National Center for Traditional Arts 國立傳統藝術中心

The National Center for Traditional Arts is located near LuoDong (羅東), in Northeast Taiwan.  It is a small theme park.

Traditional craft and art stores along the main street

Young man demonstrating candy making

Acrobat perfomance

Spectators watching the performance

After the performance

Tofu vendor - mist was sprayed periodically to cool down the 30+ C degree temperature

Colorful Lanterns

What happened?

Apple Candy

Happiness - Volunteers help you take photos

Take a photo with 豬哥亮

Group photo

Selfie

Peek-a-boo

Pro

Taipei Expo Park 台北市花博公圓

Taipei Expo Park was the venue of the International Flora Exposition in 2010.  It is a collection of several parks in the area.  I did not have the chance to visit the Flora Expo, so I did a quick exploration this summer of what is there now.

Park entrance from Yuan Shan MRT station


A collection of stores and food places are still operating here.


This building is now the Taiwanese Indigenous Culture Center.  The building behind it is Taipei Fine Art Museum.


Big bamboo structure in front of Taipei Fine Art Museum


A rest area in a system of overpasses, with a small glass pyramid ahead


A shady path connects two park areas


Lin An-Tai Historic House










On a clear day, you can find many wedding photo sets here

Taipei Skyline

During our 2014 Summer trip to Taiwan, I looked for several locations to take Taipei Skyline photos.

These two photos were taken from Elephant Mountain (象山), which is the located at the end of the red MRT line east of Taipei.




This was taken from the mountain behind Grand Hotel (圓山大飯店）. I was quite disappointed when I learned that Taipei 101 is not illuminated nightly anymore.


Views of ZhongXiao Bridge (忠孝橋）from ZhongXing Bridge（中興橋）




Taipei Skyline from ZhongXing Bridge（中興橋）