Okinawa and Taipei - Day 8: Beitou Hot Springs

For today, we headed up north for the Beitou Hot Springs :).  But before that, we needed food, so we went to a famous beef noodle place to try it out.  Then had mango ice for desert down the street.

My first time to a hot spring that I can remember.  So I was pretty excited.  Original goal was to go the Grand View Resort (http://www.gvrb.com.tw/) as this one that supposedly had a private room with a view that you can soak in sulphur goodness.  There were quite a few hotels that had 'in house' hot spring tubs that you could check out for a couple hours, use, and then leave.  But alas, after walking up a bunch of switchbacks, apparently they were full :(.  So then we started walking back down and came across 春天酒店 Spring City Resort.  This turned out to be sorta like a spa thing, where for 800 NTD per person, it was a 'public bath' with 8 different types of baths. 

The notable baths were:

• One that was cold water with rose petals in it (this one didn't have sulphur in it - so wasn't hot spring water)
• One that was super hot, so it was super refreshing to jump in the cold water one after soaking in this one for a bit
• There was a section where it was just a hot slab - so worked as a nice butt warmer

There were also 'artificial' waterfall showers, and a few other pretty common ones - though all had sulphur in it. 

Easily spent a couple hours here …. Oh how I love just lounging and soaking around.  I swear my skin was mucho better after that!

The best part was, there was a free shuttle back to the station that runs every hour (and we just caught it)!

With a nice relaxing afternoon, the next stop was another night market, this time the 繞河 night market.  But before that, took up CS buddy's recommendation and tried out  度小月.  Super yummy noodles.

At the night market …. ate more :)

Summary of What was Eaten Today:

Lunch @ 永康牛肉麵

Total Spent: NTD 740

What we had:

  小菜 (pickled cucumber, pig ear)

  牛筋，牛肉面

  'muni' 牛肉面

  steamed spare ribs

Desert after Lunch @ 芒果雪花冰

Total Spent: NTD 370

What we had:

   Fruit shaved Ice

   Red and Green Bean Puffy Ice

   Mango smoothie

Dinner @ 度小月

Total Spent: NTD 880

What we had:

    3 Bowls of Noodle (we had one of each)

    Egg

    Meatball

    Small clam (Served Cold)

    Long yuan Pudding

    Slices of Goose

Night Market @ 繞河

Total Spend: NTD 150

  QQ Egg (NTD 25) - this was really yummy.

  Oolong honey tea (NTD 40) - loooove oolong bbtea

  Red bean bread (NTD 15)

  Grilled Corn on the Stick (NTD 70)

Total for the Day: 740 + 370 + 880 + 150 = NTD 2,140 = ~$71 USD