Beijing 3

Beijing 3

with a side trip to Taiwan

Date(s): September 15 - October 2, 2019. Album by David Clement. 1 - 75 of 75 Total. 19 Visits.

1 view of school morning exercises from our room at Pan Pacific Hotel	2 Izzy devouring dumplings at Bin's place	3 indoor playground	4 in the sandbox
5 Izzy is upstairs	6 Fanfei got breakfast delivered using Chinese apps a couple of times	7 with Fanfei's friends	8 we flew to Taipei on Sept 22
9 Izzy helping to add money to our cards	10 at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial	11 Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall	12 changing of the guard
13	14	15 the next day, National Palace Museum; this is jade cabbage	16
17	18 in the gardens of Chiang Kai-shek's Shilin Official Residence	19 the actual house	20 Lamigo Monkeys hosting the Fubon Guardians
21 at Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium	22 Takoyaki	23 right behind home plate	24 bullpen and batting cage attached to dugout
25 Shifen Waterfall Park	26 Izzy enjoying a moment in her carrier	27	28 at the waterfall
29 this guy operating his drone. A competitor for Will!	30 Shifen Old Street	31 painting our sky lantern	32
33 our lantern just released	34 Jiufen	35	36 Fanfei and Izzy making their way down steps in Jiufen
37 at a playground back in Taipei. Playground videos: here and here	38 Michelin Star sausage at Shilin Night Market	39 scallops I had at Ningxia Night Market	40 arrived at Xincheng Station, a 2.5 hour trip on local train from Taipei
41 Taroko Liiko Hotel	42 beautiful lobby, and we loved the service	43 Izzy having a snack after we arrived	44 lunch at the hotel while we waited for our rooms
45 the view back towards the train station	46 north and south tunnels are separate - the first afternoon we hired a cab	47 to see Qingshui Cliffs	48
49 and the black sand beach	50	51 the hop on hop off bus sites at Taroko National Park - we saw Swallow Grotto, Tunnel of Nine Turns, and The Eternal Spring Shrine	52 some suspension bridges
53	54	55	56 we couldn't get too close to the Shrine because it was closed
57 small towns along the train route back to Taipei	58 we stayed at City Suites Nanxi before Taroko and City Suites Nandong after Taroko (this is the latter after a failed bubble tea trip)	59 the rainy view from Taipei 101	60 running at Taipei 101
61 laughing in the mall downstairs	62 mango shaved ice in the food court near Taipei 101	63 then Fanfei and I went to Raohe Night Market; the corn (pictured) was good and so was pork bone soup, but the highlight was...	64 black pepper bun
65 the view of Taipei 101 from part way up Elephant Mountain	66	67 on the way back down	68 afterwards at the playground nearby on double swing
69	70 finally got the great bubble tea - that's brown sugar on the right	71 Chia Te purchases - mostly pineapple cakes for gifts	72 went out for dinner with Kevin and got coconut and black sesame shaved ice
73 back in Beijing, 70th anniversary of People's Republic of China	74 hot pot in the mall beside East Beijing hotel	75 at another indoor playground, this one served dinner and we were the only ones there!

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