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Monday, June 06, 2005

Taipei visit.

Hi, i have recently come bak from taipei, Capital city of Taiwan ,Republic of China. Now i feel like writing about my one month's experience of the place.
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Basically, i went to the client side there. Being on the client's side was quite an experience. Writing about the office , work n all is quite a boring story. Its not like my office in india , hifi,hip-hop n all, so therz no point writing much about it. I prefer saying about other things like weekends, hotel, place, people, colleagues etc. I stayed in a hotel called Four Points sheraton, as the brand says, a sheraton hotel always has a quality, better than many other places, and definetely best one i have ever stayed.Its in Chung Hwa , not in the city , but was quite close to my work place. very few friends of mine were in this place,the others were in Fullerton. we had a global community in our team, there were people from India, NRIs of Cyprus, Cypriots, romanians, Israelis, Taiwanese -- uuh imagine howz it working. Actually it was soo great, i always had fun , even in such pressure. Ok lets talk about leisure, whenever we came back early , we used to sit and hang out in the bar of hotel, it was a place where we can meet people from quite many places.
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View From My Room.
My first weekend wasnt dat great, to say it was quite boring, then the next one, me and Ashish, we felt we had had enuf, so packed our bags n set out to go somewhere, enquired at the reception, about a place called WuLai, its a river somewhere near by , we didnt know where it is then, took a taxi till a MRT station(Xan shu r something), from there we boarded a bus to WuLai, the journey was so nice, we met a chinese family,a couple n their daughter(very cute one), the lady could manage to speak english, and she helped us regarding the bus to board. They were quite friendly, thats the best part about the people of Taipei, they are nice and friendly,i think this is the case in almost all the asian countries, there is a kind of warmth and hospitality in the people.
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Chinese Lady and her Daughter who helped us..
On our way we had our first glimpses of WuLai, flowing freely between the mountains and the forests, it was a treat to eyes, Ashish was soo excited imagining how beautiful the place shall be...all his excitment was worth.
Finaaly we reached WuLai(Wooo Lai, right way to pronounce!!),we got down the bus, started walking towards the river, there were quite many shops on the way, like in India, but mostly of Food n beverages,after walking for some time we finally reached the river , haaaa,it was sooo clean free flowing, u know just amazing...we got into the water, ashish knew to swim n he set off , i was just playing n warning him,the current of the water was high, n it looked quite dangerous..
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we stayed there for long.Ashish was very curious about the cable cars, we were able to see them at a distance , but had no clue regarding where to board them n all.. Finally we went searching for them. This river starts from a big waterfall,coming from somewhere in the dense forest,and the cable car takes u close to the waterfall.
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We found the way to go there, boarded a toytrain, which took us through the jungle to the mountain, from there we had to climb many steps, then we boarded the cablecar finally. Ya, forgot to add, we met a couple of chinese at the train station, elderly ones, they were sort of excited to talk to us, n a lady kept asking me hell lot of questions, thou i understood none of them!!
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It was the first time i was ever on a cable car, it was quite exciting.. we were on the other side of the river now, close to the waterfalls,it was all soo great.. i could never imagine that it would all be soo sophisticated, n exceptionally well planned. there was a park, resort, sports , boating n all there in a place,which can be reached only by cable car!!!
we met an indian couple there, they were quite happy to see us, so were we!! we climbed many steps, n the scene there was fabulous!! ,


therz a small bridge kind of thing on the water fall, which makes the water stay , in a small pool.. n in that pool, were many fishes, plants, boats n all!!
best part were the fishes, it was like a very big aquarium, with all those colourful fishes visible!! great treat to eyes! dont think i will ever see something like this anyother time..



we both wanted to go boating, but , we were late , and it closes by 5pm, it was just sometime past 5, still we did not get the tickets!!
anyways we spent sometime there, n went further inside, where , we found a resort, quite beautiful, we passed over few places, then we reached another small pool, n there were, ducks n swans n fishes, it was all soo cute. there were many ducks n ducklings, apart from them there were 2 swans even!! a white one and a black one!



------Will finish this sooon-----------

1 Comments:

  • At 4:23 PM, Blogger sandhyatara said…

    So you had a great fun there.
    Its great visiting a client side and Njoying a lot !!
    so Four point might be a great hotel.
    i enjoyed the scenes. keep writing !
    thanks

     

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