Taipei-longer

This time it was sunday afternoon walk-around. Two Croatians wandering around Taipei for 10 hours. Meeting a friend from that distant lands of tiny Europe here is quite surrealistic thing. We bathed it in decent amount of beer, sure. Behind us here is CKS Memorial, yes, it is BIG.

Inside Buddha-like smile of CKS. Remembers a bit all the similar Founding Fathers. After the great pre-cursor of similar cults, Kemal Ataturk, anything new in the world of Fathers of the Nation(s).

Dragon made of plastic bottles, impressive work!

Ordinary small street of Taipei, just behind Roosevelt Road.

For Europeans: this is how bamboo grows

Among other shops you can find this one also

After this we needed beer, so after a bit of search we found some place with quite decent esspresso and some beer (from tin-can but good...and cold). Choice of drinks attracted my attention, Polish people will know why... :-) (this is NOT a Polish votka, it is rather spirit used for cleaning!, not strange they could think Polish people a bit strange)

Here is the entrance to the TAIDA campus, NTU (National Taiwan University), where also my host institution ASIAA is located. In the background you can see the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101, half a kilometer (508m) high tower. It is equipped in 800 tons spherical rotating balance near the top, to prevent 'surprises' from quite often earthquakes. It is impressive.

One pic remembering where I am: in the Longtan town, between Hsinchu and Taipei, this playground says everything, I think.

They could need praying-and there is plenty of such places in the cities:

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