RUNHAPPY

Run Happy

Taichung

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This city has a more laid back feel to Taipei and here my bedtime may go from a cosmopolitan midnight to a still-respectable 11pm.

We take the U-bikes to Carrefour, one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world, to buy ingredients for our meals. I could take a whole day to browse this place – it takes “supermarket” to a whole new level for us rural old goats.

In the evening we bike to our running destination, run, and then bike back again – a duathlon really, which clearly deserves a large glass of wine – something that is super-expensive all over Taiwan. One of Taichung’s highlights was a visit to the National Museum of Natural Science. One Sunday morning is definitely not enough time to explore this enormous place. We will be back.

This majestic boy guards the entrance to the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung.
Yes you can order a dinosaur from Takealot.com
The futuristic looking Rainforest Greenhouse at the Museum is guarded by a giant insect. Unfortunately it was Sunday and the Greenhouse was closed.
I think I was more excited than the children by the Hall of Dinosaurs.
A turtle with a following of fish hoping for a snack to be dropped in the peaceful surrounds of the Museum.
This little guy is a master of camouflage. Only his feet rustling the leaves and the blue feathers on his head gave him away.

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