Taiwan Trip 2014 Day 7 Taipei -> Beitou (北投) -> Tamsui (淡水)

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ITINERARY

Day 1: Changi Airport > Taoyuan Airport > Sun Moon Lake 
Day 2: Sun Moon Lake > Cingjing  
Day 3: Cingjing > Taroko National Park > Hualien 
Day 4: Hualien 
Day 5: Hualien > Taipei (Huaxi Night Market)
Day 6: Taipei (Jiufen > Gongguan - Retail Outlet & Night Market)

Day 7: Taipei 台北 (Beitou 北投 > Tamsui 淡水)

Day 8: Taipei (Shinkong Mitsukoshi > Ximending > Shilin Night Market)
Day 9: Taipei > Taoyuan Airport

Early in the morning trying to find the stall for egg pancake (煎饼).
Ham Egg Pancake (火腿煎饼)

Settled for a nice breakfast and make our way for hotspring!

Took the metro line to go to beitou

Along the way to the thermal valley
A nice bamboo path

Free admission to the beitou thermal valley.
Very high temperature! Walking near to it, I can feel the heat already!!

Initially we had wanted to walk to the free to public hotspring dip, but after exploring around, there are so many places that offers a hotspring dip in a room. 
A zen garden at the hotel.

After this, we headed to Tamsui to meet our friend~~
At Tamsui station.
Must try! the fried mushroom. So many types, abalone, enoki, etc
Salt and Pepper Assorted Fried Mushrooms（盐酥菇）

Something that I only saw from the J-drama high school setting during their lunch time a hot selling item
Yakisoba Bread

Along the streets, there is still stall that sell mochi which is made from milk. From hot to cold type of mochi, from soup based to dry (powder coated) type, it's a must try. They also comes in vaccum pack to bring back but 7 days (if i rem correctly) is the maximum days before expiry.
Dry: Sesame, peanut, coconut with red bean (those placed horizontally)
Soup: Peanut, Red bean (those placed vertically)

After munching everything, we parked ourselves for sunset.



There is a new shopping mall nearby Tamsui also. We went there as our last stop for the day for dinner. 

Complimentary Salad with Japanese Sauce



Baked Cheese Curry (can't rem the type of meat)

The planned route for Day 7 is just two places but it was enough for us lazy bum as we have more time to slowly walk and explore and also flexible time for travelling around.

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