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As my mother arrived in Taiwan, we kicked it off with a few days in Taipei (check out the super detailed Taipei visit itinerary on Taiwanderful, professional, eh?). We spent the first day visiting National Palace Museum and catching a cultural show at Taipei Eye. After opening the second day with Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Story House and the Bao-An & Confucius temples, we headed down east to the busy commercial district of Taipei.
We took the MRT down to Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall…
Made sure that the old man was still sitting down in his chair, watched over by over dressed puppet guards…
Admired the space…
And set way for the final goal and ultimate tourist attraction… Taipei 101.
On the way, we walked through Warner Village that was crowded with Christmas spirit and street shows.
I’ve written about Taipei 101 quite a few times before, and even exchanged some thoughts about the 101 with a local Taiwanese. This time, something was a bit different as the exit wasn’t at the same floor but on the level before where a new expensive shop was set up for the exiting tourists. Strangely, going up the open roof was free this time.
On the way down we received yet another dosage of Christmas spirit from a local choir.
Floor B1 of the Taipei 101 shopping mall hosts one of the largest food courts I’ve seen anywhere in the world, and my mother got to have her first ever veggie cook-it-yourself hotpot slowly mastering the art of using chopsticks. Oh, the excitement! the fun! there’s nothing like these small discoveries in life…
Elazizli | February 2nd, 2009 at 10:57 am #
I’ve always wanted to visit Taiwan. Seems like a really happening place. I still have to get my visa though.
Nitzan | May 23rd, 2009 at 3:17 pm #
When i visit Sun Yat Sen memorial hall i thought i am in Tian An Men square in Beijing.
for Taipei 101 i went to see but i did not climbed it is too expensive.
Fili | May 23rd, 2009 at 4:32 pm #
Nitzan – You spent all that time, money and energy to go to the Taipei 101 area but you didn’t spend the 400NT$ (40 shekels) to go up one of Taiwan’s national symbols of pride? that’s really too bad. I’ve been up there 4 times already, on different occasions with different people and it was always a very pleasant experience.
If you ever get the chance – go up there. Like most things in Taiwan – I believe it’s fairly priced for the touristic experience, much lower than many other world attractions (London Eye, for example, is around 17GBP ~ 900NT$).