Short Stay in Taipei, Taiwan
As I was staying in Taipei for just a few days, I only had time to see this beautiful city in a speed mode.
The first point was to get to Taipei, as I wasn’t staying in the city.
I took the HSR (High Speed Rail) from Changhua to Taipei. The whole journey was around 1 hour and 25 minutes, don’t remember precisely. Equipped with a big cup of iced tea, headphones and Spotify, I arrived to Taipei quite swiftly.
The whole infrastructure of the public transport is extremely efficient and there are no problems with getting around the city.
Thanks god there are lockers like this, where you can leave your stuff safely.
Here we go – that’s the inside of the Taipei 101. Simply saying, this is a huge skyscraper with plethora of luxury shops and amazing food hall, filled with fantastic restaurants and shops selling various pastries, sweets, cakes, fast food, souvenirs, gifts – you name it. I was really impressed by the size of it.
You can spend a whole day on wandering around this shopping mall, however my plan was to experience an amazing view from the observatory level, which is just one of the most popular attractions, when we talk about Taipei.
Sadly, when I arrived to the reception desk, there was an information about the visibility from the observatory deck – it was poor. Hence, I decided to forfeit my plan of getting there on that day, probably would be a waste of money.
The only rational decision was to head down to the...
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