lunes, 25 de mayo de 2009

Jiou Fen 九份


Past days I have been reading “The Reader“ book, Jerry my classmate lend it to me, and I saw how writer describe every detail to make more interesting the book and I feel I like to write like that, but I think it will be very difficult, anyway I will try this cultural trip the most detail I can.

It was a Sunday day, I usually stay at home the Sunday but this time Brian had invited me to visit Jiou Fen, the meeting was at 13 hours in Zhong Xiao Fu Xing MRT Station for my bad luck and bad time planning I arrived 15 minutes earlier and since I do not like at all waiting I went to SOGO store that is in front of the place we arrange to meet. Before my friends told me I can get in that SOGO basement some good Mexican food products, so I went to take a look, I saw many imported products, all seem so delicious and all seems so luxury, even I saw one bottle of Chinese Green Tea, it was around 90NT so expensive. Anyway after keep watching things there, it was already 12, so I go back to the meeting place, when I arrived it starts to rain.

The first one to arrive there is Brian, he was using his umbrella because it was raining, and later the one who arrives was Iris with her cousin and finally 10 minutes later Connor arrive I taught we are ready to go there, but Connor said we have to wait his friends, they took around 30 minutes to arrive, as I said I hate waiting, and now I have to wait for people that I even do not know and when they arrived, they were not so friendly. We took the bus to got there, the ticket prize was 87 NT, I sited in front of the bus with Brian, we did not talk that much because Brian wanted to sleep, the way was so beautiful, Taiwan is so green and pretty but that is not this paper topic, later on we find many containers in the road, those containers are design to the use for big ships, to translate merchandise after a little investigation, I know it was use as harbor for the translation of the gold, when we just going to arrive the road become so full of curves and our bus driver seems do not want to be careful he keep driving fast, I felt dizzy and scared about the way he drives, but finally we arrived there, previously Brian have arrange with Jerry meet there coz he was in Yi Lan his hometown so when we arrived we met Jerry there.

Well in this point will be difficult to continue because I have to describe Jiou Fen and it will be difficult to describe it with my low English level but I will try my best. Jiou Fen is a small touristic place, with a lot of commerce and a beautiful see to the ocean, you can find many old style houses, now converted in restaurant and in the top of the mountain there is one really big temple, but is not the only one in the zone. Defiantly is a place you have to visit if you have the chance.

For my bad luck, the only think I can enjoy of Jiou Fen is the view, after we met Jerry we enter in this kind of street with all the souvenirs stores and food stores, I saw many food stores but not one I would like, the first think they bought it was stinky toufu with some brown kind of sauce in the top, well I had to past that I am not that into tofu, and while I was waiting the owner of the next store, kick me out the front part of his store in not very polite way, I want to say all the bad words I know to him, but at the moment I could not, every thing happened so fast, and after on while we keep waiting others, the daughter of the owner (that really do not seem to be a girl because the way she talk) came out and started to shout to my friends, that make me so angry but they as me did not know what to say, we just move out, later on while keep waiting, I put in front again and just see the face of the owner and trying to make him angry, but this time he just said nothing, after this bad experience with crazy people we keep walking the street, after the tofu, they go one kind of dessert store but again it was so Taiwanese for me, I decided not to eat, but this time, we have a place to sit, and the view was so amazing, we saw part of the town and the ocean, so pretty. In the middle of the street there was some stairs that lead us to the luxury restaurant zone, and over there is one restaurant that has two mask, that before one cartoon animator took and put it in cartoons as a ghosts or something like that I understood, that zone is so nice and when we finish the stairs we arrive to one road that lead us to the gold mine entrance, where the photo is taken, in the road I also took a photo in one kind of monument to the mine workers.

After we took photos in the entrance of the mine we came back to the street with the stores and we found a man writing Chinese name but he wrote it with Chinese calligraphy and so colorful, so pity there is one very pretty Japanese women buying a lot of names to take back home, so we had to wait a lot to get our name, and I did not want, for my good luck there is one man doing the same in Xi Men Tin, inside Taipei City. Later on we go back to the bus station, but as I did not eat anything before, Jerry found one store that sells mashed fish meat, that they make balls with the mash meet and later put it into soup, the flavor is not that bad, and besides that I ask my soup with some kind of transparent noodles.

Finally we took the bus to go back home, but since Jerry and Brian got sleep in the way, I had to take some photos of them sleeping most of the reason is because they both sleep with mouth open. We arrived Taipei and everyone go back home.

And if you want to know more about Jiou Fen you can check the Wikipedia webpage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jioufen

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