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{TRAVEL}: TIL NEXT TIME, TAIWAN!

{TRAVEL}: TIL NEXT TIME, TAIWAN!

July 15, 2013
Hi everyone,

 Suddenly, I don't know how to start this last blog post about #Taiwan trip. The feeling is like when I was in Taipei on my 4th day knowing that this was my last day in Taipei. It's getting emotional.

 My flight back to Singapore was at 8pm so I had plenty of time to walk around the streets and to look for some souvenirs for friends and family. My hotel is located right at Ximending, one of the most popular shopping districts for young people. Ximending is the source of Taiwan's fashion, subculture and Japanese culture. It's like "Shibuya of Taiwan"

The streets at 12pm didn't seem to be very crowded and I had an entire street for myself for photo taking. 

Wearing the "Catch me if you can" cut-out T-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a denim jacket just in case I would be cold on the airplane later at night.



As you can see from the photos, most street shoppers are youths and the way they dress up is pretty similar to Japanese style.

Walking at the middle of Ximending street with my favorite frog hat that I bought for my nephew Miu the other day. It matches my sunglasses, don't you think?

Too much of walking and shopping around under the crazy hot sun worn me out, this was the last thing I wanted to do before leaving Taipei. 

Sitting in an air-con restaurant with a cool drink and looking over the vibrant streets, I knew my trip was complete! 





Taipei had been good to me from the moment I stepped into the city til the minute I left: the food, the scenery, the people (I love Taiwanese people already, why are they so friendly and helpful?), the culture, the vibrant city and the crazy shopping experience and many more. 

The city bid its farewell with this amazing picturesque view when I was on the way to airport, what should I say?
Good bye Taiwan! Til next time! 

I don't know how soon I will be back but I know I definitely will. Thank you for everything! I enjoyed so much my 4 days while I was there. Also, thank you Streetdirectory for filling up my dream-traveling-destination-list.

Thank you so much everyone for following me in my #travelingwithCrystal journey on Instagram & Facebook. It was so fun to share my traveling experience with you guys. I hope you enjoyed the blog entries about my Taiwan adventure. 

Love, 
Crystal
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{TRAVEL}: WANDERING IN TAIPEI

{TRAVEL}: WANDERING IN TAIPEI

July 13, 2013




Hi everyone,

Here goes day 3 of my #Taiwan adventure! Day 2 and day 1 posts are here in case you missed reading them.

After day 2 with full of sightseeing, back-to-nature itinerary, I decided to reserve my third day in Taipei to explore the city and to see what Taipei has to offer. I guess, growing up in a city gives me the curiosity and habitude to explore other places that are close to where I grew up. My comfort zone, I admit.

While everyone else went to other historical tourist place, an hour drive away from the city, I decided to stay in and to become a city wanderer for one day. No plan, no expectation, just go with the flow and see what would happen. It turned out to be a perfect day. 


I and my P.A Carmen started our day at a place called: The Red House: a Western-style red-brick octagonal structure in Taipei's Ximen space built in 1908. It is Taiwan's first public market and the most well preserved class III historical site. 

 Beautiful building, architecture, color and brightness (thank to the weather on that day) made a perfect backdrop for outfit photos and I couldn't say No to this offer. We had few photos (as above) taken here before we moved on the next location.




I love this photo Carmen took for me: a very typical street-walking fashion shoot. 

There is one place that everyone must visit whenever you are in Taipei. It's no other than 

Taipei 101!


 Taipei 101 is formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building was ranked officially as the world tallest building from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010. 

Taipei 101 comprises 101 floors above ground and 5 floors underground. The building was architecturally created as a symbol of the evolution of technology and Asian tradition. The tower is designed to withstand typhoons and earthquakes. Also, a huge multi-level shopping mall adjoing the tower houses with hundreds of fashionable stores, restaurants and club. 

From this corner, somehow it reminded me of Raffle City Shopping Mall in Singapore. Beautiful, clean and splendid. 
Walking outside of the mall, we found a small fountain at the center of a huge opening space, there was no way I would miss this chance for an outfit of the day photos as  not every day you could find water as backdrop for your outfit photo quite pretty like that. 

Wearing my favorite summer floral romper with denim jacket and the pair of sneakers I just bought in wholesales shopping market Wu Fen Pu a night before
















Leaving Taipei 101, we went to another shopping paradise called Core Pacific City, also known as Living Mall. This is probably the weirdest mall in Asia with the shape from the outside looks like a gigantic golf ball being embraced by a stone sarcophagus.  


I didn't buy anything here except for a cup of ice green tea latte from Starbuck. That was all I needed at that time.

 Leaning onto Taipei101. You look so small there but You are quite magnificent here. 

A touch to remember! Taipei 101, finally we met. As this was the last night I spent in Taipei, I didn't want to miss a (probably) lifetime opportunity to see the entire Taipei at night from the 91 floor, I went back to Taipei 101 after Core Pacific City and went up all the way to its top. Taipei, indeed is an amazing and vibrant city. I always have so much emotion and thoughts whenever I'm facing the spectacular view like this. I felt so small in this huge city yet so big at the same time. From thousands miles away, I managed to be here, had my footsteps on this giant building and looked over the entire city. Taipei looked magical just below me, so near and yet so far.

This was my last night spending in this beautiful city, I was not sure when I'd be back here yet but til then Good night Taipei! 

 ::Outfit::
Floral romper: ASOS - Similar here , here, here and here
Denim jacket: Forever21- Similar here and here
Sneakers: Converse  Other colors: Blue, Green, Pink, Black
Sunglasses: Glossi Eyewear- Similar here
Accessories: Lovisa
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{TRAVEL}: DAYDREAMING IN TAIPEI.

{TRAVEL}: DAYDREAMING IN TAIPEI.

July 10, 2013


My second day in Taipei started at 8am. It's considered pretty early after all night long shopping at night market. I was told that second day in Taipei was going to be full day of sightseeing, hotspring and it's said that Taipei has so many picturesque and beautiful scenery, I thought it's definitely worth the sleeplessness. I wasn't disappointed. 

We arrived at the Taipeil Railway station for breakfast, hopped onto a bus after that and headed to Erziping Trail in Yangmingshan. 



Located between the main peak of Mt. Datun and Mt. Erzi, Erziping Trail was built a long a volcano-tectonic depression in Yangmingshan and ranked as the country's top 10 scenic trail.


 The approximately 2-kilometer trail seemed to be shorter when we were entertained by the beautiful nature and scenery along the way but that's not all yet. What greeted us at the end was way better than I expected to see. 

I lost my words when I looked at this beautiful scenery. I thought I just entered into a wonderland or a dream that I would never want to exit. 

The photos aren't good enough to show you how beautiful Erziping is. I started feeling a little jealous with Taiwanese for living in such an amazing wonderland, weather and nature.  That explains why their skin looks so much healthier and smoothier. Knowing that there's no way I could bring this nature wonder back to Singapore, I just had to grab this opportunity to take as many photos as possible. 

 These outfit photos, thus, become very special and unique. 

I was on my most casual outfit ever, ombre denim vest on denim shorts and flat sandals. It's comfortable and effortlessly chic. 










I'm not so sure how soon I would re-visit Taipei but this is definitely my ideal get away place. I found so much inspiration when I was in Taipei, the nature, the people, building, color and life. There were so much for me to take all in during 4 days I was there. 

 Ending my day 2 with the one hour private hot spring, it made me fell amazingly alive again after one long tiring day walking around. I could start everything all over again. 

 On the 3rd day, I went to visit the magnificent Taipei 101 and I can't wait to share with you what I've experienced. 

 Stay tuned to the next blog post.  
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