Week 1 : Around Taipei!

So I decided to spare four days in advance, before my project starts, to explore Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan. I took the night flight by Garuda Indonesia to Taoyuan Airport. When I arrived in the morning, two cute girls from AIESEC Fu Jen University picked me up. They are Amber and Sabrina. Then they helped me to buy Easy Card, and took me to the hostel. I have booked a backpackers hostel near Taipei Main Station. I stayed there from February 8th - 12th, because my project started at Feb 12th. Here are some pictures I took on my first week in Taipei :

Day 1

Cycling around Xinyi District

Cherry Blossom!

Some good and cheap lunch at local restaurant

                                                                                                                                         

Outside Taipei City Hall MRT Station

Xinbeitou Thermal Valley

Crazy Night Market

Day 2

Share Tea, one of my favorite Taiwanese Bubble Tea! 

 Holding Taipei 101

View of Taipei 101 from Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall

A park near Da'an District

Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall

Friends from Foodbank Project

Sun Yat Sen Statue

Taiwanese snack at Shihlin Night Market : some vegetables wrapped in pork bacon

A temple in Shihlin

Cheap (but awful taste) Takoyaki

Shihlin

Day 3 : Xin Nian Kuai Le!

This is how my hostel looks like (Taipei Backpackers Hostel)

Happy Chinese New Year! Started the new year with breakfast with Lidya

Ximending area

Selca :D

Got this awesome painting only for 100 NTD

Fried sausage in Ximending

My dinner

Taipei Main Station area

Day 4

Taipei Zoo!

Zoo ticket

Happy snake year!

Real penguin

Finally I see a panda

Panda?

Maokong Gondola

Blurry view from Maokong Gondola

Arrived at Maokong

Colorful mirror

Dinner : Zhu Rou Fan! (Pork Rice)

What a tiring yet very fun 4 days in Taipei! <3