Taipei 101, once the tallest building in the world, stood upright next to Taipei City Hall. Look closely and you can see various traditional Chinese designs incorporated to the exterior of the building. We chose to admire it from afar, a plaza in front of the City Hall proved a good spot, and out came the camera.
Get any closer to the skyscraper and you will find it hard to compose its whole grandeur design into a single photo.
It is quite an iconic building in the sense that by showing only parts of building, it can be easily identified.
We then took a bus ride around the city center and visited the National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and subsequently the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall located around the Liberty Square.
Both memorials featured changing of the guards every hour and inside each, a giant statue of the revered national leaders. The political arena of Taiwan is an interesting one and we spent hours looking up for information about the formation of the republic and the lives of these two leaders.
The memorial hall forms one side of the Liberty Square, with the National Theater and Concert Hall forming the other two.
National Theater located in Liberty Square follows the traditional Chinese architecture similar to the ones in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. An untrained eye could easily mistaken the two. We didn't linger long in the square as we were in a hurry to the bridal studio for selection of our photos for the final printout. Yays..
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