2 weeks in Taiwan : 淡水

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The next day I went to 淡水 with my friends. We walked along the river before lunch and visited the 紅毛城 (Fort San Domingo). It was constructed by the Dutch in 1641 when they expelled the Spanish from Taiwan, apparently his owner at that time had red hair and that's where the name is coming from. Then it became a British Consulate in 19th and 20th centuries.
We then went to visit 淡江大學 university before diner and then went to 士林夜市 where I tried some more delicious food and where we saw some opera.
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2 weeks in Taiwan : 烏來

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The next day we went to visit 烏來 in the south of Taipei county. It's a place in the mountains famous for hot spring and traditional culture. We took the bus to get there and then the train to go deaper in the mountains. We saw the water fall, walked in the mountain and visited the railway museum. It was very beautiful.
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Origami : Roses

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With spring arriving and all my friends taking new classes and being very excited about learning new things, I decided that I should bring something new to my blog readers too. I'm not sure what and how much of it it's going to be but today I would like to start with some Origami.
For people who don't know Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into something.
Some months ago my friend taught me how to make a rose. It's a very complicated process and with time I thought I had forgotten about it but apparently not.

2 weeks in Taiwan : Taipei 101

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The next day we went to visit Taipei 101. Taipei 101 used to be the highest building in the world, and is the first one which break the half-kilometer in height.We didn't took the elevator to the top because there was too many people. I will have to go back there another time.
Before going there we went to a exhibition on world cosmetic and tried a lot of products. That was rather fun. And of course I tried some more Taiwanese traditional food.
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