I visited Taipei near the end of my round-the-world trip. By this point I was pretty exhausted so I didn't feel motivated to leave the city. Like my experience in Beijing a couple years before, Taipei appeared to have hardly any English information available for tourists.

This large structure which would be right at home in Las Vegas is the Chiang Kai-Shek memorial. He founded Taiwan, and so the young country has a bit of an obsession over him. It's too bad all these beautiful buildings will be razed when the P.R.C. decides to invade.

This is the view of the memorial grounds from the memorial itself. No, this isn't a professional postcard view, it just looks like one.

I visited the Presidential Palace park. The palace actually has the appearance of an American ranch style home from the 1950's, only somewhat bigger. It's surrounded by thick vegitation so the photo I got of it didn't come out good enough to put here, but above is a view of the walk heading into the park.

The park was full of married couples in full wedding getup, getting their portraits taken.

Near my hostel there was a busy intersection. Traffic signals there last for five minutes in each direction, and mopeds (actual motorcycles are very rare) scoot up to the front of the tieup at the red light.