Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Part 2 of Langton's go wild in Taiwan, if you can take it.

Taiwan's metro system includes a bubble car ride to a mountain-view. But not just any bubble car. A Hello Kitty themed bubble car, where everything is covered in Hello Kitty (the panda is from the zoo next door.
 Everything.
 Lunch! The traditional specialist of a rice steamed bun filled with pulled pork. It is called Gua Bao, or Tiger eats Pig, because the bun looks like a tiger's mouth. By reputation, this place does the best gua bao in town.
 This man could hardly contain his excitement at eating one
Then we met the Beatles. At the Huashan 1914 Creative Park which is an arts centre converted from an old Japanese brewery.  I think John or Paul is missing, although he may be obscured by Ringo's nose.
 After the excitement of city life, we headed out of town by train. Sadly not a bullet train, but more bullet like than Virgin Rail from Birmingham
Our destination was the Taroko National Park on the Pacific Coast, up in these mountains. Could it get any colder?

To be continued (and concluded in the final post)

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