The trip to Taipei: A travel dairy for myself (Day 1) (updated)

Day 1 - The excitement for the arrival

The four-day trip is a noteworthy journey to memorise for all time, giving you new sense of their culture and custom as soon as you arrived, and you also have an opportunity to taste their various combinations of ingredients which makes up their quintessential Taiwanese meals, and more.

First, the arrival to Taipei International Taoyuan Airport. Not much difference from the Hong Kong International Airport. After an obfuscation for finding the correct bus route, we finally sorted out by figuring out the direction ourselves and eventually set off by boarding the airport coach (named "EVA Bus") to Taipei City to continue our journey, which lasted for about 55 minutes.

Traffic in the downtown of Taipei.

As soon as we alighted the coach, mobile phone bewildered us from contacting the housekeeper of the hostel which virtually squandered around an hour without any result. We popped into 7-11 convenience store nearby and asked for assistance, but seemingly not the pay-as-you-go plan we want. And we went to a local mobile telecom retailer for further assistance, and we were then told to proceed to the Telecom Bureau (or whatever the name is) for registration before making any purchase for pay-as-you-go data plan, though it sounded awkward and we left the shop. As for that, we left out the data plan for the time being and decided to head to our hostel due to the time we wasted. 

Similarly, the Taiwanese call their underground metro as "MRT" (looks very much alike the MTR in HK huh?). We boarded the train, and went along the yellow line to Yongan Market Station as our final stop. Ultimately, we met the housekeeper at entrance of the MRT station and she brought us all the way to the hostel.

Luo Hua Night Market in Yonghe District.

To be continued...