Taiwan - Day 3 (Elephant Mountain)

Taiwan is full of great hikes, and the best one in the city of Taipei is definitely Elephant Mountain. It’s a short hike that gives a great view of the city, and especially of the 101.

We didn’t take as many photos as we should have, but here’s a few:

Waiting for Melissa guys at the post office because there's A/C there. 

Playing at the park. 

Lei running up the mountain.

Lei climbing up the mountain. 

The funniest part of the hike was that Ru hiked up with me and Lei. Then we were texting Melissa and her friends and she had said that they went to a different park than us. The only other park that leads up the mountain is on the trail on the other side (we went up by the high school, the other is by Xiangshan MRT). They had a kid with them so Melissa said to send Ru to go help.

We sent Ru to go help and after about 15 minutes, Melissa and her friends showed up from the same side we had taken! Uh-oh. We had no way to contact Ru because he left his phone, so he ended up going all the way down the other side, and then came most of the way back up again before we climbed down to him. hahaha. Poor Ru.

He’s always a great sport about everything and was happy to get the leg exercise.

Lei and I went home to shower and eat some American food, we had been eating too much authetic Taiwanese food. We went to 1885 and got hamburgers. I got the Peanut Butter Bacon Cheeseburger - my favorite. It was delicious.

We stayed in for awhile because I had an interview that night with SDA Bocconi (business school in Milan). It seemed to go really well, and then we went to play soccer!

I miss living in Taipei so much. We used to play every week. Even though there were just a few of us there to play, it was a blast. We just threw down some dish towels for goals and started to play around. Everyone was just there for a good time so it didn’t get too competitive and we all enjoyed ourselves. We got really really sweaty and a little tired so we decided to head to the night market.

Ann fell down when we went for a photo

My favorite night market: Raohe Night Market! Delicious food, minimal crowds (compared to the touristy Shilin Night Market).

This was amazing. Recently I've gotten into these because I played once with Clark and Melissa and Melissa got it on her first try and Clark did on his second!! So Lei and I decided we would each try just one time to see how we'd do. It was so perfect! Lei grabbed it and dropped it right by the edge and then I grabbed it and dropped it in!! We were totally stoked about it. : D

We tried as much delicious food as we could handle before we decided to call it a night.