Day 8 Taipei 101, Songshan and Huashan Cultural parks

We had one more day in Taipei, but had already gone to all the places on my list.  Had to scramble to find things to do.  We checked out from our hotel (listed as "UrbanAbode Dugu") which conveniently had a luggage storage area - no regrets staying there!  Took the train to the touristy Taipei 101.  I am not a fan of visiting high-rise buildings.  Charges to go up to the Observatory were high so we didn't bother.

We were there

Nah we didn't go up

Decided to check out Songshan Cultural park next.  I saw a well-patronised Hong Kong restaurant... but hubby who appreciated Chinese cuisine wasn't around.  I must say that hubby was very much on my mind this trip.  :(  We walked into a Japanese yakitori place which looked good - food was average only though.

Ok lah can eat lah

Songshan was a tobacco factory converted to an arty place.  Hmm I don't GET it.  It's not really an art place, many areas seemed to be more for students or other people who belonged there, there were things to see but not organised.   

Funny duck

Funny octopus-monkey stack

Cool things in the shop

Cool wall painting

We decided to move on to Huashan Creative park, which had a similar concept. This one had more visitors, had food outlets (unlike Songshan) and was overall more 'fun'. 

Giant Snoopy on a cream puff

Found some pixies

Pretty wooden things at Wooderful

Still, I don't get the concept of these cultural parks heh.  We wandered around till we were tired, then headed back for our luggage and then on to the airport for our flight home.