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Since not all of my days were filled with trips I had some “free” days. I mainly went shopping these days but also went to cinema and took the Mao-Kong Gondola. For all foreigners I can recommend the viewshow cinemas (close to 101). Their automatic ticket machine is easy usable since it has English interface. However you will need to pay buy credit card. Otherwise there is the C.K.S. Memorial Hall which is famous and one for Sun Yat Sen. Furthermore there is another small building for S.Y.S. which is close to Taipei Main Station which I think is even more worth visiting. Bitan is also worth a trip; currently they are rearranging the border to the river.

Famous 101 (i ling i) tower

View from pedestrian bridge (101 area)

Inside 101

The “other” S.Y.S. Memorial Hall

Inside and outside of the building

C.K.S. Memoriall hall and the gate in front of the hall

Bitan

Today it was cleaning time… Somehow my younger sister suggested me yesterday to rearrange our room and to move our tables little bit around. I agreed to help her since I thought that is was not a bad idea. We started cleaning our messy table where everybody put things on it, later on we switched the sofa with my table. A very nice idea from my sister. So now I have a computer table and a working table, finally I have enough space to do my homework properly so there won’t be any excuse anymore for not doing my homework

We finished at 17.30, so quite a big challenge just for this kind of small room but I was happy we did it. Now we just need to buy a shelf to be able to put on all the files lying on the floor right now. So next week we will go and buy it.

After going to the north east coast and celebrating my birthday it was my first trip doing alone here in Taiwan. I went to the yangminshan national park with an organised tour bus with an English coach. In the same trip I went to hot spring. It was my first time being in a hot spring. It was a traditional Japanese style hot spring, so everyone goes there naked. Of course the baths for men and women are separated. There are no pictures of this one, understandable somehow ;-).

Later on I walked around the shin kong life tower and discovered the peace park. Quite nice there for a walk. There is also a museum close to but I forgot which one.

Yangminshan flower clock

Unknown mseum

Peace Park

So after arriving here in Taiwan and still a missing lugguage I went to the north east coast. My girlfriends cousin picked us up at her home and we drove to the coastline. Altough the view is excellent there, not many houses were to see around there, I felt pretty amazed. In Switzerland this area would be crowded of houses. However it’s maybe better like this so the view remains and nobody is bothered when you walk around the coast. This spot is famous for it’s special rocky coastline.

Later on we went to a sand beach little further south to this rocky coastline. My fist time to go to a real sand beach and swim in the sea. The water was warm, warmer than expected, in exchange the sand was hotter as well. Fortunately we bought flip flops before and we also needed to buy bath costumes since we didn’t took any with us. Since this things are cheap here, there it was no big deal.

After this cool down we went to see some kind of small waterfall. The water and the stones are brown but not because of pollution, it’s due to the high concentrate of cooper there. I was told that before there was a cooper refinery there.

So now I need to go home again, after a wonderful 3 weeks holiday. Now I am sitting here at the airport, in front a cake nr. 76, which is already gone, and sweet nr. 110, which is being eaten at the moment. I shouldn’t forget to mention the chocolate milk, which is also present here on my lonely table. And all this for just 130 TWD, so little more than CHF 4.–. Taiwan is really a great country and once more I was surprised about how different it can be here between north, middle and south Taiwan. It’s really amazing.

But now it’s time to go home, back home to Switzerland, to earn money so that I can come back to Taiwan soon. Time will pass fast, that’s for sure, dealing with the customers and start school again in one week, it will be challenging again, so there let’s be ready for the challenge.

Cake 76 on the left, 110 on the right and chocolate milk behind.