5 December 2006: Taipei Zoo

Marvin, Shingo, Yasushi and I had made an impromptu decision to visit the Taipei Zoo in the afternoon. Markus has always been recommending the Zoo to me as a great tourist attraction. There was a light drizzle, but we still proceeded with this plan and had enjoyed ourselves. We are four adult men in a zoo of approximately 1800 visitors, most of whom were school children on their regular excursions. However, it was a great pleasure reliving some of our childhood moments, and age should never have created a barrier in our psyche in the first place.

We had paid an admission fee of NTD 30 each into the Zoo, and I had to admit that for this price the Zoo has been very well-maintained and fun! Except for perhaps pandas and tigers, we had managed to find most animals iconic of a normal zoo. Many of the animals are very cute:


This is a white rhino:

Zebras now bear symbolic meaning to me, because Jacky Wu had worn black and white stripes when I met him last month:

Marvin had never been to the Shilin Night Market before, and this was much to our disbelief initially. Thus we went to Shilin in the evening, and our fun had continued through the night. Anyway, I'm really dead beat now to continue typing here, so good night!