So here are a few pictures of our week in Taipei (Taiwan) on our way to Australia. It was a great experience but not somewhere I could live, too many ppl, scooters and pollution.

Here is a busy street full of food markets and other niknaks. Busy as hell as you can see.
This is the tallest building in the world, called Taipei 101, hence it has 101 stories. It also boasts the fastest elevator in the world, it reaches like 60km/h if I remember right. We went up top to the lookout and it was quite a spectacular view.

On of our pics looking down from the top of the building. This is a parking lot that is solely for scooters. It's crazy how many of them are in the city! They dart in and out of traffic and kind of do their own thing on the road.

One of the temples we ran into, they do have alot of those.
Statue inside the temple of who it is for, I can't remember since we saw quite a few.
Changing of the guard inside temple right by statue. This hapens every hour and the 2 standing guard can't move and inch on their spot for one hour. In the midst of the ceremony, ppl can come up to them and take pictures, some even laugh and point in their faces since they aren't allowd to move.
Ever want to get your ear wax cleaned out?! I saw this crazy stuff they were doing and took picture. They light this candle like thing in your ear and some how in sucks all your wax out into it, prett interesting and gross at the same time.
Myself trying to walk on the rock path. Suppose to to theroputic or good for you but I thought I'd do it just to test out my manliness of course, hehe. It was no sweat by the way;-)
Another little temple we found lying around the city. (I'm that dot at the bottom)
On our on day trip outside of Taipei, we took a train/bus ride farther north for a hour or two. This is a hill with a walk path up we did and there were little huts the whole way up, kinda cool to look at.
Another temple, this one in the small mountain town we spent walking around
Now this my size of ice cream!!
Trying out some famous dumplings and other delicacies. This is our friend Yao, we all went through engineering in University together. He's now been working over there for a year or so. He showed us around a few nights and helped alot in the translation department.
The Grand Hotel, now that's a hotel! We saw it while travelling about and had to go over there to look around, it's huge. Very nice inside and supposedly it has a secret escape tunnel inside it somewhere but we couldn't find it.