Being in Taipei for only 24 hours was…unfortunately short. It felt like there was way more stuff to do here than in Singapore but we were only in Taipei because of the layover going home.

We were able to make it to the hot springs this morning at Xin Bei Tou. On our walk up to the public hot springs we ran into a few guys going to the same place from Toronto. The management made us wait until the next group time and then it started raining.

This place was really nice and only cost about $1.50 US to get in and it was full of old Chinese people. I think we were the youngest people in the hot springs. So how it works is that the top pool is the hottest, about 108f and then the lower pools are cooler. The rain was actually really nice because the water was so hot, when you would get out of the water steam would actually come off your body.

We headed back to the hostel and I needed to get my regular Asian haircut which I do on every trip. I paid less than $20 and got a head and shoulder massage before the haircut. Unfortunately it took longer than I anticipated and we had to catch a cab to the airport instead of the bus which is a huge cost difference $30 for the cab vs $8 for the bus.

I will definitely be making another trip to Taipei. I was forced back into using my very rusty Mandarin but according to the old lady that was sitting next to me in the hot springs, I can still communicate.

I guess this will be my signoff for this trip. As of right now I’m sitting at 1700 page views over the 3 weeks that I updated my blog. I bought a Fitbit before the trip and throughout the 19 days we walked a total of 90.5 miles, averaging 4.75 miles a day, the most we walked in a day was 12.87 miles in Singapore. Pretty neat data.

Thanks everyone for the support and prayers during our trip. I had a blast keeping you updated on all the places we got to experience and I’m already planning on where to go next time.
I’m glad that we were able to check out so many different locations, therefore I don’t have an exact favorite place on the trip. We were able to make a ton of new friends which was the best part and I took almost 900 pictures in total.

Thanks for following along, I hope to keep you updated on the next journey back to Asia! Now it’s time to get back to real life.
-Andrew