For those of you who've never been, Taipei is bustling city that is definitely well-known for its evening markets and among Asia's biggest purchasing meccas that attracts people today from around the globe to check out or to discover mandarin. When I very first came to Taipei in 2011, I fell in adore with this city and ever considering that, I normally came back regardless of exactly where I am and exactly where life takes me.

This can be the one particular spot that I constantly come property to.

This recent winter, it has been particularly rainy and sunlight was scarce. You would be so fortunate to even catch one sunny day a week! So this time, I decided to genuinely make the most beneficial out of every single sunny day and do one thing "outdoorsy" and I managed to go to locations I've never been prior to. The initial location I discovered (drum rolls) was the parks in Taipei.

You have to be thinking, what is so specific about a park? Nicely, I couldn't care significantly less for 1 if I haven't been to this unique a single, which got me on a mission to go to the rest in the parks within the city and truly take pleasure in just about every trip thoroughly anytime the sun is out.

So certainly one of my favourite parks out of all of them and also among the biggest a single, is the magnificent Dahu Park. (which actually translates to Huge Lake Park)

It can be tucked away from the central region of Taipei in Neihu. What I truly really like about Dahu Park is the fact that, it encompass some diverse locations to sight see, picnic, hiking trails, or carry out fishing activities respectively. There is certainly a beautiful Moon bridge in addition to a Pavilion that is definitely the Park's most prominent monument to try to remember it by result in ordinarily parks in general are pretty similar 1 way or another.

I was most likely really lucky that my initial trip towards the park was through an completely stunning sunny day in a twenty degrees climate. You genuinely get to get pleasure from the most effective of it when you pick the right day to go. You will discover an abundance of laughing children operating about, playing all sorts of games and sports in the huge fields, people today bringing their happy dogs out to love this day with them.

Most effective part of it was receiving to feed the ducks! There were a lot of distinct gorgeous breed and wide variety of them and they have been just swimming in its full grace in the waters, only coming up for meals and sunshine to dry off. As well as, for those who enjoy fishing, it truly is the right location for you personally. There are actually loads of corner places to set up your spot and you can have your own "privacy" to do your fishing within a peaceful and quiet setting under your shady umbrella or not. You might decide to bask within the sunlight when you wish.

So anyway, I seriously adore this park and also you could in all probability commit several great hours more than right here to take long walks and catch up on a book in certainly one of those stone benches or lay a mat and possess a picnic with good friends or household. The early mornings would likely be the most effective time for you to catch some superior light and do choose a very good sunny day to make this trip.

So the second spot I've chosen, is definitely the Elephant Mountain. I went there especially inside the evening to attempt catch the sunset. And I did. It was a really spectacular sight to witness the sun setting in its bright orange glory. I literally stopped in my tracks to take it all in. So a lot of people would try to take a hike up on this mountain as a way to get the "best view" of Taipei because it oversees the iconic tallest Taipei 101 Creating and also the well known Xinyi District.

Also called the Nangang District hiking trail, the hike takes a total of about 20 minutes to have to the prime and along the way up, there are narrow rest stops for you personally to sit down to rest or take within the view and also vendors selling drinks and compact snacks.

So you will need not worry which you can't make it up there. It truly is following all just a quick hike in comparison with among those truly massive mountains. It truly is well known as a result of its strategic location and it really is greatest to take your hikes inside the evenings for those who would prefer to remain longer for the evening view as well just after the sun sets.

Last but not least, it can be a really peculiar restaurant I visited that is referred to as the Five Dime Boathouse Restaurant. That is definitely not also far away from the Dahu Park that is an ideal spot to visit right after that.

It's also close to certainly one of the iconic purchasing mall, Miramar Entertainment Park which includes a rooftop ferries wheel in addition to a large IMAX theatre housing quite a few common giant brand names in the department shops.

So just just a little intriguing enjoyable reality and history behind this quirky restaurant that at first glance, you would believe it was some sort of museum.

This can be an interview extracted from an report I have read ahead of I visited the location.

"I am a loner," self-taught architect Xie Li Xiang says of herself, whose thoughts was generally brimming with a single creative believed soon after an additional. She wanted to style and develop a property of her own but with tiny finances she had no option but to be resourceful. Adversity frequently does wonders in bringing out one's possible as she managed to construct a creating from a daydream.

Brick by brick, plank by plank, she constructed her first home within the identical way that she had played with creating blocks as a little bit girl. Strapped for money, she turned her initial building project into a restaurant to earn revenue for additional projects. Possessing never ever attended a single architecture class, she has discovered to design and build totally on her own.

Driven solely by passion and creativity, she has come to design several of the most spectacular restaurants in all of Taiwan. Xie came up with a creative name for her restaurant the "Five-Dime Boathouse"

So I've picked my major 3 selections for these days and in my subsequent post I will elaborate and talk about some of the museums, art galleries and places of interests I've visited and generally go to over once again on all my trips.

I could most likely create volumes and volumes of entries on Taipei if I were to truly commence telling you every certainly one of the places that I've knowledgeable my wonderful share of fantastic memories. You'll find just too quite a few points I like about it and this really is just the icing around the cake.

You will discover famous hot springs, old streets and conventional street food and cultures I could create books about! I will save it for a subsequent time.

Anyhow, I will end it here on a "sweet" note with one of Taiwan's famous sweet treat.

Also called "muah chee" it is actually generally created up of steamed glutinous rice flour handmade, coated having a generous portion of crushed fine peanut along with a variation of black sesame and red bean filling also. From time to time modified just a little to possess a "milkier" creamier taste that melts in your mouth together with its light fragrant chewy texture.