Our time in Taipei has come to a close. It has been a fun 3 and a half days, filled with subways, trains, towers, food, and walking. Here are some highlights from the sites Quince and I saw while Richard was working.
While Richard worked with Robert, his wife, Jenny took Quince and I around the town sightseeing. Our first day of sightseeing started with a trip to the Taipei Zoo and Maokong region. Both are pretty cool places. I would have liked to see more of the zoo, however poor Quince just doesn’t handle the weather here well. We told him it was going to be hot, but that doesn’t explain how it feels.
Here he is about to take his first trip on the subway. He was a little confused as to why we were going underground, that went away when he saw it was a train.
Good thing we found a seat, he spent nearly the whole trip like this. Turning only to talk to one of us or check out the view from the other window. Only thing he was confused by is when the exit was on the opposite side of the train.
“Just like our turtles, mama”. After seeing some school children sit on the bronze turtles for photos, he decided he wanted to do that too. 🙂 We are inside the reptile & amphibian house.
He called it a cat, but I think it’s suppose to be a racoon. For whatever reason he wanted to sit on it and have a photo.
Nice hug for the penguins. They live inside an air conditioned building made to look like a giant iceberg from the outside. A huge change from the open air tank we normally see in Seattle at Woodland Park Zoo.
The top of Maokong! After an amazing gondola ride we arrived. Mao is the Chinese word for cat. While we have seen very few cats, this place had all sorts of cat images.
