Travel Taipei

Though it is just a tall building but not tall enough to be no. 1 in the world, it is still a symbolic and remarkable building in Taipei. I especially like its parking space and the shopping mall, it is spacious and can enjoy the easy time in this gigantic building. If you are interested in the architecture elements you can find many attractive and symbolic image, such as the ancient coin (fortune), bamboo (bright future) and the lady skirt (the shopping mall extension from the office building), etc. There are many things you can look around in this building and you can also go other attractions near 101.

希望時不時推出優惠專案，讓大家不能出國也能有國際級的享受，去到上面有安排很多攤位活動，很多元、豐富的活動，希望能安排更多適合各客層的活動，吸引大家的眼球。

Having enjoyed a meal at one of Taipei's most famous restaurants, we found ourselves at the foot of this Taipei icon. Rising slightly over half a kilometre into the air and easily the tallest building in all of Taipei, its stylised design was inspired by a stalk of bamboo. Despite it not being a weekend, we found the ground floor packed with loads of visitors, especially young locals who had made it a place to hang out. We headed past the luxury shopping and dining areas on the first few floors for the elevators that would bring us to the observation deck. There were less visitors here, and not much of a queue to reach the top. The elevators did not have glass windows so everyone merely paid attention to the graphical display that showed us travelling at an impressive top speed of just over a thousand metres per minute and reaching top top in slightly over half a minute. At the observation deck, we found the all-ound views of Taipei and its surrounding hills quite grand although visibility was somewhat affected by a rain squall that arrived suddenly along with some fog. One of the highlights of visiting the observation deck was seeing the incredibly heavy damper used to minimise swaying of the building in heavy winds. Made out of steel, shaped like a pendulum and weighing over six hundred tonnes, visitors can even purchase souvenir mascots that are similar in shape. We certainly enjoyed our visit, and our kids enjoyed the visit enough that they also chose to have their photos imprinted onto T-shirts designed with the building in the background.

We visited this tower at night after our visit to Elephant mountain or Xiangshan. Plenty of people milling around and brightly lit and colorful. You can buy a ticket and go up to the observatory, but we didn't 'cos we have better views up on Xiangshan or elephant mountain and the views were free. You can see Taipei 101 from many areas including Dr Sun Yat Sen memorial grounds, but Xiangshan offers the best view. This used to be the tallest building in the world from 2004 to 2010 before it was dethroned by the Burj Khalifa in UAE. The Taipei 101 Metro station is right outside.

무엇보다 날씨가 젤 중요한 듯 합니다. 일찍 도착해서 지하 층에서 식사 후에 천천히 쇼핑하며 올라갔습니다. 패스트트랙을 사서 올라가니 특별대우를 받는 것 같아 좋았지만, 제가 간 날은 사람이 많지않아서 조금 돈이 아까웠습니다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 확트인 전망과 옥상에서의 기억은 잊지 못할 추억이 되었습니다. 전망대의 볼거리도 풍부한 편이구요.