Enjoying Taipei 101

The Taipei 101 is Taipei's most famous landmark. A skyscraper of 101 floors and 508 meters.

As you saw in my post about the WTaipei Hotel, we had marvelous views of the Taipei 101 for five days. Lucky us!

The building rises way above the city and looks impressive day and night.

Look at the beautiful layered landscape and clouds behind the Taipei 101!

Looking AT the skyscraper is one thing, let's get up close and personal now, shall we?

From street level you get a better idea of the enormous height of the building.

Yup, definitely impressively tall.

Time to go inside and up, up, up!

Here is some essential information that is to be found on the observation deck:

On this picture we see the Taipei 101 from a really high perspective.

The Taipei 101's reputation of being the world's tallest building did not last very long. Nowadays Mecca and Dubai have the two highest buildings in the world.

I knew from my first visit to NY, that the CityCorp Building there  has a huge damper. I read about the construction and technique at that time. We visited the Petronas Towers in KL too, but I was actually not aware that that building has a huge damper as well.

The views from the observation deck were -ofcourse!- splendid. You can see how Taipei is enveloped by hills and green. A pretty sight.

This talking and moving hologram was the first one I saw with my own eyes. Futuristic!

The first 6 floors of the 101 are high end shops, the rest is office space. We ended our morning at the Taipei 101 with a nice cappuccino at the Agnes B coffeeshop. Yummie!

P.s.: notice the hearts on the milk?! Sweet;-)

Did you visit the Taipei 101? What and where is the highest building you ever visited? Was it any good?