Keelung City is called the "New York" of Taiwan because they have a miniature stature of the "Statue of Liberty" on top of one of their department stores (didn't get a picture) and text of KEELUNG as in Hollywood.
On top of the highest hill in the city there is a temple for good luck where people come, from here you can also see the KEELUNG sign which looks like the one there is in U.S.
Top of the hill
Up in the temple they had bears to ride on! Was pretty slow but they were playing billboard hits while "driving" them.
Last week there had been a huge accident with tanker that was split in half because of the strong Taifoon (and some finnish idiots go drive scooter in that kind of weather!) The tanker had split in half, one part was now on the shore but the other one had sunk to the bottom with it captain and 11 crew members. 2 members still lost somewhere, most likely sleeping with the fishes.
Taiwan is a volcanic island and was shaped by volcanoes thousands of years ago. That's why you can find amazing rock formation like this in north of Taiwan (just outside Taipei). Many of the stones actually look like something, just use your own imagination and make something out of them :)
Heartbroken?
Caveman mattress
Strange rock
Mushroom rocks
Because Keelung is next to the sea you can find all kinds of deep-sea animals. There are fish or all size, crabs, eels, huge snails and things I don't even know what they are (but would not wanna find out either). People here really eat anything that comes from the sea...
ANGRY crabs that had to be placed inside bottles or otherwise they would have killed each other
Huge snails, eels
Easy choice, just go for the lobster
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