Danshui

Danshui is really cool. It's a small city north of Taipei which is victim of an enormous stream of visitors from the capital in the weekends. The main street follows the coastline and is filled to the brim with many warm and joyful restaurants and pubs. The place emanates a cheerful ambiance and has many interesting places to visit. I didn't manage to do all of them, but here are a few.

Hong Mao Cheng is a small fortress built in the 17th century. The building there is built by the Dutch and replaced the previous Portugese fortress, which was first demolished because the new imperialists wanted a different (better?) structure. I found a humorous cannon manual of which I had to take a photo.

Among other pictures; a street cat, a domestic cat, a local temple, a christian church (Yesu ai ni! ... Jesus loves you), two universities, old men sitting at the beach, too many pictures of the beach, a flock of overly enthousiastic christian youth performing and a way too expensive restaurant where I just *had* to have dinner.