Taipei

Currently the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101 is a breathtaking structure in a city without that many tall buildings.  Hildo, Francoise, Darren and I made the trek.

The elevators are also the fastest in the world, moving you upwards at up to 1000 meters per minute.

Visibility is constrained, probably because of the intense humidity.  Then we learned:

where you would mail me if you had to,

unicorns exist,

and to beware of miners.

All in all, the trip was

Maybe Roland can get a pair to match his shirt.

Okay, I’ll grant you that they are technically miniatures, but is it really the best souvenir for the often-visited-by-children Miniature Museum gift shop?

On reflection, yes.  Yes it is.

This should help with that.

Oh, if only there is needed.  We hotel is nice to think of the, though.

This sign is located in the Miniature Museum of Taiwan.  Next to it is a ladder that leads up into the ceiling (the museum is located in the basement of an office building).  I suspect it’s there in case the miniature witches come to life.

After escaping to the ground floor, we discovered why the temples we visited earlier in the day had deep channels dug around the buildings and footpaths.

First awesome find.  The Miniatures Museum of Taiwan is an obsessive collections of dolls, action figures and scenes of all scales < life size.  I’ll upload the full set of pictures to my Gallery site (stay tuned for a link), but unfortunately with a consumer point-and-shoot, the results are less than stunning.  I might return with some other friends of ours when they arrive in Taipei.

Attention to detail and variety of the scenes is spectacular.  And what miniature tour is complete without some Godzilla-related goodness?

Don’t get the reference in the title?