2 weeks in Taiwan : Artistic Taipei

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The next day we went to visit the artistic part of Taipei. Its an area on a hill where artists are living in a somewhat more traditional way. Their work places are attached to their housing and can be visited, also workshop are organized during holidays or week-ends. The artistic feeling can be found in every corner of the streets.
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2 weeks in Taiwan : 貓空纜車

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After a day of rest, we went to take the 貓空纜車 (maokong gondola) to go in the mountains. The gondola takes you high and you can have a vision of all Taipei. We pass above the zoo without really seing much about the animals. I will have to go back to Taiwan to visit the zoo some times. We then walked in the mountains and saw the tea plantations.
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2 weeks in Taiwan : 花蓮市

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I spend the next day in 花蓮市, we went to visit the Buddhist Tzu Chi university in the morning. I learned a lot about the action of the Buddhist community abroad during catastrophes. Then we went to the monastery and to the beach. It was really windy and the ocean was really wavy. 
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2 weeks in Taiwan : 宜蘭市

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The next day I went to 宜蘭市 (Yilan) with a friend and we visited the National Center for Traditional Arts under the rain. The Center is filled of shops with a second floor dedicated to the museum explaining how the craft in the shops are made. This can be from wood work or toy to soap. It was very interesting. We also saw the real puppets of a very famous Taiwanese puppet show.
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