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!

1st trip to Taiwan!

Yay! I've arrived in Taiwan, 8 hours down, who knows how many more to go!

Taipei airport is kind of quiet, not as busy as I thought it would be...however it could just be the time of day. There aren't many flights departing at the moment, I suppose (it's 6pm). Which is good, because it means I don't have to fight with people to get free internet! Yay for free internet at the airport :o)

Anyway, I quite literally just arrived, so I have to find something to entertain myself with for the next 4 and a half hours until the next leg of the journey to LA. So here's to blogging!

So the story so far...um, I watched 2 movies on the plane? Curse of the Golden Flower and Narnia. One thing though, I don't see what the fuss is about with Curse of the golden Flower. It's quite sad, and in the end, everything that happend was a bit pointless. A bit like a Shakespearian tragedy, really. The set and costume was very elaborate though. All I kept thinking about was how it was such a waste (of resources). Oh, and another thing! Since when did people in the Tang dynasty (or any dynasty in China, for that matter) display such copious amounts of cleavage? I always thought the Chinese dressed conservatively? Wow! I have never seen so much cleavage in a period piece before!

Oh, I should also say, China Airlines is not too bad. I was impressed with the food (I get impressed easily, as long as it's vegan!). Anyway, it was Asian(obviously), and it came with vego meat (the kind that I don't mind i.e. doesn't taste or look much like real meat). I think it was made with dried bean curd, and it came with mushroom sauce (Asian mushroom sauce i.e. shitake mushroom stock, pretty much). It was good, I liked it. And they gave me soy milk and nuttelex margarine! And some kind of rice pudding with pistachios for dessert (made with soy milk). I was quite impressed, so I ate it with gratitude.

And just a cute note to finish off, on the flight map (while we were leaving Brisbane), they displayed some names of nearby cities. They had labelled Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Tawoomba. Yes, that is how they spelt it. I kid you not ;)