. While we was there, we also visited the marine centre. It gave me an underwater view of the ocean and there were many different kinds of marine life.

            The tour also took us to a place uphill called Jiufen. We walked along a narrow street selling food and souvenirs. It was very crowded there and when we walked to the end of the street, we enjoyed the scenery. After that, we took our lunch there in a shop selling fishball noodles. We then moved out of the area in the tour coach to a place called Shilin Night market.

            The Shilin Night Market was packed with people when we went there at night. We found many food shops there selling stinky tofu and that most of the shops sell the same food. The whole place smelled of food. The queues were extremely long and we had to wait a long time before it was our turn. As the hotel we stayed in is in the Ximending area, we had to take a long train ride back and it was late when we finally got back to our hotel room.

           

            The next day, we went to Ximending to have dinner and enjoy ourselves. Ximending is the largest entertaining centre in Taipei. We went there at night to sight-see and to have dinner. We bought some food from the roadside shops as we walked. The food there was delectable and we enjoyed it very much. Nobody knew what would happen next. My mother went on a shopping spree and bought many clothes and handbags. My father had to take my brother and I back to the hotel first as we both had no intention to follow her.