DAY 3

Day 3 was the day of the expensive complimentary tour.
SGD 15/pax of mandatory tips. It's actually alright if the tour guide does a great job but he...

1) Advertised for the commercialised areas that he's gonna bring us to on the bus instead of introducing landmarks.

2) Allowed us to spend only 5-30min on places of interest so that we can spend a longer time at the commercialised areas.

3) Pressured us to buy the goods at the commercialised places he brought us to.

3) Blatantly criticised those who did not buy or did not buy as much as he expected them to buy.

So it's quite a bad idea to spend $15 on a money minded tour guide.

ANYWAY,

At the memorial hall,



Behind us are 2 sets of white stairs, each with 89 steps that represented Chiang Kai Shek's age at his age of death.

The place was actually called 中正公园 but dear Mr Chen Sui Bian, having as many patterns as ever, decided to ban the use of "中正" (named after Chiang Kai Shek) and renamed it the 国立台湾民主纪念馆. The airport which was initially called the 中正国际机场 was subsequently renamed as the Taopei, Taoyuan Airport by the same dear man mentioned.

If i didn't remember wrongly, it's cause Chiang and Chen has different ideologies so the latter decided to do something so extreme.


Anyway, I'm going to say something that I've repeated in the past 2 entries and that is the weather is really super damn very extremely hot! Shot above 36 degree cel!


It's a famous scenic location where you can find landforms as a result of wave erosion, weathering and the act of earth's crust. And those processed created fantastic rock formations like the ginger heads above! And the park is famous for the Queen's head, Candlesticks and Fairy's shoe.