The first city we visited in Taiwan was Maokong from the Taipei train station. We rode the gondola, went to the zoo, and had delicious tea-infused foods.
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| delicious Lay's chicken chips & milk tea (I actually really like the chicken Fritos now) |
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| Taipei |
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| what is dis |
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| it was raining (crying?) from the neck down too.. |
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| we probably have too many pics like these |
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| at the zoo, a new baby panda was recently announced |
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| papa panda |
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| sleeping mama panda and cub |
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| reminds me of Princess Monoke |
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| the stalking crowd |
So you had to get a special (one-time use) to go through the queue that saw the mama and cub pandas. There were a trail of zoo workers who were very pushy about people moving as fast as possible through the line. Towards the end of it, there's a walkway that goes up to the next floor. People would just congregate there (
above photo) in hopes to see the pandas wake up and move around without being hassled by workers. We went to the zoo in the morning so a lot of the animals were sleeping or lazing about. That part was kind of disappointing, but we got to see a lot of panda butt?
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| "pretend you're being eaten" |
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| conqueror of hippos |
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| I shot a better pic of these birds, but it was overexposed :‹ |
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| pygmy hippo |
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| elephants |
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| these two were so cute; made me miss my dogs at home |
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| seeing penguins in their glass cages always kind of depresses me |
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| Lieu in Chinese |
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| adorable pingu plushies |
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| brown bear |
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| red panda |
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| the Maokong zoo & stations were decked out in Hello Kitty |
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| there were about 4-5 different patterns that decorated the gondolas |
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| this was on the window of our first one |
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| Taipei 101 in the distance (on the left) |
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| there were lots of strays at the top station in the mountains |
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| statue outside Longmen Restaurant (龍門客棧) where we had a delicious lunch |
At 龍門客棧 I got their milk tea, but should have ordered the fruit tea (it looked really yummy). All of the food was fantastic, but I would love to go back and eat their tea oil-infused
noodles again.
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| my mom used to have pet chickens |
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| delicious Chinese sausage with fresh garlic |
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| Hello Kitty decal on the gondola back down |
The gondola lift has four stations, and spans a distance of almost 3 miles. Depending on where you wanted to get on and off, you wouldn't spend more than 5$ per person. Something like that in the states would be 20$ at least. We spent a total of 270NT, which was about 3$ each for three people.
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