Taipei - Capital of ROC

Taiwan capital Taipei or 台北 in Chinese. Taiwan is the Republic of China while mainland is ruled by the communist party. Mainland China says that Taiwan is a part of China while Taiwan people strongly disagrees to this and sees their country and independent.

Taipei has a lot of influence from Japan since the Japs used to rule Taiwan long time ago, also it's more open and western than mainland China.

We went to some of the main attraction where you "have to go" when in Taipei. Peace Square, National Museum, Shi Lin night market, some temples and 101!

Peace Square

Views from the other side

Taipeis most famous hotel, wonder how much one night is...

Shilin night market

Blue chicken? Please tell me if you know why, was it strangled? :P

101 - Taipeis tallest building 509 meters. The building is also earthquake proof

Compared to some other biggies

The famous LOVE sign next to 101, art by a famous artist to be found in many countries at "attraction" places. There you go Shuo.

National museum

Checking out the treasures...

Also went to try the nightlife, when going into a club we failed the first time because everybody has to wear ID to get into the club. I'm not sure if it's because of age or something else. The second day we went out the kindly let us into the bar after showing passport. Entrance fee was around 15 Euros but it also included all the drinks in the bar.

Carneighs Bar - Same as in hong Kong

The ast day we went wondering around and found Taipei's biggest burgers! It was about 3 times as big as a Big Mac burger. Very local food...Had to split it, too big for one person

After eating and walking around we went to the train station and took the bullet train back to Kao Siung in the south of Taiwan where our flight flew back to Shanghai. The train-ride took about 2 hours and went 300km/h. Taiwan was awesome!

The bullet train, a lot like the one they have in China