Taipei, eclectic city.

Christina und ich beschlossen, die Weihnachtsferien in Taiwan zu verbringen, um dem Wiener Winter für zweieinhalb Wochen zu entkommen.

Christina and I decided to escape Viennas cold winter for two and a half weeks and spent our Christmas holidays in Taiwan.

Taipeh

Taipeh auf eigene Faust zu erkunden, das macht richtig Spaß. Und die U-Bahn bringt einen überall hin. Hier ein paar Eindrücke:

To explore Taipei on your own is really fun. And you can go everywhere by metro system. Here some impressions:

Consecration of a new dragon statue at the Bao´an Temple:

Elephant Mountain at night:

Hipster-Design-Artists shops and much more at Huashan 1914 Creative Park:

Within the crowds at Longshan Temple:

A cable car ride into the green hilly outskirts of Taipei, at Maokong:

A very special temple, at the Yihne Cave Trail near Maokong:

Some Taipei street captures:

Wo wir so herumspaziert sind in Taipeh/Where we strolled around in Taipei:

Confucius Temple, Bao´an Temple, Longshan Temple, Dihua Street, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Red house area, Wuchang Street, Treasure Hill, Revolver – bar/club, Maokong, Yinghe Cave Trail, Din Tai Fung – dumpling restaurant, Taipei 101, Elephant Mountain and much more.

***

Taipeh hat ein tolles U-Bahn System, mit dem sich die ganze Stadt erkunden lässt. Einfach zu benützen mit der “Easy Card”, einer Prepaid-Karte, die sich in allen Convenience Stores einfach aufladen lässt. Man kann die Karte für viele Transportmittel taiwanweit benützen.

In Taipei you can get everywhere with the superb metro system. Just using the “Easy Card”. That is a prepaid card that you can upload in every convenience store. Useable for a lot of tranportation systems all around the island.

Cameras: Fuji GS645S and Rolleiflex 3.5B

Lenses: EBC Fujinon W 1:4/35mm and Tessar 1:3.5/75mm

Film: Kodak Portra 400

Location: around Taipei

Special thanks to Alex, an expat living in Taipei, check out his Blog about Taiwan and film photography .