Rumor has it that Taipei has 5 million scooters riding around every day. (By rumor, I mean, Cathy’s dad said that.)
This is the intersection right by the MRT station where we get off all the time. It’s on he ping east road. (和平東路)
Archive for October, 2007
Taiwan is filled with people. Everywhere. All the time.
We visited the morning market. Think of it as a night market, but in the morning, and with more groceries. It is called 菜市場. (The direct translation would be grocery / vegetable market).
If you think this is crazy, just wait till we post a video of the night market.
One of our favorite transportation in Taipei is the MRT (捷運). It’s an amazing skytrain system that works with a magical RFID card that tracks your trips and you can put more money on it as you wish. (you can also use the card in various parking lots and street parking). It’s called the easy card. We have spent $1000 NT (approximately $30+ CDN) in the last week. It is considerably cheap as we traveled all over Taipei every single day.
The video is taken in one of the bigger stations - Zhongxiao fuxing (忠孝復興). It’s where we switch from the MuZha line to the Banqiao (Banciao) /Nangang Line.
Okay- So!
We have been in Taipei, Taiwan for a week. It has been a blast. (for those of you who are geographically challenged, here is a map of Taiwan.)
We recorded a first “hello” video for people who might be missing us. (or people who we think should be missing us) You can see it at the end of this post.
We arrived in 28 degree and 80% humidity weather. It has cooled off since. We now enjoy the occasional refreshing breeze. (when it’s not pouring rain)
Places we visited: (and many more)
Taipei 101. Dan Shui (淡水) - The fisherman’s wharf, and the market, and Hong Mao Cheng (紅毛城). The Grand Hotel (圓山大飯店). Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall (國立國父紀念館).
When we find time/internet, we promise that we will introduce all these places in detail. (But don’t hold us to it.)
We have been enjoying very awesome food (cheap too!!), and we are now ninjas on public transit (N.O.P.T.). We even manage to find ourselves some free wireless internet places.
We also bought a GPS logger directly from the distributor here in Taiwan. (It ended up costing almost half of what it would’ve / should’ve cost in Vancouver). We are still having difficulties downloading the data into our prestigious (stubborn) Macs… But I am sure we’ll soon figure out a way to do so.
Many more pictures and videos to come. (We are struggling with the lack of internet at home and the slowness of free internet elsewhere.)
We’re still setting up our blogging & youtubing & GPS tracking- etc, but we’ll be up and running soon, for now we’re a little slow getting off the blocks…
So for now, cheers.
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