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Published: October 8th 2008
Hey everyone today was my second day in Taipei, i went to the Longshan Temple which was utterly amazing! The courtyard before you enter the temple has an awesome waterfall on one side and a spectacular fountain on the other side, the building itself was probably one of the most beautiful things i have seen (so far) every bit of it is covered in carvings and statues, inside there is smoke bellowing from incense scattered around the place and offerings of food, sweets and magnolias to Buddha and the 165 or so deities that are worshipped here including Guanyin (goddess of mercy) who is the central Deity worshipped here who also is the deity for safe travel so i payed my respects with an offering of wine gums!!!! which happened to be the only thing i could find in my bag lol on the way out there are monks selling prayer bead necklaces and bracelets and across the street there is an underground market selling all sorts of religious items & trinkets. I then caught the MRT (Taipei's underground rail which is brilliant-you never seem to have to wait more than 2 mins for a train) to Taipei 101 the tallest
(completed) building in the world (an Arabian prince is in the process of building a taller building). Taipei 101 is as you can guess HUGE(508m)!!!!! Not only is it the tallest building but it also has the fastest elevator in the world (1010m a min) which take you from ground level to the 89th floor in 40 seconds! which makes your ears pop and you get out feeling quite unbalanced lol but its worth it for the view which is amazing you can see for miles, just before i was about to leave someone who worked there asked if i wanted to go to the outdoor observation deck on the 91st floor! although very windy as you'd expect, the view was even better then below, i also got a really cheesy pic done where they take your photo & edit it so it looks like your grabbing the building lol, I'm planning on going to Taipei zoo and shillin night market tomorrow (weather permitting) so ill post another blog then. Take care everyone
Alex
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