On Saturday we decided to go on a little trip to Yilan County, which is a region of Taiwan located east of Taipei, on the coast. Our original plan was to do some paragliding and go to the beach. When we arrived in Toucheng after a two-hour train ride, we had to give up on this plan because it was raining heavily. Welcome to Taiwan, Jannes....
the day stilled turned out well, because fortunately next to the beach, several surfing sheds and paragliding instructors, Toucheng also offers a modern natural history museum to visitors.
Below: Stranded at Toucheng train station:
In the end, the rain changed our paragliding-adventure day to an educational-museum day. Especially the architecture of the Lanyang Museum was spectacular:
On Sunday, we relaxed most of the day. In the evening, we went to Taipei 101 and enjoyed the view from the observatory on the 91st floor.
Below: looking up the Taipei 101 building.
And then the weekend was already over... Nevertheless, I still have something cool to share with you: on Tuesday there was some sort of parade going on in our neighborhood. I believe it was to celebrate the birthday of a god or a temple... Honestly, I'm not sure. There were lots and lots of noises from fireworks, drums and flutes, and some of the parades' passerbys looked really impressive.
Below: Looks more like Baghdad than Taipei... there were so many fireworks, and sometimes people accidentally stepped into them... I went temporarily deaf from the noise.
Some interesting costumes of the gods:
By the way, thank you for all the birthday wishes! I was so happy to see that many of you thought of my birthday, although I'm so far away :). Here's a picture of me enjoying my birthday cake:
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