Taipei Sights
November 3, 2008 Posted by
Chris
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As I've mentioned several times in all of my posts about Taipei, this is a huge city. With that in mind, it's time to mention some of the many, many sights there are to see in this city. Most of the places we went to were right out of one of the travel books we brought with us, or Taipei city's own travel guide. They were all easily reached via the MRT subway or via Bus. If you plan to travel around Taipei using the Bus or MRT it is really recommended that you get an 'EASYCARD'. It's like a debit card for the transit system there.
The very first sight we saw was down at DanShui in Taipei. There's a bit of a fisherman's wharf and a bridge well known throughout all of Taiwan (Danshui Harbor Bridge). I think the easiest way to know if a bridge is famous or not is to see if someone is getting photographs in their wedding gown on the stairway. Well, we were lucky enough to catch that as you can see in one of the photo belows. A pretty young bride wearing a very pink & beautiful dress with her soon-to-be husband. The fisherman's wharf itself had some pretty good looking food and a nice long stretch to walk on (pretty slippery so look out) with great views of central Taipei and of course, Taipei 101 in the distance.
These few photographs are from the biggest night market in Taipei at Shilin. It lives up to it's name, it was pretty damn big. We didn't buy anything, but a random Airsoft gun store caught my eye. I still can't believe things like those are sold, they look so real! In the middle of the night market there was a Chinese play going on. I like the two photos of the 'tourist' shop. Seems like such a blatant Tourist Trap and yet they mostly only sold socks and other random stuff.
Taipei 101: It's Tall
The next sight we ran upon was another random bridge. I couldn't remember for the life of me where exactly it was located. I think it was right outside of the Shilin MRT station. There was a mini wharf and some rentable paddle boats. We didn't feel like going that far as there were plenty of other sights to see. So next to the Taipei 101 it was. From the MRT Taipei 101 station exit, you just take a (free) bus to the tower. It is HUGE! and there's a mall right next to it to complete the commercialization of it. Yes that's a new castle beer for NT$89 = USD$3. For ONE! Granted you can't get a New Castle pretty much anywhere else in Taiwan, still quite the rip off.
Posted: November 3, 2008 under Personal
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