Backpacker Travel Taiwan: TW Mar 12 (Taipei; National Palace Museum, CKS, SYS, Taipei101, Ximen)

Mar 11 ; national Palace (Gugong), CKS, SYS, Taipei101, Ximen
國立故宫博物院, 國立中正紀念堂, 国父纪念，101，西门町

0900hrs, take buse to Jiantan / or Shilin MRT, TF bus R30 to Gugong. Bus stop is clearly w/ info. of each bus line. So easyyyyyy !!!!

Reach in 30mins, I saw all off this stop. hehe

Many big trees along the way insude (like TianTan in BJ)

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The gate is outstanding in front of bus stop. So hot today !!!

We walk inside, every thing's BIG; gate, stair,treee, or even pitcher... nice

and here, NICE NIKE .... hehe

The mesuem is inside main building. Unlucky, today many Mainland Tour Group inside, we couldnt get inside.... so crowd and noisy. We ouldt even que for ticket... cannot breath
Better walk around outside & take pic here.........

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look back from the entrance we just came

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Another building

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We quick finish here & and ahead to hv lunch at 鼎泰豐 dǐng tài fēng (famouse restaurant), Alex is waiting for us there.

DingTaiFeng hv many branchs; Sogo, TP101 etc. Today we will eat at Sogo. quite near MRT St.

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1) Xinyi Main Store Branch
Route : On Xinyi Rd., near the corner of Yong Kang St.

2) Zhongxiao Fuxing Sogo (B2) Branch
Route : MRT walk from MRT Zhongxiao Fuxing station

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1st manu, spicy dumpling. What is special here? Ofcourse definitely unlike in TH. all dumpling and bao here is very nice, juicy & stuff w/ meat.............

2nd menu, Xiao Long Bao. I thought Xiaoling bao is bao. Actually itsnt not. its a shrimp dumpling

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Last is Mala Tang (spicy soup). TW spicy is nt spicy for us lah. hehe

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Last, My favorite 虾饺

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They're cooking. clean & punctilious

We finish in 1hr as Alex gotta go work. He send us to C.K.S....

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Drive pass the richest area. Alex said House & Apartment here is most expensive. (maybe cuzz near the presendent office and many government office)

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Reach C.K.S. again ths kind of Gate

colourful flower indeed help this palace more nice, we walk to the main building

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only one building here where CKS sit inside.

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Lets climb up stair.... Hello CKS

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CKS sit inside here, never talk to me. hehe His face is unlike I saw in movie

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One moreinteresting here is a group of soldier. 2groups, they gotta rotate each others for morning and afternoon shif. Why ? 2 of soldier gotta stand in front of CKS as a guard untill this palcer closed.

caravan .... concentarte the way to CKS only, never smile even.

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SYS (Shun Zhog Shan) It said he is Father of TW

MRT to SYS St.

The entrance is not very nice, ,much like a park. Just hv some statue outside the building & SYS is inside the building same as CKS just now.

I also dunno the meaning of carv letter on these marble.

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wondered why SYS building is older than CKS ?

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But SYS is bigger CKS

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Nothing much, just statue inside and mesume whic we dont wanna see. hehe

better walk outside, take some more pic & go to TP101.

TP 101 is not far from SYS. just 30mins by walk. We can see TP101 from here

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Lets go TP101. no worry to walk 30mins cuzz I hv good NIKE here. hehe

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Reach w/ nothing. just a simply building Departmentstore & Office inside.

I dunno out of panorama view which is famouse here, still hv other things interesting.. sholdnt hv !!!! I think

Unlucky, I didnt go down to try food at food center. Heard many foods at grund floor.

Also didnt up to see panorama view..... we miss some activities here as the time is not enough.

Jammie is waiting for us at Ximending for dinner. I gotta go now

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World Trade Departmentsore near by TP101. WHAT ?????

Why the queen become like this ????? I saw she is very nice in website

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All building here no matter big or small are all modern construction.
sky walk link up each building around here. I never saw nice sky walk in TH ..... haiz