At the east exit of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall I ran into very nice scenes of Taiwanese people spending their free time. In particular, there were some groups of teenagers practicing breakdance, each group dancing facing the wall of the building to their own music coming from a small loudspeaker. Why would they dance agains the wall rather than facing the park? I couldn’t figure it out.
Next to the dancing teenagers there were some stone benches with older men playing Chinese chess or watching others doing so. I watched the scene and took pictures for quite a while so that in the end there was no time left to go to Taipei 101. Next weekend, maybe!
(Click on any of the pictures to get them full-sized in a slideshow.)
Breakdance facing the wall, here a mixed group…
… and here a girls group.
This guy was my favourite.
And also this girl.
This picture I actually took in front of the Eslite bookstore. Looks like the commercialised version of break dance. I found the Memorial Hall backyards dancers much cooler though.
Chess players.
One of the chess players brought his dogs. In a trolley.
And some more pictures around the Memorial Hall:
Asian tourists taking pictures of Taipei 101.
Yoga practicioners, undisturbed by people passing by.
schade, dass wir keine herbstferien haben, um dich zu besuchen!