Monday, May 17, 2010

Taipei 2010 - Day 5

Day 5 - Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall (国父纪念堂)
The final day is a very short one because I have to leave Taipei by noon back to Malaysia. Hence, met up with Justin (who is currently working there) for breakfast, chit chat and some loitering around.
I had pretty high expectation before coming to this memorial hall, hoping to find something really interesting here but hmmm.....nothing interesting though. This pic is out of focus but I quite like it though
The end! That is the end of my 5 days in Taipei. Overall, not too bad but I prefer other cities than Taipei :). Taipei is slightly messy as compared to Hong Kong. We lost our way from our hotel to Ximending because of the lack of clear roadsigns. Shops in Taipei generally opens at 11am and closes 9.30 or 10pm! I expected Taipei to be a city that never sleeps but I was wrong. Perhaps I went to the wrong place! I got bored of having breakfast there because everything is basically the same, what ever biscuits 葱油饼,捉葱饼,蛋饼,煎饼etc....they are all the same with different fillings. It is like roti canai, roti telur, roti sardine etc.........

Apart from the breakfast, the snacks are quite tasty in general. Price is reasonable too. MRT and public transport can be better (but it is better than what I have here!). Pretty girls are everywhere too, they really know-how-to-dress!

There are still room for improvements for making their tourist attraction places better! For example, having better english translator and having more english signs etc. I was very disappointed with the National Palace Museum! It is like a showroom to showcase the old artifacts used during the ancient time in China. Not much explanation nor story in it. So it was pretty boring for me.

Shopping wise, it was so-so......The best part of the trip was the Hot Spring! Super super super relaxing!

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