Blogs from Taipei, Taiwan, Asia - page 3

Dnesny den je brany len relaxacne. Ciel je Taipei Cinema Park. Najskor som chcel ist busom ale nakonec sa rozhodujem ist pesi. Ulickami sa dostavam az pred Yanping Riverside Park. Ha len k nemu sa neda len tak dostat. Okolo mesta /aspon tento usek pri vode/ je spravena hruba betonava stena. Na jednom mieste je posuvna masivna brana. Je tu znacka smer evakuacie. Zrejme ked sa blizi nebezpecie, brana sa hermeticky uzavrie a ludia su relativne v meste v bezpeci. Nuz nabrezie je tu uplne o nicom, len cesticky pre cyklistov, voda dost smrdi. Pod mostom rozlozeny bezdomovci. Stratu casu sem bola chodit. Pri cinema parku mi zacne blbnut fotak v mobile, vobec nejde, restart pomaha. Neskutovne teplo je vonku. Cinema park dalsia blbost, to opisovali ako neaku tovaren s kominom a grafitmi. Ano vsetko to ... read more

Pospal som si asi 3 hodinky. Medzi tym ma 2x zobudili security. Tu sa spat nemoze, ukaz mi boarding pass, musis ist do inej haly atd. Ale po kuknuti letenky sa ukludnili. Dalsia security prehliadka, tu uz kukali aj tekutiny. Inak pitna voda je pred branami tak zadny problem. Za security kontrolou chvilku cakania a nalozenie sa do lietadla, to nastasti nebolo plne a nakonec som nesedel v strede ale v ulicke. Na palube aj jeden beloch ale s dvoma malymi sikmymi detmi. Letusky /opat slabota/ nam rozdali arrivall cards, tu ma zarazila kolonka cislo viza ale nevyplnil som to. Let v pohode, taktiez pristatie. Po opusteny letedla som isol so stadom ludi, na pasovke cakacka asi 10.min. Keby doletime o par minut neskor tak odhadujem cakacku na dobru polhodinku. Po nas dosli asi dve lietadla. ... read more

Taipei-Taichung-Tainan-Taitung-Taipei!.Its starting to get confusing where we have been. Basically we have now completed a anti clockwise tour of the island and now back in Taipei. After the earthquake in Hualien we decided that unfortunately we would have to give this area miss and so we took the train straight up to Taipei. The route took us up the eastern rift valley which was probably the prettiest countryside we have seen all trip. The train did stop at Hualien and of course we did try to see the fallen down hotel but we didn't see anything. Actually we did see s lot of buildings that are still standing! According to the news the builder,architect and owners have all been arrested... So a few days spent exploring in and a round Taipei which is actually about 15C ... read more

Wed 7/2 Due to persistent precipitation we decided that today would be museum visiting, so thought we'd tackle the journey to the National Presidential palace museum. It looked quite a way on the map but half an hour after leaving the hotel we were there! The metro is Japanese efficient and super clean and easy and a 10mins bus ride, also easy to understand. We have a card similar to our Oyster card, so that simplifies things . The national palace museum is home to the largest collection of Chinese Artefacts. Unfortunately every tour group in the country had the same idea and sometimes we were completely swamped by Chinese/Korean/Japanese groups pushing their way through to keep up with their guides waving their flags and insisting on taking photographs of every item!! Usually by pushing through ... read more

No wonder they overnight us at the airport prior to our next day flight....it took us nearly one and half hours, 76klms from CBD. Flight left Narita, Tokyo at 3.40pm Thursday arrived Taipei 6.10pm good flight but plane banked around s couple of times could see typhoon out our window. Our tour guide met us and whisked us off into our hotel Green World...very nice and modern hotel. Had a bit of walk around area and had a pizza (now starting to crave for a western fix) and beers and hit the sack. Our group on this leg is 9...8 of us have been together since beginning. So its been 14 in South Korea, 23 in Japan and now 9 for Taiwan. Introduction to breaky in Taipei Fri am....lots of rice, sauces etc to eat with ... read more