In the next two posts I will wrap up our trip to Taiwan by featuring the trips we took outside of the city of Taipei.
On one of our day trips we took the metro to the Taipei Zoo Station of the Maokong Gondola. It is a cable car that goes up the mountain to the peak at Maokong. There are four stops including the Taipai Zoo stop which is at the bottom where you can start the trip up the mountain. We got a pass with one stop. The second stop is Taipei Zoo South which is inside the zoo. We passed that one. The third stop is Zhinan Temple. This is where we decided to get off. The last stop at the top is Maokong where there are tea plantations and tea houses. I would have liked to go there but we were opting for a shorter day, that is why we only did one stop.
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| Taipei Zoo Station of Maokong Gondola |
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| Cable Car |
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| Great view |
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| Heading up the mountain |
There were great views on the way up. We got off at the Zhinan Temple stop. The temple itself had scaffolding around it where there was work taking place. The temple and the area all around the it was very ornate. My favorite was the dragon fountain. There were plenty of views all around here too. This one shows Taipei 101 in the distance.
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| View from the temple |
I will let the photos tell the rest of the story.
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| Stairs from gondola station to the temple |
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| Inside the temple |
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| Dragon Incense Pot |
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| Year of the Rat |
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| Beautiful Covered Walkway |
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| Chinese Zodiac Animal Seats/Sculptures |
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Golden Dragon Fountain and Pavilion
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| Inside Pavilion |
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| Closeup of Dragon Fountain |
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| My husband's favorite photo |
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| View looking down on fountain, pavilion and waterfall |
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| Going down |
This was a really good day trip. There was plenty to see and a fair
amount of walking. We started off late and got back to the hotel in
plenty of time to get a good night's sleep.
The next post will wrap up the Taiwan trip with one more interesting day trip.
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