I was so excited today, because I've been to Taipei. My host lives in a city close to Taipei, so I didn't have a change before to go see the "big city".
We left home by car and parked the car under the house of andrea's parents-in-law in "Chung-Hsiao East Road". This is one of the mainroads in Taipei City, and it's usually very crowded there.
The little girl is Amber, Andrea's daughter. She didn't want to give me back to her mother, so she took care of me all day long. I even took a nap with her .
We walked a while and took the MRT from "Chung-Hsiao Fuxing" to the "Taipei City Hall". Can you find these stops on the MRT map?
We left the MRT station and I saw a very large tower. Andrea told me that it's the "Taipei 101". It's the highest skyscraper in the world with its 509 meter.
Here is some more information about the "Taipei 101":
-Taipei 101 has 101 stories above ground (hence the name) and five underground.
-The building holds the records for:
*Ground to structural top: 509 m (1,671 ft), a record formerly held by the Petronas Twin Towers at 452 m (1,483 ft)
*Ground to roof: 449 m (1,474 ft). Formerly held by the Sears Tower 442 m (1,451 ft)
*Ground to highest occupied floor: 439 m (1,441 ft). Formerly held by the Sears Tower
*Fastest Ascending Elevator speed: 16.83 m/s (37.5 miles/hour or 60.4 km/h)
*Largest Count-Down Clock on New Year's Eve.
*It does not hold the record for the longest distance from ground to pinnacle, which is still held by the Sears Tower 527 m (1,729 ft).
-Taipei 101's roof was completed on July 1, 2003.
-Taipei 101 is the first and currently only building in the world to break the half-kilometer mark in height.[2] The Burj Dubai tower in Dubai is expected to take over as the the world's tallest building sometime in 2009.
This is the lower part of the "Taipei 101". There is a nice shoppingmall at the first 5 floors.
The entrance door
They've made a circle on the floor, and a lot of city names are mention on the tiles
Yes...it's me in Taipei.
This picture shows the 4th floor
You can take the elevator to go to the observatory deck on the 89th floor. The weather wasn't very good today, so my host decided to save the money for the admission fee for a frappuchino at the Starbucks .
Theses pictures show the area around the Taipei 101. They aren't very clear, sorry for that.
We walked around in the area, also called the "new city heart" with all the shopping malls, government buildings, and of course the "101".
The Taipei World Trade Center
The weather got worse, and the "101" disappeared in the clouds. We were just on time to make the pictures.
The Taipei City Hall I
The Taipei City Hall II
Taipei City Council office
We walked from here to the "Sun Yat-Sen" Memorial Hall. This is a memorial to the Taiwanese father of the nation, Sun Yat-Sen. It was built in 1972.
We kept on walking and passed a mailbox. Most of the Taiwanese mail disappears in these kind of mailboxes.
We also passed this shopping mall. Sogo is very famous in Taiwan
After that we went back home. It was a great, but tiring day .