101

We checked in and I called my Taiwanese friend Vivien and we arranged to meet her and her English husband Dino later. We had an afternoon to see some of the sights of Taipei and we unanimously decided that the first place we saw should be 101 tower, the tallest building in the world. We took the subway (MRT) from Ximen station to City Hall Station and then took a bus to 101. The bottom 6 floors are all mall including a really good food court which we went to first. I had a really delicious beef in chili sauce and rice.

We then went up the fastest elevator in the world to the top of the tower. The trip took 42 earsplitting seconds. It wasn’t a great viewing day, but we could make out the buildings in the city and the mountains around it. The audio tour was terrible and rattled off unfamiliar place names really quickly. We couldn’t keep up so ditched it.