I don’t have a lot to say about this, I just wanted to share some pictures from Taipei that don’t really belong anywhere else. Like usual, I wandered around, drank coffee, took pictures of lanterns, and tried snake blood. Oh yeah, I drank snake blood one night.
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The Huashan 1914 Creative park in Taipei was something I didn’t know about until we were on our way there. We happened to be in the neighborhood for who knows what and decided we should go.
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I kept telling everyone we need to go to Tamsui! They would then ask why and I would say, well I’m not actually sure. It was my last day in Taiwan and it was supposed to be hot and sunny. What better thing to do than go to the beach? This is where we came up with Tamsui. Apparently, there are a couple of beaches there so off we went.
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Yup. You read that right. A cat village. Just a short train ride from Taipei is Houtong Cat Village. It’s nestled up in the hills and like most days, it was rainy.
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Update 2023: Unfortunately the Ximending location of Modern Toilet was a victim of COVID and closed down. You can visit the Shilin location though. These pictures are all the Ximending location.
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Lanyu was hard to actually get lost on. I mean, there’s really only one road around the island with a couple smaller ones weaving through the villages dotted along the coast. I was more lost in my head. Still. Feeling way too sorry for my self. Still. I needed to get out of this funk and Lanyu, it turns out, was not the place to do that.
I can’t decide what to call this. I didn’t do a whole lot of anything in Taitung. I spent a lot of time wandering around and drinking coffee, but that’s not much of a surprise. It was cold and rainy most of my time there, but the last day was really nice.
I wandered through Tie Hua Music Village admiring the hundreds of lanterns then made my way down to the beach to watch the waves. I went to a bookstore to look at everything I couldn’t read and still avoided eating like the plague because it was intimidating.
Hualien was the first place that I was on my own in Taiwan and I was terrified. I was on what I was hoping the right train. Then I got off in what I hoped was Hualien. Then I walked what I hoped was the right direction to get to my hostel. Then I stood outside my hostel and hoped someone would let me in. Then I checked in and hoped I would meet people. That was the only thing that didn’t happen.
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The first stop on my tour around Taiwan was Sun Moon Lake and Wen Wu Temple. It was the Year of the Monkey (my year!) and this was evidenced by all the monkeys at the temple.
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One of the first stops on my tour around Taiwan was Sun Moon Lake and the Ci-en Pagoda (sometimes spelled Ci’en Pagoda). I had seen pictures of Sun Moon Lake (sometimes called Lalu Lake) but didn’t know anything about it (some things never change!)
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Sun Moon Lake was one of my favorite parts of Taiwan. Sure, it’s just a lake. But it’s a really pretty lake. And thinking about it now,I probably liked it so much because at this point I still wasn’t enjoying Taiwan all that much and it reminded me more of Slovenia than Taiwan.
At this point in my trip, only a few days in, I was part of a group. I was on a tour for five days to go around all of Taiwan. This was day two, yes, I skipped one for now, and we were in Kenting at the very southern tip of Taiwan.
Dihua Street is a market that is set up for Chinese New Year goodies and stuff. It’s also the first place I saw massages with butcher knives. Well, that’s new to me. And look at his face. He knows how weird it is, but he’s lovin’ it!
Aside from that, Dihua Street is awesome. It’s not quite like a regular night market, but it’s close. For the two weeks before Chinese New Year, it is bustling with people from allover, either shopping for New Year decorations and supplies or just to see the atmosphere.
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If you haven’t noticed the trend, I didn’t know tons about what I was going to do on this whole Asia trip. I knew general things, but nothing about them.
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