It has been some time since we are back from Taiwan, but only now I am able to follow up on my duties of documenting… As Taiwan has quite a lot to offer in terms of photography and exotic „feeling“, there are rather a lot of images of it, too. I will try to make them available as „impressions“ mostly – leaving you the choice to group and structure them yourself. So, here we go – stay tuned the next days…

For many people a strangler fig seems nothing special, but I do love these plants. They are so powerful and produce magnificent images

Encasing their victim and slowly taking over

They can grow almost everywhere like here on an old wall in AnPing fort. An Ping is quite interesting too. It’s an old Durch settlement in Tainan which in itself is considered the oldest settlement in Taiwan. Whenever like this is mentioned people tend to forget that the native population has been on the island far longer – and their settlements exceed Tainan…

Roots developing over a stone wall… very resilient creatures…

Back in main Tainan at the Temple of Confucius

A very creepy atmosphere late in the evening

Tree bark

The typical way to make roofs – tiles with concrete in between

The entry to a shrine in Tainan

Beautiful doors

and the gardener at work

Don’t rush too much

Imposing entrance

A burner for the devotions

Another magnificent temple in Tainan

Wonderful ceiling and columns

And peace…

inside as well…

The sanctum… in Chinese Buddhist temple everything is far more relaxed than e.g. Thailand – here you can walk around with your shoes on, nobody is annoyed or disturbed if you talk, take pictures, etc. The whole life goes on and on around you – you are just a part of it and in the middle…

another one… (would you have guessed ;-))

And very old arcades – the nice thing in Taiwan is that most of the style and art is actually very old (like in mainland China), yet due to the different attitude towards it, it’s preserved and rather nicely as well…