Friday, May 15, 2015

Taiwan 2015 Part 3

Get served.
Green line, easy.
Like Japan, Taiwan's subway system puts anything in the US to absolute shame. For ~ 16-20NT ($ 0.50 to $ 0.75), you can ride most places.

We decided to grab a bite at SOGO department store near Zhongxiao Fuxing. There's two buildings. One of them has mostly Japanese food, with the exception of Din Tai Fung ..
SOGO is all high-end luxury stores.

Tour Bu

After lunch, we hit up two temples. This was the first one. I do not remember the name, unfortunately.

35mm prime is not so good for wide shots ..

But I've come to love it.

Especially for portraits, and detail shots like this of the dragon detail.

The Fuji's camera remote app that allows seamless WIFI image browsing and importing to any phone is great. Well done, Fuji.

All smiles, all peace.

Details.

Wish I got a better pic of this. Such a cool art interpretation of what stations take you where.

The second temple was Longshan temple. This waterfall greeted us at the entrance.

Beautiful architecture.

The temple was full of smoke from the candles, insences and more. 

Buddha.

Intricate.

Nike SB x Poler

So many different pinyin. Longshan, Lung-shan, ...

Water fountain.

Rooftop 

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Monday, May 11, 2015

Taipei 2015 - Part 2


Peeking through the window 
Another look, this time through the door

Day 1 brought us to Xindian where apparently you should walk your bike, not ride it.

The real question is, did you want a whale or a swan to paddle? 
Not before we took a quick flick courtesy of a local

She claims this umbrella protects against UV. You believe it?

Bridge and a paddle-boat dock.
We got up on some two-seat paddle boat.

Of course we chose the swan as whales normally stay under water and we didn't want no capsizing.

Mom keepin a smile on even though the heat, humidity and paddlin ain't easy.
After paddlin, we walked across this bridge and called it a day. Pooped.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Taipei 2015 PT. 1

BART to SFO 
Early and empty.

It's been awhile. The lady at immigration even asked me if I had been here before, or if I could speak a lick of Chinese... to which I answered her... "xie xie"

Cole Haan x Lunarglide..

Cruising in the back of a Taxi back to Grandma's place

It's nearly impossible to tell, but if my AF didn't bug out on me, this woulda been a sick flick of the first cyclist I saw in Taipei: a fellow tarck baiker with an A2 alu frame.. (pretty popular in TW from what I gather)

FaceTime makes everything merrier, doesn't it?