An afternoon walking around central Taipei

With a checkout time of 12:00 p.m. at the Madison Taipei Hotel, I used the morning to catch up on a bit of work stuff (mostly writing) in the room.

At that point, I had 3 hours to kill before I could check into my next hotel (The Shangri-La far Eastern). Aimlessly walking around the core of the city was my plan.

I started out walking towards Taipei 101. It was hot. Muggy. I felt like such an idiot for wearing long pants and a long sleeve shirt.

I certainly didn’t intend to go up to the observatory at Taipei 101 (because I’ve been there before), but frigid air conditioning was too difficult to resist.

Never mind that I had already visited the Taipei 101 Tower (and the observation deck) on my first visit back in 2017. It was really cool back then, and I was 100% certain that it would be very cool again.

It was 2:00 p.m. by the time that I returned to ground level. I walked in the general direction of the Shangri-La, detouring into small back alleys along the way that looked interesting.

I even recorded a video of the experience:

I arrived at the hotel by 2:45 p.m. and sat in the air conditioned lobby to cool down before checking in at 3.

The rest of the afternoon and evening was pure bliss as I was spoiled rotten by one of the nicest hotel rooms that I’ve ever stayed in.