Seattle bound!
2025年3月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
SeaTac
2025年3月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Made it to the airport after an overnight at a family friend’s house. Met up with Courtney at our gate. Next stop, Taiwan!
Arrival!
2025年3月23日, 台湾 ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Landed in Taiwan around 8pm local time. Gracie and Elissa met us at the airport to take us back to our lodgings.
Morning #1
2025年3月24日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Slept well after being awake for nearly 24 hours! Tried some new snacks and prepped for our first outing: scallion pancakes! Delicious!
Chiang Kai-shek
2025年3月24日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
We walked around the grounds of Chiang Kai-shek memorial.
“Chiang’s legacy has long been a point of political contention in Taiwan. At the end of China’s civil war in 1949, Chiang, the KMT andもっと詳しく
Taipei Botanical Gardens
2025年3月24日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We loved walking through all the Duffy gardens! So many unique plants.
Dinner and sunset
2025年3月24日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We had dinner at one of Gracie’s Parents favorite places. The dumplings were so good! Then we went back to the Chiang Kai-shek memorial for a golden hour sunset.
A trip to the beach
2025年3月25日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
We took the train up to the north coast. First order of business was jumping in the ocean. Then we walked over to Lovers Bridge and got snacks before hopping on the city bikes.
Biking on the waterfront
2025年3月25日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We rented city bikes to ride along the waterfront.
Lunch on the waterfront
2025年3月25日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
We stopped for lunch at a swanky restaurant before meandering onwards.
Street market and boba!
2025年3月25日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
After lunch we wandered through a street market, finally got boba, and tried candied strawberries. Then we hopped back on the U Bikes to ride towards the mangroves.
旅行者
What would you say the tourist to local ratio is? Is this where locals go or a tourist destination?
Mangroves
2025年3月25日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
We wandered down a boardwalk that went through a mangrove forest. There were lots of cool crabs and plants.
Night Market
2025年3月25日, 台湾 ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
After regrouping at the house we headed to a night market for some dinner and sightseeing. This was on Courtney’s bucket list. There were many very interesting foods to try. Some of my favoritesもっと詳しく
Beitou Hot Springs Museum
2025年3月26日, 台湾 ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
The hot springs have been a tourist draw for many years. It was fun to explore the area and learn about its history.
Beitou Hot Springs
2025年3月26日, 台湾 ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Hiked up a hill to the Spring City Resort. It felt silly going to hot springs on a 90 degree day but nevertheless we persisted. It was a lovely experience and we went back and forth between the warmもっと詳しく
Daan Park
2025年3月26日, 台湾 ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
We headed to Daan Park to enjoy boba and the lovely weather. We then headed to the grocery store to pick up some things to take home and then to a restaurant pick up some dinner.
Elephant Mountain hike
2025年3月26日, 台湾 ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Gracie’s mom lead us on a hike to the top of elephant mountain to see view of the city. It was grueling mile of steep stairs but worth it for the views.
Taipei 101 was the tallest building in theもっと詳しく
Breakfast
2025年3月27日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
These rice triangles are very tasty and come in all sorts of flavors. We also tried Wax Apples. They have a similar flavor of a mild apple and a slight my softer texture. Almost like if you mixed theもっと詳しく
Yinhe Cave Waterfall hike
2025年3月27日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
We hiked to the Yinhe Cave Waterfall and Temple. It was a hot but beautiful jungle hike. We saw a few fun critters and plenty of cool plants. The work Mao in mandarin means cat so the town of Maokongもっと詳しく
Gondola to Maokong
2025年3月27日, 台湾 ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We took the Gondola to Maokong. It was a beautiful ride with lovely scenery
Post hike treat
2025年3月27日, 台湾 ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C
Post hike treats and souvenir shopping. Mary took us to a delicious shaved ice shop and we found some fun trinkets a stationary shop. We also got more scallion pancakes, yum!
旅行者
I can’t decide if this is s good idea or not...keeps bikes away from cars, but like in Riverfront Park here, neither pedestrians or bikes fully obey the rules. did it seem like a good system there?
Last night dinner
2025年3月27日, 台湾 ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
We ended our last day with an Asian BBQ dinner. We loaded up bowls with our choices of meat and veggies, then it was roasted on skewers and delivered to our table. It tasted devine! We wandered backもっと詳しく
Headed home
2025年3月28日, 台湾 ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Woke up at 5:30 to head to the airport. Gracie’s flight left 20 minutes after ours so we had some time to hang out before scattering to our respective home states. (All four of us currently live inもっと詳しく
Back in the states
2025年3月28日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
We left Taiwan at 9:00 am and landed in Seattle 11 hours later at 6:00am. I get to live Friday twice! Next stop, breakfast with Elissa’s parents then a 3.5 hour drive to Portland.
旅行者Wahooooo!!!
旅行者Have a great trip!
旅行者Have a great time!
旅行者Send lots of pictures.