Welcome to Team Taipei's blog! We're traveling 12 103 km from Toronto to Taipei, Taiwan to participate in Dance and the Child International Conference (daCi), and sightseeing in Hong Kong on the way. This blog follows our progress and lets our parents and friends know what we're up to as Carousel Goes Global.

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

We're all converting to buddhism

Today we were sooooooo tired when we got up (all that late night blogging caught up to me...). We had another delicious breakfast served by wonderful Raymond. Then we went to the island Lantau via subway and stopped at the outlet malls, but most of us didn't want to shop so we chilled at Starbiessss (Starbucks in Hong Kong has so much food lol). Then we waited in line for a million hours to get on the gondola cable car thing to take us to BIG BUDDHA. The cable car was sooooo sweet and we got an amazing view of the island. When we got off the gondola thing we walked to the restaurant at the nearby monastery. It was a hit with the vegetarians (Desiree mostly) but the soup resembled swamp water to the rest of us (complete with full sized sticks). Next we walked up like 280 stairs to the big Buddha and went inside the museum in his belly. It's not really in his belly. The
view from up there was fantastic. Then we bussed to a fishing village on stilts on the island called Tai O and walked through the STANKY fish markets. We died of stench but it was still cool. Also there were wild cows roaming around and an old lady smacked them with her fan. We headed back to the hotel via busses and ferry and cabs and got an awesome view of the skyline. Early night tonight and room service :D




The sick graveyard near our hotel


The first cable car group!



On the cable car!



Twins and Desiree on the car



The view plus another cable car



Ninja champs



Bein all dancey in front of big buddha



The teachers... Heidi messed up the arm :(



Top of the stairs! Foggyyyy



The building in the background is the monastery :)



PUPPY LOVE



Cow licking Chloe's foot hehehehe



Alyssa and Amanda!


The skyline at night

2 comments:

  1. Have a safe trip to Taipei everyone! Can't wait to hear the next installment....

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  2. I'm glad Hong Kong was such a great experience for you guys - the Carousel staff and the itinerary team definitely did an amazing job of planning. I'm looking forward to hearing about your adventures in Taipei :) Thanks for keeping up with the blog, Michaela.

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