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  To me the best way of discovering a city is to stroll up and down the streets.  |
| National 228 Memorial Museum. A fantastic discovery! A museum filled with memories, but few items on display.     |
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An other museum, the National Museum. The first item on desplay is the Formosan clouded leopard, which has been considered extinct since the early 1990s. |
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Preparation to celebrate the Chinese New Year festival starts early. |
The year of the horse starts on the 31st of January 2014. |
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Chinese New Year. The streets are empty in Taipei.    |
After the Chinese New Year different offerings appears in front of shops, hotels, restaurants and office buildings. The last table is outside the Artists Village (where I am staying). |
The Lantern Festival. Full moon on February the 15th.    |
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The path to Hemei. |
 Finland, amongst all other signs!   |
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The night markets are filled with surprising ingredients. |
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The adventurous way up to Maokong.  |
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Plants are like small stories if you look carefully.   |
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The plum, Prunus mei, is the Taiwanese national flower (officially from July 21, 1964). |
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A meadow with cosmos flowers - enchanting!  |
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Dinosaurs at the Zoo.    |
 When visiting different museums there are usually different stamps to collect, a very nice practice! |
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   Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. |
 The National Museum of History located in by the Taipei Botanical Garden.  |
 A new museum which is also very anonymous is called Nanmen Park. The building is a former factory and now showing an exhibition about camphor.  
 Little White House is situation also at Nanmen Park. It is an old warehouse but now on display contemporary jewelery design from Taiwan |
  The way down from the Xiang Chan Hiking trail.  |
A talking bird, |
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     There must be several traffic accidents daily, like this one. |
Guan Yin Mountain by the Tamsui river.
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A temple - suddenly in the forest!   |
A dog's life.   |
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Several days with rain. |
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The very best exhibition is Xu Bing's retrospective show at Taipei Fine Arts Museum.    |
| An other amazing project by Xy Bing at the National Museum, called the forest project. http://forestproject.net/    |
The view from 101.     |
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The temple ornaments are a bit like scary stories.           |
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Thousands of Taiwanese students are occupying the streets outside the government offices to protest against a trade deal that will open the country's services sectors. The demonstrations started on the 20th of March.            |
Taipei Confucius Temple and the Bao Temple. |
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  Fortune telling. |
The exhibition by Cai Zhisong called History Re-presented is kitschy. His show is at MoCa, Museum of Contemporary Art. |
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  There are extremely many temples in Taipei and Taiwan.   |
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國民革命忠烈祠   The National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine. |
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More flowers!   First time Lotus flowers! |
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On the road to the National Park Taroko. |
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Lin An Tai Ancestral House. |
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| The blossom in Alishan Forest Park in the middle of March. 阿里山國家風景區              |
