GRACE_JO

yeah. back from taiwan... went to climb snow mountain.
first day....
we went to happy family hostel. there's lots of ppl there so the girls were arranged to go sleep in a room. and all we had was a few mattresses. and the one i was suppose to sleep on was filled with body oil smell. was so grossed up.. after we found a place at the hostel, we went for dinner at some la mian shop. the la mian was quite tasty.. had bubble tea after dinner. then we head to the super-mart to get the food for our climbing.. we shopped until like 2am in the morning... oh, i haven intro my group members yet. they are: Zhuan, Mr wilfred, Pk, Nadiah and me. they are really nice people. our group spent about 900 plus NT, while the other groups only spent around 500-600 plus. so imagine the amount of food we have.

second day....
we went to zhong zheng ji nian tang as qingying got to go back early for her interview. we witnessed the flag rising and wait till 8am for the gate to open so we can go in to have a look. we went in walked for a while then we were given some time to walk around the place, but weixuan and i was too tired to even move, so we find ourselves benches and we fall into super deep sleep. then zhuan and edmund came along and told a photo of us. so unglam sia. hees. after the visit to zhong Zheng ji nian tang, we went for lunch, then we went to the outdoor stall to get our equipments. after all the shopping, we get on a bus and we journeyed to OBT, to pack our foods and to leave the things that we dun need to use for the mountain. we stayed there for a night. and left for the mountain the next day...

third day...
we left and went to the mountain... the first hike was rather easy. we took an hour plus to reach our first hut, cika hut. weixuan, melvin, min, edmund and mingfei's group ask me to finished their unfinished apple.. then we went to bed like at 630pm.. and woke up the next morning at 4am to have breakfast and prepare to set off at 6am to our next destination.

fourth day...
we woke up at 4am to have breakfast and left for 369 hut. the hike was slightly tougher than the previous day. we rested at the observation place then we move on.. managed to reach the 369 quite early and had a early dinner. went to bed early once again.

fifth day...
the day we hike to the summit. the day when we all walked on ice. the day when i slipped off the ice and almost lost my life. the day when all of us was so satisfied when we reached the summit. after the summit, we went to the east peak as well. the day when we played slide, with weixuan going over a rock, mingfei going to the rocks and zhuan nearly killing mr wilfred... qingying became a panda, melvin brust his waterbag, khaizurah's pants split, we all had so much fun.

sixth day...
our objective was to climb to the north peak, but due to some dangers after mr wilfred and min went to recee, we decided not to head up there. so we found ourselves a place and camped there for the night. the place there was really freezing cold. we then had our dinner then we had our formal and boxer shorts photo taking in the freezing cold... everybody was like shivering and screaming and shouting when we took the photos. ahahas.

seventh day...
we went up to the circle/bowl to play with ice... yeah.. we make out henry junior snowman, slide down the mountain, practice self-arrest and played a game as well. those were really great time spent together. then we started our solo hike down to 369 then to the observation area. then our surprise came, mr wilfred gave us a situation: weixuan and henry are too tired to make it down here... i told them to rest at 369hut, and if they dun see us, they will go down the next morning.. we are then given two options, one is all of us go up back to 369, second is all of us go down and leave them at 369. we took a look time to discuss as all of us was already very tired. plus it's getting dark.. after the super long diccussion, we all decided to go down and let them rest at 369. we were all about to leave and trek to cika hut, then we were all called back... mr wilfred said we were so disappointing. and how could we bear to leave our friends up there... is not whether if they have food or not.. it's the friendship.. we were all quite down and we really feel very bad at the moment.. then there's a few taiwanese that cant down, and we described weixuan and henry to them... they then told us that weixuan and henry had already left 369 when they leave 369.. then we realized that the situation was not true.. then came another taiwanese coming back with henry's bag.. oops. the situation came real. henry was having lots of blisters and could not move as fast as he should be. so he is left behind walking himself. we then send mr wilfred, pk and qingying up to get henry and some waited and some went doen to get dinner ready for them.. we went down in the dark.. another experience. we then rested and the next time we headed down.

eighth day...
we headed down the mountain and we got to a camping area near the mountain.. the tents there was really spacious and comfortable. we left our stuff inside and finally we had a good shower.. then we walked down 7km to the tea house to had a little tea break... we walked like 1 and a half hour down while the bus only took 5 mins to drive the same distance. we then walked up again to had our dinner. then we spent the night eating instant noodles and chatting with qingying as she is leaving us the next day.

nineth day...
we went back to OBT to return our sleeping bag, tents and trekking poles.we then had our super nice dinner at some chinese restaurant. we all eat till we are so full. we then checked in to the super nice hostel near OBT... that was the nicest bed we laid on for the 11 days. and we had tv with 100 plus programs too. i shared a room with mingfei and melvin, we were all watching zhong yi da ge da's magic show when both mingfei and melvin fall asleep. i have to turn off the tv.. ahahas...

tenth day...
we headed back to taipei... 5 hours journey.. that was super long ya? then we went back to our happy family hostel once again. then we went jiou fen to eat and shopped. we had so little time to shop.. then we went to shilin.. we went to hot spring as well.. then we went to ximen when all the shops are all closed already. then we head back to happy family..

eleventh day, we were giving free and easy time. we went to some flower farm.. the place was super cold. it went down to 4 degrees.. we were all so cold then when the food came, we all eat like some hungry ghost... i think i got the orientation a little wrong. cant really remember le. then we headed back to the airport and home sweet home..

we had popeyes for supper that day.. :)