Weekend in Jiu-Fen 九份

Wow, two posts in one month! Nat and I went to a place called Jiou-Fen 九份 this past weekend, which is in Taipei County near the northern tip of the Taiwan coast line.  Jiou-Fen is located within the Rueifang township 瑞芳鎮 which you take a high-speed train to from the Taipei MRT for about $2.  This area was very well known in the 20th century as a gold/mining town and was once occupied by the Japanese (that’s why there are Japanese style houses/museums in the area); people also used to refer to it as “Little Shanghai” due to the similarities.  The highlight of the visit was definitely the amazing views, and the pictures don’t really do them justice, but you can at least get an idea of what we saw – they were the best we have seen so far in Taiwan. Also, within In Jiou-Fen, we visited the Gold Ecological Park where there was the world’s largest man-made gold bar, which was 220 kg and .999 pure gold… and you can touch it.  You can see all our great pictures HERE along with my comments.  I’ll be writing again soon, we miss you all back home very much!

ps. we’re planning on going somewhere else special this weekend for my birthday, so expect some more pics soon.