./09. Buddhist Temple and Nature Preserve 20Nov2000
Trip to Nature Preserve The goal today was to go to a nature preserve to take pictures, but it took us until early evening to get there, and besides, I saw a real nice temple I wanted to photograph, so I spent more time doing that than anything else.
Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 034 Engrish. Read the last couple of lines. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 035 Wow. A (Buddhist?) temple in Taipei. Inside reminded me more of an amusement park than a temple. There were guys on stage teaching dances to children with an audience of parents with cameras and a loudspeaker system. Cotton candy. Shops selling trinkets. But then, every now and then, a group of people would go by with incense sticks and bowing and praying to some shrine or another to remind you that you really were in a temple. The dominant religion here (turn on ethnocenticism filter) involves buying a type of fake money and burning it to either make your dead ancestors more rich, or to ward off ghosts that are bringing you bad luck. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 036 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 037 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 038 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 039 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 040 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 041 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 042 Whoah. Freaky tree. Gotta snap a pic. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 043 More photos of the temple. The second picture seemed to be the area with the least trinket-selling and picture-taking, so I actually didn't venture in there. Fenny wouldn't accompany me into the temple, probably because she's Christian, so I wasn't sure if I would be committing a faux pas by wandering in there. Too bad, looked like it could've made for some cool photos. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 044 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 045 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 046 Even temples undergo construction. Bamboo framework, though? Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 047 I actually found some areas where no touristy sorts seemed to go. It seems like these were not verboten areas, but just areas that were less popular than the main courtyard or small shrines around it. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 048 The last set of pictures of the temple. A rock. A fountain as seen through a colourful dragon body. Or was it a dragon body...? Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 050 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 052 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 053 Actually, we didn't go here to visit the temple, above. It was just a diversion for me. We actually went to this bird-watching nature preserve. It was also quite touristy, with a lot of candy-selling and such. In the first picture, we see two children... uh... fishing in the mud? I'm not sure, but they really seemed to know what they were doing, so maybe there was actually some critter living in the holes in the ground or something. Personally, I thought it was a riot, so I snapped a pic. Then, there are some mountains, hills, and lakey-like stuff. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 054 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 055 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 056 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 057 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 058 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 059 Sunset and Fenny and I. Just trying to capture the moment. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 060 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 061 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 062 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 064 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 065 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 066 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 067 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 068 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 069 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 070 Here, you can see the temple where I was just. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 071 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 072 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 073 Bored, but I gotta snap pics. Let's get Fenny doing interesting things. Toward the end of this series, Fenny is whopping me on the legs with a plastic bag full of trash. She is bored, too. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 074 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 075 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 077 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 077a Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 078 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 079 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 080 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 081 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 082 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 083 Taiwanese tourists at the nature preserve. I like the Flamingo Family there at the end. Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 084 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 085 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 086 Taipei Day Trip 20Nov2000 087 The last nature preserve pic you'll be afflicted with.
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./09. Buddhist Temple and Nature Preserve 20Nov2000

Trip to Nature Preserve

The goal today was to go to a nature preserve to take pictures, but it took us until early evening to get there, and besides, I saw a real nice temple I wanted to photograph, so I spent more time doing that than anything else.

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Engrish. Read the last couple of lines.

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Wow. A (Buddhist?) temple in Taipei. Inside reminded me more of an amusement park than a temple. There were guys on stage teaching dances to children with an audience of parents with cameras and a loudspeaker system. Cotton candy. Shops selling trinkets.

But then, every now and then, a group of people would go by with incense sticks and bowing and praying to some shrine or another to remind you that you really were in a temple.

The dominant religion here (turn on ethnocenticism filter) involves buying a type of fake money and burning it to either make your dead ancestors more rich, or to ward off ghosts that are bringing you bad luck.

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Whoah. Freaky tree. Gotta snap a pic.

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More photos of the temple. The second picture seemed to be the area with the least trinket-selling and picture-taking, so I actually didn't venture in there. Fenny wouldn't accompany me into the temple, probably because she's Christian, so I wasn't sure if I would be committing a faux pas by wandering in there. Too bad, looked like it could've made for some cool photos.

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Even temples undergo construction. Bamboo framework, though?

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I actually found some areas where no touristy sorts seemed to go. It seems like these were not verboten areas, but just areas that were less popular than the main courtyard or small shrines around it.

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The last set of pictures of the temple. A rock. A fountain as seen through a colourful dragon body. Or was it a dragon body...?

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Actually, we didn't go here to visit the temple, above. It was just a diversion for me. We actually went to this bird-watching nature preserve. It was also quite touristy, with a lot of candy-selling and such.

In the first picture, we see two children... uh... fishing in the mud?

I'm not sure, but they really seemed to know what they were doing, so maybe there was actually some critter living in the holes in the ground or something. Personally, I thought it was a riot, so I snapped a pic.

Then, there are some mountains, hills, and lakey-like stuff.

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Sunset and Fenny and I. Just trying to capture the moment.

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Here, you can see the temple where I was just.

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Bored, but I gotta snap pics. Let's get Fenny doing interesting things. Toward the end of this series, Fenny is whopping me on the legs with a plastic bag full of trash. She is bored, too.