Tuesday, Mar 26th, Taipei, Taiwan

Greetings!

While our luggage took the bus today, we boarded the bullet train and sped from Tainan to Taipei.  Tomorrow, we fly to Seoul, South Korea.  But before we leave, there are a few more stops that we'll have time to see.  The first is the Grand Hotel.

If you guessed that the hotel is the brainchild of Chiang Kai-Shek, you'd be right.  His intention was to have a decent place in the mid-1950's for invited high-profile foreigners to stay when they came to the country.

After lunch in its Golden Dragon restaurant, we drove to the Taipei Martyrs Shrine, dedicated to the 390,000 soldiers who died in the War  of Resistance against Japan and the civil war between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China.

We checked back into the Folio Daan in Taipei for our last night in Taiwan, and then went back out to take a walk in the Taipei's old-town area (Dihua Street).  Our guide, Sam, directed us to the Taiyuan Asian Puppet Theater Museum.

And finally, our Taiwan adventure ended with a custom hunger game tour in the Taipei Night Market by Tour me Away.   Twelve local dishes you've never tasted anywhere else (Hint - No one on our tour was able to finish all of them).

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