testmeat photoblog

from my last few taiwanese posts i've described the streets in taipei as safe and clean, but it would be incorrect to say they are free from danger. i found the biggest hazard to be bikes, but uniquely people would ride these bikes on the pavements. so in someways walking on the pavement in taipei was comparable to walking on the road in india, although in reality these two countries couldn't be more different when it comes to traffic and roads. in india crossing the road involves judging the distance and speed of the oncoming traffic and taking a calculated risk that there's an opening with enough time to make it to the other side unscathed. by contrast in taiwan it could be the dead of night with zero vehicles on the road, and everyone would still obediently wait for the red man to turn green. i'm sure i was silently judged on the multiple occasions that i impatiently used the indian method to get to the other side.

here's another street photo i took of a local looking straight down the barrel of the lens