Our first night in Taiwan, looking off the balcony of our hostel to the distant mountains (which you can't really see). It was a pretty nice hostel!
The rather magnificent Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall. It's now a theatre.
The amazing view of Taipei 101 and the city from the top of Elephant Mountain, at the end of a ludicrously long staircase.
Panda selfie! There is a panda bear in the background there. We also saw another one at this zoo which actually moved! Which was quite a surprise.
We are now in Hualien, which was a lot bigger than we expected. So this day we just explored our nearby area, and this gigantic pagoda was the most interesting part of it. It did have a nice garden attached to it though, and an excellent Indian restaurant.
This is the real reason we went to Hualien, home of the Taroko Gorge. Which, as you can see, is awesome.
On a high-speed train! Very exciting stuff. If you're into trains. It's actually quite unremarkable from the inside. Goes real quick though.
The Anping Tree House in Tainan, former capital of Taiwan. Terrible photo but cool place. It's not a treehouse, as I thought, but in fact a building completely overgrown with banyan trees so it now looks like it's made out of them. Very peaceful and pleasant place.
We went cycling again! It was fun, and allowed us to visit the beach and some tourist attractions. So efficient.
...And one of the things we saw was this ridiculously ginormous gun!
Our last day in Taiwan saw us high-speed training back to Taipei, then taking a cruise round one of it's many, many night markets. Super cheap and tasty way to get dinner, provided you like meat on a stick.
And finally here is me earlier today with my new buddy Iron Man, who was for some reason hanging out in Taipei airport.
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