Trip to Taipei

This was our first trip to Taipei and the bus on the way in allowed me to see a great deal of the city and surrounding scenery. Taipei was a very impressive city with many high rises. I haven't been to that many big cities, but it reminded me a lot of a previous trip to Chicago. The MRT Station seemed very innovative, and they could control the whole track from the control center. In the Taipei area alone it had around 90 stops, almost one every km. We also were able to ride on the MRT, and I was amazed at the cleaniness. Neither food nor drink is allowed on the MRT which seems to play a vital role in keeping it in prestine condition. On the MRT we were really able to take in the scenery of Taipei and really able to see how mountaineous Taiwan is. Dr. Chin said Taiwan is about 60% mountains.