The week after the Rotary dinner, I went to the Taipei Zoo with the two exchange students, Michael and Henrique. The zoo is only about 20 minutes from my apartment at the end of the subway line. This subway line runs above ground, so the trip is very pleasant as it winds through some green hills. Just before the zoo, on the side of one such green hill, I saw what looked like a deserted colorful little community. I thought perhaps it was a cemetery and, when I asked later, that was right.
The zoo is fairly large with long walkways. On the trees are orchids:
The much-talked-about sight to see is the Panda bears. When we entered the zoo, we were given an entrance ticket for a 10 minute time slot to see them. Even with the ticket, we had to wait in line about 10 minutes (which can be much longer, especially on weekends):
One of the more interesting sights was these monkeys chasing each other and the other animal (the gray and black one with some green residue...that's from the pond area in his area that was covered in green algae...anyone know what kind of animal it is? We didn't...):
There were several school groups visiting the zoo and the kids were so cute:
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