amdavidson

Trip around the World

posted on 2008-07-15 - amd.im/acFN

So I realized that I haven't posted in a while. So here goes.

I'm currently on a trip around the world, and it's in full steam. I just got to Taiwan last night, and so far I've had some good adventures and brought my camera with me.

Germany was good, we were really stacked with work stuff, but I was able to get out in the early morning and the night to explore a bit.

I really enjoyed my last trip there, and enjoyed this one as well. It's a fascinating place, with a lot of true history to enjoy as you wander the streets of little German towns. I found a couple of old cathedrals and town squares that were fun to explore.

Taiwan is always a sight to see, I had the afternoon off in Taipei, so I went to visit the tallest building in the world. It was quite a sight... The mall below it is only the 'hoity-toity-est' of stores, and after 5 floors of Cartier, Piaget, Vuitton, and others, you get to an area that lets you head up to the observation deck, which costs like $10 USD but I figured it was worth it, and it certainly was.

The building is amazingly high, over half a kilometer up in the sky, dwarfing anything else in the Taipei skyline. At the top you can see for miles and miles, and there was a lot of cool information about the architecture and engineering of the building which I enjoyed greatly. (If you click through to the gallery, the big yellow ball thing is a huge mass to dampen the effects of wind on the structure).

Anyways, it was an amazing thing to hop on a plane and leave a country known for its history, and land in a country that is as modern as they get.