Day trip in Taipei

Today was quite a long day, but I have seen a lot of famous things in here, tasted a lot of new food and met some new people :-) Our day started on 9AM, when we have left our apartments. It was hoot since the morning, bud we kind of hadn't care, because there were so many new things to observe!

Our trip has begun with a long journey to LungshanTemple. It is a one of the city's busiest temple in Taipei. This temple is situated on a street corner near the center of the city. Sculptures of dragons feature prominently in this temple's design. This Temple is also popular for fortune-telling. On my view there were a lot of people praying with aromatic sticks, buying a gifts to the Gods or tying their luck. You can take oracle blocks, thank think of some question and drop them on the ground. When one is different than other, it means yes. Other variations are no. There is also another thing. You choose a stick with the number, take oracle blocks and pray for a better live or something else. Than you have to drop the oracle blocks and it has to say three times yes. After it you can pick up a paper with the meaning of your number. I was not so good. It has not fallen to me three times :-(

Lungshan Temple

A lot of people are coming here to pray

When you finish your prayer, you throw the sticks in to this

A lot of people are buying a gifts to the Gods

Oracle blocks and the stick with the number

 After exploring Xingtian Temple we went to the sweet shop for an ice-cream. It looks like very differently, because it is an ice, with topping of your choice. I have chosen mango, bubbles, sweat beans and some kind of jelly. But it was delicious! Later on we went to see, where is Taipei 101. It is soo big! We have made a few photos of it and decided to visit it sometimes during the night. We have taken also in Taipei 101 famous Taiwanese food - dumplings. It taste a little bit like a pasta with meal inside. But it is delicious :-)

Ice cream with mango, bubbles, sweat beans and jelly

Taipei 101

Dumplings with crab and vegetable and rice with sea food

Taipei 101 is big (509 m), but today the biggest building is Burg Dubai (800 m)

Later on our trip continued to Danshui. It is a place, where is a beautiful view of the mountain and the sea. It is a little bit like on a vacation, where you can walk among the sea and buy some stuff. There is so many things o eat! Most of them I have never seen before! I have tried Egg Tart. It was tasty. Taste like a pie with a pudding, which is made of eggs.
When the night came out, we went to the boat trip. It was great, a little bit dangerous, because the driver was driving so fast, but it was also an experience :-) We went to the town of Bali. There should lighten the bridge, but they had been repairing it until now.

Danshui

Sunset in Danshui

Markets in Danshui

Egg tart

Taiwan ship

Danshui in the night

Well this day was a full of new things and we went home on midnight. So my leg hurts, but my eyes are happy. Looking forward to tomorrow, because I'm going to meet a friend of my friend who has been in Czech Republic for a while :-)

There are other photos and videos:
From the Temple

Our group of trainees

Flower gift to the Gods

Oracle blocks

An example of the gift to the Gods

Trip to the Taipei 101

They have one special crossing in the middle of the crossroads

Lunch in Taipei 101

Rice with sea food, dumpling, green tea and ginger with soy sauce

With Cory from Inodnesia nad Weeny from Vietnam

With Kelley from Canada

Danshui

There was some exhibition of pumpkins - you can eat them later

Serious Kelley

Models of the World

Bridge on Bali