Rainbow Village, Taichung

A series of quick shots snapped in Taichung this afternoon when I had the cab driver take a slight detour when traveling back to my hotel...

Sorry about the shitty nature of the photos - poor light + iPhone + rushed as I had the cab driver waiting as there was no way that I'd be able to hail a cab from this place.

Taiwan: Random Taichung & Taipei Photos

A handful of shots taken in during a quick trip over to the emerald island of Formosa a couple of weeks ago.

  

Morning on Min-Chuan East Road, Taipei

 

Taipei sidewalk, outside of a school

 

fancy coffee maker

Siping Sunshine Shopping District, Taipei, prior to it opening for the day

 

Angry Birds cake at a bakery

looking east from my Taipei hotel's roof

 

 odd art at a fish store

Taiwan Presidential Office Building, Taipei

 

 

 guards stand watch outside the back of the Presidential Office Building

Taiwan Armed Forces HQ

funky water tower, horrible architecture, ROC Armed Forces

safety flagger awaits deployment

He's Lovin' It®

 bad bikes

 

shitty shirts

 

birds...

...pups...

...and under-scooter street cat.

 on the menu at a Japanese restaurant, Taipei

 

 sake watcher

  

Russian ice cream

Shitbox microvan on a Taichung street

surprisingly-blue skies above Taichung

random intersection, a 20 minute walk from my Taichung hotel

Taichung taxi driver w/cut-down wheel in his Toyota Wish cab

 

 snake catcher, SRAM factory

 

unnecessarily-curvy bike path, outside Taichung  

view from Taiwan High Speed Rail, Miaoli County

the sun rises somewhere over the Pacific

Down On The Street - Taichung Edition

Two-wheelers seem to greatly outnumber four wheelers on Taiwan's urban streets. With limited parking and the expense of buying, registering and insuring a four wheeled vehicle, scooters are the easy choice for the working masses in this temperate nation island.

Most of the two-wheeled vehicles are scooters, but occasionally you'll come across some interesting small-displacement iron with larger wheels. Like this Kawasaki B1, built in Taiwan under license by the Yuen Foong Paper Company of all things.
Classic looks and a healthy dose of patina. Nice touches too:

passenger foot peg
tank badge of the mighty Yuen-Foong
fender badge
taillight guard
125cc, you don't need much more in Taichung's urban center