TAIWAN'S FAIRYTALE TOWN JIUFEN
foreign [Music] foreign [Music] everyone here from Taipei in Taiwan once again we're just about to go on a little trip to a place called juven I think that's how you pronounce it supposed to be like one of the most beautiful little towns here in Taiwan and we're going there by bus we're going to be spending the night so we got this thing called the easy card and you saw that this is one of the easiest ways to get around yeah yeah I think everybody buys it when they come here and it gives you an entrance to many places you need to top up and then you use it on buses or on train mrts which is their Metro and you can also rent those little bikes that you see on the road you pay a hundred dollars to buy it but I think so we just put like 300 credit on ours and yeah we're gonna use that on the bus obviously this is a station here stations are pretty good you can see the bus name there tells you how long it's gonna take 60 Minutes hours oh [Music] thank you [Music] all right so we've arrived in jufin now an extremely beautiful ride especially the last part when we started going up into the mountains where we are right now and from the bus stop here I already got some really beautiful views look at the ocean back there and got some cool temples too one here you can see some down there we saw some scattered around in the mountains too didn't we yeah there was one that was super big but I don't know how to get there yeah I'm not sure it was on this mountain side can I think you can see the top of it in the distance there so I think this is the entrance here the old Street so right now we're still kind of early so I think that's why a lot of the places look closed or like they're just about uh open a lot of the stores it is a Friday right now so later on it's gonna get packed apparently apparently on weekends this place is like insanely busy foreign [Music] just these little Alleyways everywhere I did read online that it's like a bit of a maze I already smells some good food here it's really good we'll get some good food later on which direction yeah I think at night they light up all the Chinese lanterns that's why we decided to stay overnight here because I think most people just come for a Day Tour and they go back to Taipei but we wanted to see this place at night too yeah it looks extra special at night so that's a really nice Viewpoint that looks like a less touristy part maybe a more residential part of the The Village you can still walk down there I think you can see all these cool restaurants and cafes and we just found out that this is the place that we're going to be staying tonight too early to to check in though got this guy somebody's in here yeah Carol chose this spot so look at where the people are eating here with that view down there that'll be us later on our tomorrow morning [Music] so this was a very small town there weren't many people living here but then in 1890s they discovered gold hair and it became a gold mine in town and then it increased rapidly and during that time it was actually on the Japanese Occupation literally our views everywhere so you can probably already see why this is considered one of the most beautiful towns in Taiwan I mean you got the views the beautiful Green Mountains everywhere surrounded nice little houses and Alleyways loads of cute little stores that is that the cherry blossom oh yeah just to make it even better so this area that we're walking through now is the part that I said look more residential so you don't really get many stores or anything on this side only over there I think this is just where the majority of people live so we found yet another Viewpoint absolutely nobody walking around here I don't think many people arrive and then pretty much leave I think they just stick around that area but it's cool because you can see the whole thing and I think you can hike up that mountain so we might do that later on after we check in get some good views from there too definitely more people arriving now so it might be a bit busier when we get back [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] about tunnels we thought it might have been like the mining tunnels but it's not as far a car to pass through pretty cool though quite drifting yeah it's nice and nice and cool in this tunnel there's quite a few tunnels around here but yeah it's definitely not anything for a mining oh wow a nice area on the other side looks like some sort of restaurant or Cafe I think it's closed right now that'd be a nice spot to eat at yeah super calm here yeah it really is calm I don't think there's much traffic or anything coming through here so even in the winter when the sun is out it's really nice the weather in Taiwan from what we've seen so yeah today is around like 20 degrees so that's like the perfect temperature and that's like the ideal temperature for me but I think we even had some days where it was 27. yeah one day when it's cloudy it just gets too cold yeah it drops yeah very drama very big drop one day was 27 and the other day it was 15 or something 15 yeah yeah a big difference depending on if the Sun or not so we're back in the main Center so just an hour later you can already see the the difference now way more people now we got cues so some of you may have seen the Japanese anime film called Spirited Away which I think is like the most famous one or one of yeah maybe one of the most famous anime and I think he is famous because it looks similar to it some people say it was the place that inspired but we read that that's not true yeah the director said it's not true it's not true but it does remind of the the film yeah so I think especially this one is one that looks like one out of that film I haven't seen it yet I did see a picture from the film it had like the Chinese lanterns and stuff so I think that's a famous tea house we might go in there I don't know it's a busy one there's lots of empty ones yeah this is the most famous because of the the movie so next to the famous tea house they also have this nice statue here showing the gold mining and this guy turned up now for the guitar sounds nice I'll give him a tip [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] thank you foreign [Music] so we ended up coming to a different tea place that one there seemed to only have like Teeth taste and taste in multiple teas and we didn't really want that they also didn't have any good places anymore because obviously it was all taken because it's so popular but the one that we've come to here is completely empty pretty much here on the rooftop nobody here only us so for 370 we got the matcha latte and yours is just a coffee latte yeah coffee latte it's good very good coffee yeah so that's probably like Taurus price right because we're in such a touristy Zone the other place that we went was quite expensive too compared to the price of other things in in Taiwan I've actually already had a taste to mine but it tastes like warm milk I'm not really a taste in much matcha in there for some reason it's just like warm milk so not not so good mine but at least carols is good we ended up coming to another place now this time to eat though since that other place only had tea and coffee obviously with a view everywhere has a view here so I can't avoid that I think I'm gonna get some fried noodles beef fried noodles 120 you're gonna get noodles too yeah I will ask if they can do the same but without meat maybe with tofu yeah yeah I think they'll be able to do it so this is how the noodles are really a big portion so that's nice it looks very juicy too all this sauce so they wouldn't do Tofu for Carol but yeah you got your veggie noodles anyway yeah it's a different kind of sauce I don't know what sauce that is but I haven't tasted that kind of sauce before delicious though oh [Music] foreign [Music] so we're just doing some souvenir shopping for once which we never do and these are keychains I think aren't they they have three sizes small medium big one and there's a light inside okay like a balloon right like those ones that they release in the air yeah how much is that then uh 120 for this month okay thank you so we mentioned about the film Spirited Away so these are some of the characters from that film so even though it eventually had nothing to do with the film from what the director said they obviously still make the most of it I think they actually added to the fame of this place yeah I think even like the two tourists tourism agencies they sell this place like they play some from the Spirited Away from the movie yeah yeah so we've checked into our accommodation now this place is called Shanghai Guan guest house it's actually a different building to the one that I showed before where people were eating with their views it's the same owner that's why we're gonna have like breakfast though which is included in this price so this is 90 a day it is a bit of a fancy one for the area I think you could find places for around sixty dollars a bit more simple so this is the main bedroom area here already from the bedroom we get some great views yeah really nice user so this is more that residential but probably a bit quieter so that's nice then this looks like more of a Japanese style right where they sit pretty much on the floor a nice big TV mini fridge here oh I just noticed that and then this is a bathroom looks nice and modern and the main reason Carol wanted to stay here was for the bathtub oh it's a big bathtub isn't it even a TV over there yeah you can watch TV in the bathtub so we'll probably do that tonight it's like a two three personal one as well little C maybe that's even Japanese style I'm not sure but it's nice when you're in colder places it's gonna get cold here at night you can have a nice warm bath [Music] foreign [Music] so we're gonna do that trail that I mentioned before up the mountain back there that's called mount kilung how long did people say that it takes some people say one hour some people said 15 minutes really I think it just depends on how fit you are hopefully we can do it fast let's see yeah we'll see how long it takes I mean it looks extra steep so the trail is like a cobbled pathway it's not the best for a trail because it's all like different angles and sprain your ankle yeah it's kind of weird to walk on I don't know if it's going to be like this all the way I don't know steps already I think we're going to be doing a lot of steps those look nice lots of pink flowers everywhere around here in Taiwan right now [Music] yeah this Trail is no joke probably one of the hardest ones I've ever done not even exaggerating just because it's constantly steps and yeah we've easily done over a thousand I'll check online how many it is problem is now we're in the clouds so look if you look down there can't see anything anymore we obviously are wanting the views so maybe it'll open up we'll have to see [Music] so we have made it I think it took us around 28 minutes overall Garden minutes very hard very hard you have no idea how someone did that in in 15 minutes Carol actually tracked it on a wrap it's around 3 000 steps and that's pretty much just steps constantly going up so yeah that's a lot of steps on this side at least it's kind of clear over the ocean I don't know if that's caused the mountain here is soaking up the clouds we are in the clouds here I guess we'll just wait to see if the clouds pass yeah mountain range only see this part here yeah just this right now still looks kind of cool though I guess foreign [Music] steps in 28 minutes no I'm just waiting for this stuff just waiting for the Sun not tired now so we're heading back down now I don't think it's gonna open up while we're here probably when we get down it will open up now but we've been here like an hour so not gonna wait here forever it's pretty cold up here too you can even see mountain tops there at the back so their clouds are lower when we were in the center though I did fly the Drone and I got some shots up here so I'll show you those right now [Music] foreign [Music] so we're now going for the night walk that we really wanted to do so as we mentioned before all the lanterns are lit it up now I don't know if it's like that on every single one this far is though actually seems a bit quieter right now compared to midday I think a lot of the day tours just leave before night time it's so quiet not so quiet here oh yeah it was just that area then so this is that street with the famous tea house that we saw earlier so I think this is like the most famous street pretty much too pretty packed it's the nicest looking one though at night man look how chaotic it is now at that main Viewpoint of the tea house yeah I was definitely wrong it's way way busy yeah yeah beautiful I really love it yeah I'm loving it too just a beautiful town yeah so we stopped at this drink place here we're gonna have another attempt to match your latte this is more of a bubble tea place I think Taiwan actually created the bubble tea so you've got matcha bubble tea there Pearl matcha latte I'm gonna get it warm though I think a lot of people get it cold and that's 85 and everything's actually closing early here it seems it's 7 30 but many stores are already closed the shutters are down and it got empty pretty quick too so now we're gonna try the famous dessert called Taro you can get it either ice or hot or one cup 50 Taiwanese dollars [Applause] that's it already 15. yeah thank you thank you so I think they have title balls and sweet potatoes inside there's some like little beans as well by the looks of it yeah those little green things mung beans mung beans maybe yeah so Taro is like a root that they have here some sort of root and from what we heard this is the famous place for eign I don't know yeah that's weird it's very chewy really they'll probably each one's different right or is it all Taro in different colors I don't get it I don't know I try to and they have the same the same taste try it out too because it looks interesting got an orange one thank you [Music] yeah it's not sweet potato foreign yeah I'm like Carol so meat tastes like the the same taste but it's a good dessert because it's not too sweet no so I guess it's kind of healthy if it's a root yeah because it's a lot so if it was too sweet I I don't think I would be able to eat it also the tea is awesome next time so really good first time I've had it with uh the pearls so that's nice because I was gonna finish that off now it's kind of squishy though like jelly yeah interesting texture like when you think of root you think I I just thought of like sweet potato like you said where it's mushy [Music] foreign accommodation once again as I mentioned before we're gonna make the most of the battery it's steaming right now so that's gonna be nice got some anime on as well for the first time watching anime in a in a bathtub it's actually not that cold though in the street seems to be colder in here than outside I don't know if this kind of like contains the cold this building and that's going to be it here from Dual fin what do you think about going to the gold mines and I think there's also a waterfall nearby but we're gonna go to a different area called shifen we'll leave those for another time if we ever come back to here and it's definitely a place where we could have spent longer since there are these other things to do maybe two nights would have been ideal I definitely wouldn't do the day trip like everyone else does I think it's a place that's definitely worth spending the night or multiple days so quite a few more videos coming here from Taiwan if you like this one just drop a like to support us subscribe see more videos like this follow us on Facebook and Instagram and we'll see in the next one [Music]
2023-03-21 20:23
