TAIPEI TRIP SATURDAY 24/4/2014
Today, after our plane arrived at Taoyuan airport, we were introduced to our tour guide, David 叔叔. He welcomed us warmly. After that, we went to the famous Taipei 101, and checked into our hotel, RF Pretty Hotel, after a scrumptous dinner.
TAIPEI 101
When we visited Taipei 101, we were treated to a beautiful bird's eye view of the Taipei cityscape. Taipei 101 is a very tall building, with a super fast lift that goes at 1010m/min, and has a super big wind damper which is 5.5m tall and 660 tons. The damper is officially known as "tuned mass dampers" and is the only damper in the world that is open to public view! It is made up for 41 thick steel plates, as high as 5 floors, has a diameter of 5.5 metres and it weighs 660 tons, which is as heavy as 132 big elephants. The ball is suspended by eight very strong steel cables, and each cable is woven of more than 2000 strands of steel! Supporting the ball, there are 16 big hydraulic viscous dampers-8 are slanted, 8 are level. The damper reduces swaying to the Taipei 101 buidling by 40%! That's amazing! It was really fun and the view was fantabulous!
There were many exhibitions of corals and we took many photos :) We're glad we were given a chance to visit this place!
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