Met with Shiho to go meet up with Ben, Cyril and Jerome to go to Danshui. Somehow, I was the only one who got some amount of sleep even if it was only about 5 hrs. But Jerome didn't show and their door was locked. Found out later he had thrown up all night and josh had to help him. Then took train then MRT to go to Danshui--the last stop of the line. Shiho helped us get the MRT easy card so we wouldn't have to keep buying one trip coins and Ben found a map of Taipei that would be really useful. Once we got to Danshui we found that it was REALLY hot out. Danshui seemed like a really nice city actually, even though I thought it was a more historic place. The MRT station itself was nice. It had a Dunkin Donuts! And the Dunkin Donuts had misters around their seating area. There was a park surrounding it right next to the Danshui River so we took some pictures. After we were ready to move on, I saw a map floating in the river and I was like, haha Ben, there's your map! And unfortunately, it really was his map. Luckily I had my book, but that map wasn't very good. Finally the map floated up against the low wall so I just went and got it but it was soaking wet. Ben just ripped out the Danshui part to use. So almost immediately I got us lost a little bit, but mostly because all the side streets were little markets. It was really cool! Except the amounts of meat...by meat I mean every part of any animal you can think of to eat...organs, frogs, pigs, etc. Like I learned first hand that pig hearts ARE a reasonable replacement for a human heart, by the looks of it. We finally found Longshan Temple (another one), which was hard to find because it was in the middle of one of those little market streets. Then tried to look for Danshui Historic Street and Little White House and Red Castle, when we realized the map was shit. I got ice cream in a 7-11 while Ben asked for directions (it was my day off of being group leader :P) because I was about to pass out. Then we finally made it. It turned out it was really some old Customs officer's house. It was small, but the view was beautiful and the house looked very elegant and simple. Newlyweds were getting their pictures taken there. Then walked to Fort San Domingo. I didn't think this would be that great
either but the view was beautiful. Then ate at a random
restaurant that ended up being italian food, but had awesome milk tea :) And gave a dessert at the end that was yummy. Reminded me of my creme brulee, just without the actual brulee. Then walked the Fort Huwei, which we got a little lost too. On the way we found Martyr's Shrine. It was nice, but very empty. There was a cool circle statue that a sat in and was pretty comfortable. Then got to the Fort. This was allright, nothing really special, but we had bought a package ticket that included admission to here so had to come. Then got the bus to Fisherman's Wharf. The wharf, though small (relative to the one in San Fransisco!) and kinda empty, had a gorgeous pedestrian bridge. After a while there was also a rainbow behind it! Then we went off in search of a beach, which I was very skeptical about. Someone told me there was a beach, but she had heard it was closed now. Still we went. When we got in there it looked like shit. There was trash right in front of us on the little sand there was. The rest of rocks with barnacles on em. Still they wanted to walk down because we noticed a possible real beach. As we walked I realized it was really beautiful, and saw there was real beach farther down. Ben wanted to go deeper into the rocks so we followed but me and Shiho finally gave up beca
use it was getting too unsteady. We continued on towards the beach, then went in search of a bathroom for me. We walked all around and finally found a bathroom but it looked really dirty and was $10 (30cents). So I asked a lady if there was a bathroom and she said to ask the store aroudn the corner. Went in there and they charged me $10 anyway, but at least it was cleaner and had toilet paper. Once I came out the sun was starting to set. At first it was just a normal sunset but as time progressed it was AMAZING. Even after we couldn't see the sun anymore, there were even prettier pictures. It was gorgeous and made me really happy. The water was also really warm, though we just walked up to our knees (that's when Shiho gave up and put her shoes back on to go to safe ground). There were tons of newlyweds and ladies taking professional pics on the beach (btw they were EVERYWHERE in Danshui, every tourist place we went had brides). Then it was getting dark so we decided it'd be good to head to the Night Market which was by the MRT station anyway. Ben noticed the bridge had neon lights on it now so he ran ahead to take a picture then met us to take the bus back. The buses are hilarious because they're so rickety and you get tossed around because they drive fast. We went to the night market, but this was a fancy one, so not as cheap. Cyril really wanted McDonalds so we went there lol. Danshui has specialty foods, but we ended up eating only non Asian things (though I had corn soup at McDs!) Then went on our journey back to YZU. It was funny because Shiho kept falling asleep while we were standing on the train holding on to the pole. Her head would fall and hit my shoulder (she's real short) and she'd wake up and we'd crack up (she's japanese...they laugh a lot!) . She also tried teaching us some japanese, which I mostly forget. But I taught her sand and some other words she didn't know. Also shared some french-borrowed english with Ben and Cyril and it was funny to hear the french pronunciation.
Met with Shiho to go meet up with Ben, Cyril and Jerome to go to Danshui. Somehow, I was the only one who got some amount of sleep even if it was only about 5 hrs. But Jerome didn't show and their door was locked. Found out later he had thrown up all night and josh had to help him. Then took train then MRT to go to Danshui--the last stop of the line. Shiho helped us get the MRT easy card so we wouldn't have to keep buying one trip coins and Ben found a map of Taipei that would be really useful. Once we got to Danshui we found that it was REALLY hot out. Danshui seemed like a really nice city actually, even though I thought it was a more historic place. The MRT station itself was nice. It had a Dunkin Donuts! And the Dunkin Donuts had misters around their seating area. There was a park surrounding it right next to the Danshui River so we took some pictures. After we were ready to move on, I saw a map floating in the river and I was like, haha Ben, there's your map! And unfortunately, it really was his map. Luckily I had my book, but that map wasn't very good. Finally the map floated up against the low wall so I just went and got it but it was soaking wet. Ben just ripped out the Danshui part to use. So almost immediately I got us lost a little bit, but mostly because all the side streets were little markets. It was really cool! Except the amounts of meat...by meat I mean every part of any animal you can think of to eat...organs, frogs, pigs, etc. Like I learned first hand that pig hearts ARE a reasonable replacement for a human heart, by the looks of it. We finally found Longshan Temple (another one), which was hard to find because it was in the middle of one of those little market streets. Then tried to look for Danshui Historic Street and Little White House and Red Castle, when we realized the map was shit. I got ice cream in a 7-11 while Ben asked for directions (it was my day off of being group leader :P) because I was about to pass out. Then we finally made it. It turned out it was really some old Customs officer's house. It was small, but the view was beautiful and the house looked very elegant and simple. Newlyweds were getting their pictures taken there. Then walked to Fort San Domingo. I didn't think this would be that great 
either but the view was beautiful. Then ate at a random
restaurant that ended up being italian food, but had awesome milk tea :) And gave a dessert at the end that was yummy. Reminded me of my creme brulee, just without the actual brulee. Then walked the Fort Huwei, which we got a little lost too. On the way we found Martyr's Shrine. It was nice, but very empty. There was a cool circle statue that a sat in and was pretty comfortable. Then got to the Fort. This was allright, nothing really special, but we had bought a package ticket that included admission to here so had to come. Then got the bus to Fisherman's Wharf. The wharf, though small (relative to the one in San Fransisco!) and kinda empty, had a gorgeous pedestrian bridge. After a while there was also a rainbow behind it! Then we went off in search of a beach, which I was very skeptical about. Someone told me there was a beach, but she had heard it was closed now. Still we went. When we got in there it looked like shit. There was trash right in front of us on the little sand there was. The rest of rocks with barnacles on em. Still they wanted to walk down because we noticed a possible real beach. As we walked I realized it was really beautiful, and saw there was real beach farther down. Ben wanted to go deeper into the rocks so we followed but me and Shiho finally gave up beca
use it was getting too unsteady. We continued on towards the beach, then went in search of a bathroom for me. We walked all around and finally found a bathroom but it looked really dirty and was $10 (30cents). So I asked a lady if there was a bathroom and she said to ask the store aroudn the corner. Went in there and they charged me $10 anyway, but at least it was cleaner and had toilet paper. Once I came out the sun was starting to set. At first it was just a normal sunset but as time progressed it was AMAZING. Even after we couldn't see the sun anymore, there were even prettier pictures. It was gorgeous and made me really happy. The water was also really warm, though we just walked up to our knees (that's when Shiho gave up and put her shoes back on to go to safe ground). There were tons of newlyweds and ladies taking professional pics on the beach (btw they were EVERYWHERE in Danshui, every tourist place we went had brides). Then it was getting dark so we decided it'd be good to head to the Night Market which was by the MRT station anyway. Ben noticed the bridge had neon lights on it now so he ran ahead to take a picture then met us to take the bus back. The buses are hilarious because they're so rickety and you get tossed around because they drive fast. We went to the night market, but this was a fancy one, so not as cheap. Cyril really wanted McDonalds so we went there lol. Danshui has specialty foods, but we ended up eating only non Asian things (though I had corn soup at McDs!) Then went on our journey back to YZU. It was funny because Shiho kept falling asleep while we were standing on the train holding on to the pole. Her head would fall and hit my shoulder (she's real short) and she'd wake up and we'd crack up (she's japanese...they laugh a lot!) . She also tried teaching us some japanese, which I mostly forget. But I taught her sand and some other words she didn't know. Also shared some french-borrowed english with Ben and Cyril and it was funny to hear the french pronunciation.
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