Hi I'm Ting Ting and today we're gonna go hiking. Let's go!
Alright so here's a map of Kaohsiung. I'll show you we're going to go.
So there are two main ways, two main trailheads to climb the mountain.
The first one is here. The locals call this trailhead Shou Shan
even though this mountain, you can see, is pretty much all one mountain,
I don't know maybe it's technically two -
but it's pretty much all one mountain.
This side is Shou Shan, the south side,
and the north side is called Chai Shan,
that's kind of how the locals will differentiate the two,
and you can see this is kind of the center of Kaohsiung,
this is Formosa Boulevard station,
this is the red MRT line and this is the orange MRT line
so you can't catch the MRT directly to the mountain
but you can consider catching it up to one of these stations
and grabbing a taxi across depending on where you're staying.
So if you're a family if you want to go to the zoo
and you want to make a day of it then maybe climbing up here
at Shou Shan Zoo is the way to go,
the trail is a little less steep
but it's not exactly a huge big difference
because both of them have plenty of stairs and things like that.
I prefer the trail at Chai Shan, which is where we're going today.
I prefer it because there's a lot of leaf cover so there's less sun,
it's much greener, I just think it's much nicer
so even though it's further from my house that's where I go.
So we're gonna be climbing up this end today.
There it is, there's the mountain, so see the description for a map how to get here to this 7,
and you need to walk straight down that little alley next to the 7
and we're going to get to the trailhead, I'll show you in a minute.
You just have to follow the alleyway around until you see this Buddhist temple okay
now at the moment the gate is shut because I'm here at 6:30
but a bit later on they open it
if you need to go to the toilet you can go in here
you just go into that door there and then you turn left straight away
you'll see the signs towards the toilet. When you actually get to the toilet there's
only Chinese characters on it so left is men's right is ladies okay
So to go to the toilet you don't need to go into the worshipping bit
you just go straight in and turn to the left.
Everyone can go so that's no problem
but if you're coming early in the morning
you might just want to go before you leave home
that way after you finish climbing the mountain you can go here.
And the trailhead is just next door. Let's go.
If you came by scooter which I did, you can park here no problem.
The trailhead is just there in front, you see where all those people are going, those steps
Okay so when you come to the mountain you gotta remember,
don't bring any food because there are monkeys,
it's actually a rule of the mountain, that you're not allowed to bring any food
you'll see signs that say it so please just don't,
no packets, nothing,
I don't know how they know but even if stuff's in packets, they just know.
When you start climbing there's steps
and just keep on following the steps until you get to a choice
So the mountain has a lot of trails and there are some that are off the path
we're following the path today but you can take a picture of the map if you
want to get really complicated but just remember that if you did park your
scooter back at Longquan temple trail entrance then make sure that you
get back there, if you caught a taxi maybe not so important.
Maybe it doesn't matter.
So here's the map.
Okay we want to go to a place called Yazuo but they changed the signs now
but they did put English on them which is good
so you got to follow this one, Xiaoping Pavilion,
if you want to get to Yazuo...
if you want to go what's called tough-guy way
then maybe you want to go here.
We're currently in the first little pavilion where you can have a little rest.
So if you want to go up that way that way it will actually
still lead you to Yazuo, you can still get there but maybe if it's your
first time just go up this way okay?
Next you will come to a crossroads
and there's another map which is very helpful and
we want to go to Yazuo
okay? So you've got two ways, Xiaoping and Yazuo.
You want to go to Yazuo and look it's only 35 minutes away
So we're turning left alright?
Okay we're halfway we made it halfway
how long did it take us?
About half an hour just to get here
so it's not a really hard hike
And we are at the zhong xin ting.
So you can have a rest here,
possibly get bitten by some mosquitoes
that's another thing I didn't mention probably bring some ...
what's it called in English?
Bring some mosquito spray so you don't get bitten by mosquitoes
that would be a good idea
and after we've had a little rest
we will continue to the top
which will probably just take us another half an hour.
You're probably pretty tired by this point you do need to tackle this
but we're not far away
It's so peaceful here though
We call this one Indiana Jones Rock
And we're at the top!
Yay are you happy?
Yep he looks pretty happy to me
Actually at the top you can do exercise, you can do stretches
Just be careful of the monkeys like I said just don't bring any food up
In case you want to know what just happened
he grabbed onto my leg
I don't know why
And up here, this is Yazuo Pavilion
and up here they're making tea
and you can drink tea for free
Today is a beautiful day
Here's the view from the top
So on a day when there's not a lot of pollution
the view's actually really nice
sometimes you can't really see anything
but this is really beautiful.
And this little baby monkey's enjoying the sun
He's so cute
See they'll take your stuff
whatever you've got they'll take it
don't know what that is
okay let's go down
now we're gonna have breakfast
we're just gonna go north on
Gushan road about five minutes ride away
We're gonna have the best breakfast ever!
You know what else is cool about Taiwan
I was so busy videoing
that I left my keys in my scooter
and no one even stole it
Taiwanese people are awesome
Kuan Lai Shun breakfast restaurant
here's all the stuff you can have
and if you can't read Chinese
you're not going to understand
it which is why I'm going to show you pictures of what you should eat
there are two lines
the left one is for eating here
and the right one is for taking away
so you line up
and this lady who's pretty hilarious and quite fierce and
quite grumpy but overall awesome will take your order
I'm going to eat what I always eat
because it's the best
I'm going to eat a ham danbing
and I'm going to eat two meat buns
and I'm going to have nai cha,
I'm going to have milk tea
Because that's the best
and every time I change I feel regret that I didn't just eat my usual breakfast
The nai cha is the best
Yep, the milk tea is the best
and the meat buns are the best
What do you want?
I want a ham danbing and two meat buns
What do you want?
I want a ham danbing and two meat buns
danbing, two meat
Ham danbing
One cup of warm milk tea
Warm milk tea
(unintelligible Taiwanese)
(more Taiwanese)
yes it's a breakfast donut
it's a long breakfast donut
So good.
That's called a youtiao.
and they have some buns in here
but they're not as good as the meat buns
okay so that is a ham danbing
and that is a rou bao, a meat bun and it's the best
and this is the sauce
you just get it from the left of where you buy the food
and it's soy sauce with onions and chillies and it's really good
and we like to bite the meat bun open and put it inside and it's really really good
and this is radish cake
the radish cake is really good
and you can actually order it with scrambled eggs as well, together with scrambled eggs which is really yummy too.
Thank you
Thank you (in Taiwanese)
They are having soy milk soup and shaobing right?
Shaobing. Shaobing youtiao.
Oh youtiao. That's like savory, that soup
and then you can dip stuff in it and it's really good
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