Monday 30 April 2012

Taipei (cont'd)

National Palace Museum then the huge Chiang Kai-shek Memorial:




Sunday 29 April 2012

Sunday in Danshui (Taiwan)

Buddhist temple - looks like a shop


hospital founded by Canadian missionary George Mackay and Presbyterian Church

The "Little White House" - British custom house


Oxford College
Fort San Domingo- built by Spanish soldiers then by the Dutch later became an English prison

view from the British Consulate

the British Consulate


Huwei Fort- built by Germans for the Chinese government after the Sino-French war of 1884



For Julien

shop on Fisherman's Wharf

Saturday 28 April 2012

Taipei - Dihua Street (Datong)







Matchmaker temple








closed computer stpre




Cisheng (Taoist) Temple







Long weekend in Taipei- Day 1- Tower 101




Nice marketing: how to turn a piece of engineering into a cute puppet

Damper Baby holding the real 660 T damper