Nankan, Taiwan - 24th July 2007
By: icitaiwan
"Ni hao" from Taiwan. I've arrived today in Nankan, a city in Taiwan. Taiwan is also known as Republic of China and Formosa.
It's really hot here and it was so hot and humid in my "travelbox". I really had to take a dive in the bathtub first. The cool water in the bathtub felt great, but sorry....no pictures from that (privacy, you know )
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Posted Jul 27, 2007, 9:58 am Last edited Aug 3, 2007, 6:04 am by icitaiwan
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Nankan, Taiwan - 25th July 2007
By: icitaiwan
I'm staying in Nankan with my host Andrea. She has an (almost) 3 years old daughter, Amber, who loves turtles.
Amber already has a little turtle and of course I had to say hello to the little one.
Amber didn't want to say good night to me when she went to bed, so I joined her. Lucky me, because her bed was very comfortable.
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Posted Jul 27, 2007, 10:03 am Last edited Jul 27, 2007, 10:22 am by icitaiwan
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Taipei, Taiwan - 29th July 2007
By: icitaiwan
I was so excited this morning, because Andrea told me that we would go to to Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan. Andrea lives in a city close to Taipei. It's only a 30-min drive to downtown Taipei.
We parked the car under Andrea's parents-in-law's house and walked to the MRT.
This is a picture of Zhongxiao East Road, one of the mainroads in Taipei. We took the MRT from there
This is me with the MRT and me with an MRT map. We took the train from Zhongxiao Fuhsing and got off at Ximen to take another MRT. We were on our way to the CKS Memorial Hall
It was fun to take the MRT. Andrea's digital camera stopped working, so she made these pictures with her mobile phone. The quality isn't that good all the time...
We got off at CKS Memorial Hall, a landmark in Taipei. It was built to honour the first president of Taiwan, Chiang-Kai Shek.
This is a picture of me and the whole complex
This is me at the main entrance
This is the National Theater. They are remodelling it at the moment
Andrea and Amber love this place and visit it often. They usually visit it to feed the fish at one of the ponds
This picture isn't very clear, but it's me with a fellow turtle. You can see its head above the surface
This is the real memorial hall. There is a bronze statue of Chiang-Kai Shek on top if the memorial hall, but it isn't open for public at the moment, because they are remodelling this hall, too.
The weather in Taipei wasn't very good this morning and we had to run after these pictures, because it started to thunderstorm and rain. Luckily it didn't last too long.
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Posted Jul 29, 2007, 12:01 pm Last edited Jul 29, 2007, 12:31 pm by icitaiwan
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Nankan, Taiwan - 29th July 2007
By: icitaiwan
Our next destination was the "Taipei City Hall" MRT station, because there's 1 building you can miss when you visit Taiwan....the "Taipei 101". The "101" was the tallest skyscraper in the world with its 508 meter. They are building a skyscraper in Dubai at the moment and that skyscraper reached the hight of 512 m. last week... .
Evidence... I've been there
There are a lot of shopping malls in this area, and "New York, New York" is one of them
Some more "101" pictures
This is a view inside the 101 mall, made from the 5th floor.
We didn't go to the top, because the admission fee is expensive, and it was a cloudy day...too bad. We did make this picture though.
There are 6-7 shopping malls in this area, all connected with each other. We made this picture while we crossed a road. Those yellow cars are all taxis
You can find shops of every famous designer here. Here I'm in front of the "Chanel", "Jill Sanders", "Boss", and "Gucci" shop.
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Posted Jul 29, 2007, 12:23 pm
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Nankan, Taiwan - 29th July 2007
By: icitaiwan
On the way back home we passed the "Grand Hotel". It's located along the highway, so the picture quality isn't great, because Andrea was driving and making a picture at the same time. The "Grand" is also a landmark.
I had a great day and a perfect seat, on top of Amber's babystroller, all day long
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Posted Jul 29, 2007, 12:26 pm
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Nankan, Taiwan - 7th August 2007
By: icitaiwan
HELP, HELP..... there is a typhoon coming!!!!!!!!!!!
I kept on singing "typhoon, typhoon, go away", on the rythm of "rain, rain, go away", and guess what it changed its direction and headed to the Phillipines instead..yahoooo!!
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Posted Aug 17, 2007, 3:36 pm
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Nankan, Taiwan - 17th August 2007
By: icitaiwan
I really have bad luck, because I'll experience the biggest typhoon in the last couple of years. Super typhoon Sepat is heading for Taiwan and will cross it within 24 hours.
Unfortunately my "typhoon, typhoon, go away" song didn't work this time.
Did you know that typhoons and hurricanes are the same. The only difference is that hurricanes can be found above the Atlantic Ocean, and typhones above the Pacific Ocean.
I'm scared mommy, but Andrea told me that she will take good care of me. That's why she didn't mail me to my next host in Singapore yet. She didn't want me to feel scared, wet, or been blown away by the powerful storm.
The sunsets are always beautiful before the arrival of a typhoon
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Posted Aug 17, 2007, 3:44 pm
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Bangkok, Thailand - 22nd August 2007
By: icitaiwan
Wow, I was so lucky, because Andrea decided that it was time for a short trip abroad. Her husband, David, had to fly to Amsterdam in the Netherlands for his work and he had to stay in Bangkok for a day. She decided to join him and today we left by plane to "Siam", or "Thailand". I was so excited and so was Amber .
Here we were waiting for our flight
And here I am in Bangkok. Andrea took this picture from the window of her hotelroom. We stayed at a beautiful hotel, the Imperial Queenspark Hotel. David always stays there, because it's the crew hotel for the airline he's working for and it's a great hotel.
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Posted Aug 27, 2007, 2:34 pm Last edited Aug 27, 2007, 2:50 pm by icitaiwan
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