Roll 1: Arrival Explorations and Da'an

Picture from a small park


First good view of daylight Taipei—--
from my hostel's bathroom window


Motor scooter mega-lot (a.k.a.—--sidewalk)


Found the school--the NTNU inner courtyard


I should mention that I'm standing
in air conditioned space (!!!)


The school's inner courtyard on my side of the street


A very fashionable underground
parking deck entrance


Heping road


Green!


Heping at a light, taken from
the pedestrian overpass


Da'an Forst park's fine attempt at a fashionable
underground parking deck entrance


My one prohibited picture from
inside Taipei 101's mall


Eerily reminiscent, but totally
unrelated--the NTNU school library


The school roof is left unlocked ;)


Looks dirty, but the air's much clearer up here


The eastern view


That's where the tennis courts are!


Yongkang Park exhibiting the best
slide design in the world and with a
very sensible use of stairs


The park's mosaicked concrete
bathroom-protecting barriers


Prayer at a statue in Da'an


Da'an's one hill


The five-meter thick, so-close-fitting-you-couldn't-
stick-a-pencil-into bamboo stand


The ubiquitous foot massage paths


The 'Forest' part of the park


Mossy root-like things drape down from the trees


Classic


Florida


You are not in the bathroom,
but yes, those are tiles


Shrubbery!


Walkers on the flowery trail


Public roller rink--too cool


Saturday afternoon madness


If it's big and green, has tiles but
no leaves, you have a post office


Da'an from another school roof


South on a no-mountain day


Little less smog to the north


Banner inside the school--"Karaoke--Singing
songs to learn Chinese"