Taipei: Days 14-19

Men play a board game in the Raohe Street Night Market.


Snacks at Raohe Street Night Market.


A caged kitten awaits adoption in a pet store in the Raohe Street Night Market.


Trevor had to try his hand at another shooting game, this time at the Raohe Street Night Market (last time at the Shilin Night Market). He won a little more than a pencil this time around--he won an alligator keychain!


"No Discount. Thank You." in just about every language. In a store in the Raohe Street Night Market.


Game pieces in a store in the Raohe Street Night Market.


Trevor checking out the goods in a store in the Raohe Street Night Market.


"The More Beautiful as Night Come", a sculpture by Chao Ching Lin in the Raohe Street Night Market. Trevor took this well-angeled shot.


Guava for sale at Raohe Street Night Market.


Ciyou Temple at the end of Raohe Street.


A monk at Ciyou Temple let me take his picture. After showing him the picture in the camera's preview screen, he bowed.


Ciyou Temple is over 4 stories, all full of ornate carvings.


A pile of ghost money waiting to be burned at Ciyou Temple. The "money" is burned in little stoves around the temple to win the favor of various Gods.


Ciyou Temple lanterns and the rain.


Entering a prayer room in Ciyou Temple.


One of many of Ciyou Temple's decorated roofs.


This explosion of bags and boxes of clothing is actually the Wufenpu Wholesale Market near Raohe.


Crowding through Taipei Main Station.


Home to over 600,000 works of art, The National Palace Museum was originally founded in 1925 in the Forbidden City and later moved to the hinterlands of China (in prep for the Sino-Japanese War) before making its way to Taiwan during the civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists.


The view from the platform of Shilin Station.


A sawed-up apartment building (you can even see the stairway patterns) on the corner of Huanhe South Road and Chengdu Road.


Husky Cafe on Chengdu Road--with a real husky!


The Botanical Gardens in Taipei.


School children check out the scarecrow in the Botanical Gardens.


Happy dragon surrounded by his zodiac plants in the Botanical Gardens.


A giant lily pond with the National Museum of History in the background.




Cleaning the pond.


Taipei at night from the top of Taipei 101 tower.


Me checking out the coral art in the high-rise galleries of Taipei 101.


The "Super Big Wind Damper" (their words) inside the top of Taipei 101 tower. An engineering marvel.


Trevor on the throne at Modern Toilet, where toilet paper is used for napkins and food is served in toilet-shaped dishes.


Locked up chickens in Bitan, just south of Taipei.


Minding the shop on Xindian Road in Bitan.


Admiring the scenery on the suspension bridge in Bitan, known for its waterside dining and romantic paddle boats.