Taipei International Flora Expo

From late fall of 2010 until late spring of 2011, the city of Taipei is hosting the International Flora Expo.  Since we already paid for it with our tax dollars, we didn't feel like paying for it again with the NT$200 (around US$6) admission fees.  We decided to enjoy what we could see without the extra charges, including what we can see over the gate.

     Here's some of what we saw:

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     The photos in this part are from a sneak preview of the Flora Exhibition when it first opened for a trial run.  It wasn't intended for the general public (the average taxpayers), but the taxpayers didn't know that and went in anyway.  

     I'm sure you noticed that I like seashells.  I have a collection of over 200 different ones, mainly from Taiwan. 

     The ones below are arrangements of flora submitted by people from various places in Taiwan.  At the time I took these pictures, submissions from other countries had not yet arrived.

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