Happy New Year! I had a three day weekend because of the holiday. So after relaxing a bit, I decided to go back to Taipei for some more quality tourist time.
We started off the day at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The name is a bit deceiving as it is really a contemporary art museum. The main exhibit was a Taiwanese artist (http://www.caiguoqiang.com/), and a big part of his stuff was using gunpowder to paint. He also had some crazy stuff like 99 life size wolves flying up into the air and crashing into a glass wall. There was also a really cool portrait exhibit of Taiwanese artists and political figures.
Main lobby of the Fine Arts Museum
Out in the courtyard
Afterwards we went to the Longshan Temple, a temple built back in 1738 to the goddess of mercy. The main temple was in the middle of a courtyard with a ring of temple around the outside. It was super crowded, and there were hundreds of people standing facing the center temple chanting together.
Dragon outside the Longshan temple
Working my asian pose
Inside the temple
People chanting at the Longshan temple:
Close to the Longshan temple is another night market called Snake Alley. One of the dishes they serve here is snake soup, and before your soup is made you can see the snake alive in cases in front of the store. Snake alley was full of these places, and had some pretty crazy snakes.
This thing was a giant
Can't wait to come visit! I want to see the temple. But NOT the snake. That is one heck of a serpent, that's for sure. Does it speak Parseltongue?
ReplyDeletelove the asian picture pose!
ReplyDeletedon't forget to make the 'W O W' face. very asian.
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