Visitors! – After nearly 5 months in Kaohsiung, we were pleasantly surprised to have some visitors from Indianapolis! Doris and Brandon arrived first last year, followed by Ken and Linda during the holidays, then Huong and Giselle for the last 2 weeks in a sneaky surprise visit, and finally Nina and Dad are visiting today! We love seeing familiar faces after being here for so long and it definitely made the time spent here recently much more fun. Thank you also for bringing emergency supplies (sour cream and cheddar chips) and also taking some stuff home for us. Shedding as much of our belongings now will make the final few months of travel much easier.
Taipei – We hopped on the north bound high speed rail and within 2 hours we were in Taipei. Upon arriving, not much seemed different other than slightly cooler temperatures. The MRT system was a lot bigger than Kaohsiung, but it was very well laid out in a grid pattern across the city so it was very easy to get to any part of the city.
We got a small and cozy AirBnB with a nice view of Taipei 101 in Da’an district. Outside was a really cool breakfast place with the biggest steam bun cookers we’d ever seen!
The first place we went to was the Taipei zoo. It was really scenic – we were impressed. Only problem is the walking route goes straight up hill, so we were exhausted after we made it to the top…leaving very little energy to come back down!