More Taiwan stuff

I forgot to add this to my previous post, so I'll say it now. I think I quite like Taiwan (from the air anyway). When we flew in to Taipei, it seemed like the totally urban areas were separated from the more rural areas by a set of mountains. The division between the two was actually quite amazing! Well, at first I was merely amazed that there are actual green mountains left near Taipei, I thought they would've been all logged and then developed by now! Then I was amazed by the great divide. It looked cool. Needless to say, I would love to explore the mountain areas. There's a huge mountain, I think it was on an island next to the ocean. I have no idea where or what it was, but it looked interesting. I'll try to take a photo of it next time (my camera was in my bag in the overhead storage compartment, unfortunately). Oh well, Taiwan explorations will have to wait until at least next year.


The photo to the left was taken at the airport. It´s some disney promotional display and you can take photos in front of it. There were actually people doing cute poses in front of it. Someone was pretending to sit on the slide (but was too big, so they stood over it instead), and lots of people had the peace sign. It´s so asian! :D

p.s. as we were landing, they showed ads of Taiwan, and how it's such a cool place to explore and meet other young people. They were trying to appeal to the caucasian backpackers. It did seem like an interesting place on the ad, but nothing is ever as it seems, especially when advertised!