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Hiking in Taipei is wonderful and weird
By Andy Crosthwaite
“Hey, I’ve seen you before,” an elderly gent yelled. I was hiking past him on Bishanyan in Taipei’s Neihu District (內湖) and decided to stop and say hello. It turned out he thought I was someone else, someone almost a foot shorter than I and also not bald, but why get bogged down in details?
We had a nice, albeit strange, chat; he provided intimate details details I neither asked for nor wanted to know about how he did not feel his age.
Anyway, it was entertaining, and these surprising, random and overwhelmingly positive moments are regular experiences on Taipei’s hiking trails.