After natural Hualien, here I go to city lights Taipei

From Hualien, I took a 4-hour train ride to Taipei Main. Sitting next to a 70-ish man who was going to visit his son and their family for CNY, I made good conversation and gathered a few more insights to Taiwanese culture and history. He came with the Nationalist party from China and worked all his life as a farmer. He told me the best rice in Taiwan came from Fuli, a town south of Hualien and close to Taitung. I remember passing by the station on my trip north from Kaohsiung.

Arriving in Taipei, I found lodging at this place over the internet. I was pre-warned abt this place by my hostel friend, Kazuno, so I was expecting the worse. It wasn't that bad but I could see myself being very bored in the place since I had to stay 7 nites in Taipei and it was the CNY period. Everywhere was going to be packed.

Luckily I found this place in Ximending thru a recommendation by the second nite so it was all good in the end.





Blogger seems to be blocking my pictures, hmm. Guess I will finish this post another day. My internet has been on the frizz the whole day.