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SURF TAIWAN – C I J I N ISLAND

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23/07/2011

Eileen (above) is Swiss-German with a Taiwanese mother. She speaks good Chinese Mandarin. Leo is a chef and member of the surf club.

Eileen told me a little about the Cijin surf club.

1. Members  can store their boards and can over-night at the clubhouse if they wish.

2. Surf board hire  NT$500 per day.

3. Best surf is during the summer months. Kenting and Taidong (east coast) are good surf locations too.

4. Sharks are unknown at Cijin.

5. Height of surf waves is spoken about as follows:

Knee-high, waist-high (3 ft), chest-high, man-high (5 ft) – or, 1.5 man high  (7 ft) etc. Typhoons generate the big waves, several times each year.

6. Leo guided us to the tourist street, to a vegetarian eating house next door to the very old temple just off the busy street packed with weekend visitors.  The food he ordered was delicious and inexpensive. Locals mostly at this place.  (The menu on the wall will show which restaurant it is).

The vegetarian eating house menu – click picture to enlarge. Coffee available at the corner shop nearby – opposite temple.

 


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TAIPEI MAIN STATION – tips

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07/07/2011

1. Taipei Bus Station is nearby, across the street on the north side.

2. The Q square building adjoins the bus station (on the north side).  Shopping and new cinemas. Underground passage to and from bus station.

3. A MRT (local fast railway) entrance is on the south-east side of the main station building. Other entrances all over the place.

4. THSR (Taiwan High Speed Rail) is  downstairs in the main building.

5. Numerous quality restaurants are upstairs.

6. There are three or four underground malls on the north and south sides of Taipei Main Station, running east – west.  Bargain prices for most things.

7. Conventional country trains depart from underground in the Main Station.

8. Buses to  Taoyuan International Airport (NT$125) depart from a different building to the west of Taipei Main Station, opposite the pink skyscraper (Shin Kong Mitsukoshi).

9. Buses arriving from Taoyuan International Airport drop passengers on east side of Taipei Main Station.

10. Numerous hotels are in the area south and south-west, or across the road from Taipei Main Station.  The further west the cheaper.

11. City Inn Hotel are a pair of good medium priced, new hotels next to each other (NT$1400 per night) in ChangAn West Road, which is one block north of Taipei Main Station.  Weekdays are 30% cheaper than weekends. They have a website.

12. When raining street vendors sell umbrella’s outside station on south side. NT$100

13. Taipei streets may have East or West as part of their name.   A street becomes either east or west  determined by its place from Taipei Main Station – the centre point.

Have a personal treasure hunt and find this ginseng sake bottle with contents for sale.  Sake is a brewed Japanese wine about 15% proof.  Ginsen has healing properties – exactly what and how is another story.  Located near the front door.  West side of Taiwan National Museum (outside the park of course).  Restaurant staff speak no English yet will happily respond to sign language.  Have some fun.

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