| In Taipei there are MANY scooters...
it is like in China with the bikes |
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| Yes! There is an IKEA too :)
... and the books on the shelves are in Swedish, as everywhere else! |
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| Jungle-like trees in the middle of Taipei |
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| This is Taipei
101 |
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| The view from a fancy restaurant, center of Taipei, close to
the Sogo
department store |
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| Some images of the metro
They have a lot of malls underground, so you can walk most of the
center and come up directly inside other surface malls, like the
Mitsukoshi ( http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=122278
)
The average height is quite low in Taipei, if compared to the north of
Europe. To show this idea I took a picture from "my" point of
view, in the underground train |
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| The famous bronze bell from the Jeeg series
(?) |
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| In the Mitsukoshi dept. store they have girls like this in
each elevator. They spend their time asking to customers if the want to go
up or down and they operate the elevator. They also have the same strange
costume (japanese, it seems) and they all tend to have the same kind of
child-like, ecchi voice
It must be a very boring job |
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| A food court - different food shops and restaurants
face a common space (indoor) and customers can buy whatever they like and
sit in at one of the common tables. |
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| This is ice tea with cream on top. It costs something like
40 Taiwan Dollars (circa 1 euro)
My hand is there to show the real size ;) |
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| And of course: it is the anniversary
of Hello Kitty after all!
But also the robots (and Doraemon) are everywhere!! |
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| A few images of the many temples in Taipei |
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| Many sizes of Gundam at the Bandai shop :) |
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| Panoramic view of the city center |
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| A trip in the north of Taipei, to the national
palace museum |
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| In the warm and wet weather of Taipei, we were happy to
sometimes find water-machines like this one. Paper glasses are also
visible, on the right, in the dispenser on the wall...
And the water comes nice and cold!
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| Cyberpunk contrast ;) |
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| Chiang Kai Shek memorial - It is a monument to the president
that moved the government of China to Taiwan, in a final attempt to resist
to the comunists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek)
The monument is huge and placed in the center of Taipei |
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| A view of the palace of the government |
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| Downtown at night (after 18:00 it is usually dark) |
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| The pedestrian area close to our hotel |
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