Enjoy the view over a great city - Taipei

Last Sunday, I meet with Xenia to climb the Elephant Mountain. As the most Travel Guides say there are a few good hiking trails, we decided to start in the later hours of the day to follow one of this trails starting from the 101.

According to our plan we started from the 101 round five in the afternoon to make sure we walk the trail with some daylight. We calculated the time like that to get the chance to see the city by day and night, with only climbing the mountain once. When we reached the bottom of the Mountain we found out that again all hiking trails are just stairways. So, we choose the shortest one which offered us the most photo spots, if you could believe the map, which was shown on the entrance to each trail.

As we reached a point which seamed to be one of the highest the pains from the climbing activity faded away within seconds, due to such a nice view over the city.

Unfortunately we had not the best weather, but nevertheless we had some fun.

Xenia, thanks for the great idea to go up there. I hope your flight was okay and mad your way home without any bad surprises. Nonetheless it was a short time we had together here in Taiwan; it has been a great one.