Taiwan Photo Journal: Part 2
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Unwrapping my Chinese breakfast burrito. Inside is dried pork, Chinese donut, pickled radish, and covered with sticky rice.
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The National Performance Hall.
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Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial
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National Concert Hall
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Rob getting to know the locals.
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View from the Memorial.
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Changing of the guards (I think).
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Chiang Kai-Shek Statue
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Inside the museum. This ivory tablet has Sun Tzu’s The Art of War written in teeny tiny text above the image of his head. You need a magnifying glass to see it.
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Pictures of Chiang and his life story.
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Picture of him, Roosevelt, Churchill, and his wife.
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Wax apples, my favorite.
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A huge variety of tasty drinks. Rob already misses them.
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Inside Longshan Temple, the oldest temple of its kind in Taiwan. It survived earthquakes, typhoons, the Japanese occupation, etc. for over 100 years.
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People come here to light candles/incense and pray to Buddha and Taoist gods. Here is an altar for Guan-Yin, the Goddess of Mercy.
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Tons of people chanting.
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Beautiful artistry.
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Realistic litchee cluster carved out of stone.
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Chinese tea preparation at a Japanese-style teahouse.
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The tall cup is for sniffing the scent (kind like sniffing wine to get the aroma), and the short one’s for sipping/tasting.
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The koi in the koi pond right outside our private tea room. Some were enormous!
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At Yangmingshan National Park. Figuring out our hiking route.
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Meet spiders as big as your hand! If you have arachnophobia then I don’t suggest going to Yangmingshan.
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They don’t have actual trails. If you hike uphill, it’s actually climbing up countless slippery stairs.
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Coming down, we took a paved road and passed by a bunch of family gardens and fields.
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I <3 dragonflies that let us take their pictures.
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National Palace Museum in the distance. That’s where they display on rotation all the Chinese artifacts that the Nationalists brought over.
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I have only pictures of the outside because photography was not allowed inside.
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About to enter Shilin night market, arguably the best night market in Taiwan.
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Ba-wan: meat and bamboo-filled with a soft outer shell. These are delicious with their red sauce.
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Rob being a brave Westerner and trying stinky tofu.
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“Frog egg” drink. Which are actually basil seeds with an outer membrane.
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Delicious fried chicken as big as your head. I kid you not!
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Night market chaos.
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I found Hope in a water buffulo at the airport.
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