We visited Taipei last week (Jan 23-26) and had a pretty good time. We both enjoyed getting out of the cold winter weather. It wasn't always hot in Taipei, but there wasn't any snow and that was a bonus for us both.
We stayed at the Fushin Hotel. The brochure said it was a business hotel. It was comfortable and quiet. We had breakfast included too. It was next to a huge hospital with a shopping area and a food court.
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| Fushin Hotel |
On our first night we visited the Taipei 101 Tower. Most of my pictures of the outside didn't look that great, so I'm saving you from them. This is inside the building. They have a large damper to stop the building from moving, and they have the model version up for picture-taking. Here's F with Damper Baby!
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| Damper Baby |
Our second day, we took a tour of the sights of Taipei. It wasn't a bad deal, and we were lucky enough to have the tour to ourselves as another group cancelled!
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| Chiang Kai-Shek's Memorial Hall |
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| The roof of the building |
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| Chiang Kai-Shek |
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| Martyr's Shrine - columns |
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| The Martyr's Shrine |
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Changing of the Guard
Martyr's Shrine |
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| Temple, not sure where! |
On the tour, we also visited the National Palace Museum, but there were a lot of people and the guide just showed us things that he wanted to show us, not things that we might be interested in. I'd go back, but only if I could go by myself. (Or with F!)
We went to the Night Market by ourselves, but it was too early. We got bored and left, went downtown and had a lovely French meal in a Japanese department store.
On Friday, our last day, we headed up to Tamsui, the north part of Taipei. It's a fishing area. F wanted to see it, so off we went. We got off the bus a tad early, but it worked out well. We ended up in quite a historic area and had afternoon tea.
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| At Tamsui, near The Little White House and the tea shop |
After walking around and finding the Foreigners' and the MacKay Family cemeteries, we left the area.
We walked back to the coastal area and each had lunch. Although we were together, we didn't eat in the same places. I chose a nice cafe and had a pork hot pot that was yummy. We were given some side dishes too, and enjoyed them. F chose to go to a grotty little noodle shop and had noodles that he didn't like too much.
We walked along the shore for quite a long time. We were looking for a ferry dock, but never actually found it. Instead we took pictures along the way and then took a bus back to the MRT station.
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| Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf Area |
We took a train back towards our hotel, but got off at the Night Market area again but this time had a good snoop around. We ended up back at the hotel in a bit of a huff at each other as F didn't think it was important to have a proper meal and I did.
So there you are, a small selection of the photos I took in Taiwan. I really should have taken more!
You can see that F didn't lose his scarf until he came back to Japan. Sob!
6 comments:
What wonderful sunny skies! Must be nice to get out of the snow for awhile. I love wandering Night Markets all over the world. Did you get to bring back any cool souvenirs or omiyage?
Hi Rosa,
Actually, only the second day was sunny! When we arrived it was cloudy and on the Friday it was cloudy too. We didn't have any rain though.
It was lovely to get out of the snow. My poor husband has to shovel snow at work and he really needed the break.
I liked the Night Market, but didn't do much shopping there. I bought a few postcards that I'll probably keep. I wanted to get some souvenirs, but a lot of the stuff on offer wasn't stuff that I'd need or use. And, I don't think I could bring back fruit or some of the foods. My feet were quite sore by that point, so didn't want to walk around as much as I should have!
Thanks for visiting :-)
Looks like you had a great trip! The temple with the big apartment building behind it is really nice.
It was a nice temple. We were allowed to walk through it too. Apparently they were starting to gear up for Chinese New Year, so there were lots of things available to buy, including paper money!
I hope tro-posting is OK~! First time I've seen these, and I usually keep up with your blog. It was also funny to read about F losing his scarf when you'd recently posted about knitting him the new one with loops :)
Yeah, no worries!
Yep, I can't remember if this is the first or the second version I crocheted for him. He wanted them both made out of the same kind of yarn, exact same colour too, so after all these years it is hard to remember! Probably the first one...
I'll probably post a picture of the new one when I get it finished.
Thanks for visiting!
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