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Travel stories and photos from Taipei, Taiwan. 53 posts.
#Taipei #Kaohsiung Someone once asked me to talk about food. As it turned out, in Taiwan, I mostly indulged in Japanese and hotpot. Everything here is cooked excellently, especially the ramen. And with hotpot, you can eat as much meat as you want for around…
#Taipei #Review In conclusion of the series of posts about Taipei This time, I only came for a week, as I wanted to maximize my Asian trip and see only the most interesting things. And... this time I enjoyed it even more! Firstly, I stopped viewing Taipei…
#Taipei Or maybe someone needs a peanut block?)
#Taipei Finally... Taiwanese cranberry juice!
#Taipei A bit more about hot springs from my personal experience - Unlike Japanese onsen, in Taiwan, people often bathe in their clothes. I think most people find this more comfortable, so it's a plus to try bathing here if you didn't get the chance in…
#Taipei To the north of Taipei lies the "Sulfur Valley". Magmatic activity beneath the island heats up underground water, which comes to the surface as steam, simultaneously absorbing sulfur deposits in the rock. In some places, such steam can be poisonous…
#Taipei Taipei-101 photographed from Elephant Mountain at sunset🤌 It's ideal to come here at 4 in the afternoon, then you'll just catch the sunset while climbing to the top.
#Taipei At some metro stations, doors like these are installed. Out of my Moscow naivety, I thought they were bomb shelters. But no, they're for flood protection. The strongest typhoon to hit Taipei in 2001 brought with it 70(!) cm of water. The metro was…
#Taipei Taiwan is famous for its excellent tea. But where can you try it and get a good deal? You can try to find it in the city, but the most memorable option for any tourist is to head to the tea plantations south of the city. A lift for 100 local TWD…
#Taipei Despite the towering high-rises on the horizon, Tamsui is a rather old district that has long served as an intermediate point for the delivery of maritime cargo by river to Taipei. The place was also attractive to the colonists, as evidenced by the…
#Taipei The Tamsui district waterfront, with a view of the city's new districts and the industrial port. Another place that foreign tourists hardly ever visit.
#Taipei If you're in Jioufen Village, try not just to stroll down the streets crowded with tourists, but also to go a bit further - a few kilometers from the center, you can climb a mountain, from which beautiful views of the entire northern part of the…
#Taipei ... But it's still aesthetically pleasing in some places!
Poor Taipei.
#Taipei I can't find Dihua Street itself, but from the colorized photos, you can get a sense of what the central areas of the city looked like. Colonial Taipei, early 20th century
#Taipei Dihua Shopping Street, one of the oldest in Taipei, dating back to the Japanese colonial era. The bricks and stones clearly reveal its antiquity, although they have been renovated in recent years. Near one of the temples, a cat is resting. It does…
#Taipei One of the most beautiful temples in Taipei, which not many people know about - Guandu Temple. It's located to the north of the city. You can get off the metro and walk there, or, like we did, ride a bike. The temple is situated on a cliff, with…
#Taipei Guandu Temple👇
#Taipei They build churches here in such a way that they can survive the Second Coming))
#Taipei And here's the Taiwanese President's Office. Brick and white stone - classic materials from the era of the Japanese colonial rule of the island. You can't just walk in! There are guards at the entrance, and in front of them, there are also police…
#Taipei If you see a huge building with clearly European architecture somewhere in faraway Asia... Know that it's always a courthouse😁
#Taipei I got distracted by Seoul, but now I'm back to posting about Taipei again😊 While scrolling through my gallery, I realized once again how many cool little shops there are in Taipei. Starting from markets where they sell all kinds of quirky stuff…
#Taipei An imposter has been spotted! Someone joked that the local E-Center had already dispatched a squad to deal with the guy, but no, there's no law in Taiwan that prohibits displaying PRC symbols (in China itself, you could easily end up in jail for…
The thought that formed in my head today is that #Taipei (and Taiwan in general) is not very tourist-friendly from a foreigner's perspective. Here, no one holds your hand on a tour, translates into English, or skims over overpricing in restaurants. Yet there…
#Taipei It would seem like it's on the other side of the world. But somehow, it pops up unexpectedly. I always end up laughing at this!
#Taipei Moments on the verge of reality and fantasy.
#Taipei A year later, we're back in Jioufen, the village forever filled with tourists, red lanterns, shopping streets, and tea houses.
#Taipei It's like something out of a scene from Ghost in the Shell. People really live like this!
#Taipei Residential streets of the central district of Ximen.
A tour of our house in #Taipei. The price tag on Airbnb is $120/day. Ximen district.
On the way to #Taipei. Views of New Taipei District (not new at all 😁)
#Taipei I finally made it here! When you have a gold card, the border check goes really smoothly. There's an electronic gate without a border officer, and the voice guidance even switches to Russian 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 when you scan your passport.
#Review In conclusion, about Taiwan, and #Taipei in particular I spent over two weeks in Taiwan, most of which was in Taipei. In addition to purely tourist interest, I wanted to understand what it's like to live here and whether it suits me. After all, I…
#Taipei Despite all this, the roads in Taipei are very good. It's as if they were imported from Japan. Unfortunately, sidewalks are still not everywhere, which is of course a shame. And even where they are, it's not uncommon to find some old man setting up…
#Taipei The main downside of Taipei is its poor urban development. On the internet, they say that this is "how it historically developed", claiming that Taiwan was a poor country 40 years ago, and the goal of urban development was primarily to provide…
#Taipei #Taichung Returning to the topic of Taiwan, which I'm systematically trying to cover in depth Some of the most memorable places in both Taipei and Taichung are the historic buildings left over from the Japanese colonial era. They're often not very…
#Taipei At the end of our visit to Jioufen, we went to an awesome Chinese tea house where I managed to randomly choose an equally awesome oolong tea. Here, like in any normal place, the boiling water is unlimited, but it's constantly heated directly in the…
#Taipei On the weekend, we still managed to visit Jioufen Village! This is a very popular tourist spot northeast of Taipei, famous for its abundance of Chinese lanterns and tea houses. To top it all off, there's a night market with lots of food, souvenirs,…
#Taipei Today, we visited these big rodents and fed them a lot of grass 💪 If you ever visit Taipei, be sure to check out this cafe in the south: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MMBWmZgbNiY8YDpT9
#Taipei And at the end of our route, we were unexpectedly greeted by hot springs! Although the water is murky and has a peculiar smell, it's not dangerous at all. You can warm your feet or even take a bath in a natural hot tub at +50°C! 🫠
#Taipei Photos from today's hiking! To the north of the city, there's a national park that can be reached in just an hour or an hour and a half. There used to be volcanoes here, but now only sulfur geysers remain, emitting a distinctive aroma of boiled…
#Taipei I found the legendary "Gin Grapefruit" in 7-Eleven. Not all questions in this life have answers.
#Taipei Biking north of the city! Although Taipei doesn't have a great cycling infrastructure, the city is trying to encourage people to use bicycles. Renting them here is quite easy - there are bike parking stations in every district for a mere 30NTD (1…
#Taipei I'll add a bit more about the gold card, I think it'll be useful, or at least interesting. In its current form, this isn't a full-fledged permanent residence permit. With this card, I can enter the country and stay here as long as I want, but there…
#Taipei The Shilin District. So far, the most beautiful district in Taipei that I've visited. The district is surrounded on one side by a river, along which there's a fantastic promenade, and on the other side by mountains, where a national park begins.…
#Taipei The immigration office finally opened after the New Year, and I was able to pick up my residence permit 🇹🇼! Now I'll have a place to return to for the next 3 years!)
#Taipei You're strolling around Taipei... And suddenly, there's a temple in the courtyard. And on the map, such a beautiful place is marked with a very modest icon!
#Taipei The narrow alleys of Taipei
#Taipei The Dihua shopping street in this regard is not lagging behind! And that's not even mentioning the night market yet!)
#Taipei Is it the post-New Year's week, or do Taiwanese people not work at all?)) There's been such a hustle and bustle in the Ximen area for the third day in a row. It's considered one of the most lively areas on weekdays.
#Taipei And somewhere, it's already the first February sakura) This is the effect of the miraculous +25 degrees in the subtropics!
#Taipei Today's mini-hiking with a climb to the nearest mountains (with a modest peak of 370 meters, but it's enough to view the city from a height). On the first part of the route, there are plenty of tourists, but only a small portion climb higher than 100…
#Taipei And yesterday, we drove to the hero city of Taipei 🇹🇼! This is probably the most brutalist city I've had the chance to visit. So far, all I can associate it with is Seoul mixed with Bangkok. The city is located on a plain and is built in a block…