Taipei from Elephant mountain

Taipei at night, with dreamy sky
Originally uploaded by orange tuesday

Elephant Mountain is a great place to see Taipei at night. It has an excellent view of Taipei 101 and many people come here both day and night to take photos of it.

Elephant Mountain is a 'short' twenty walk that extracts every ounce of sweat from your body. A walk, that you start off walking and then to a determined slogg, which graduately slows down to a crawl. This short but steep walk is forested and provides ever better views of Taipei. Despite the initial struggle, you're greatly rewarded for your efforts once you reach the rocks of Elephant mountain.

At sunset, these rocks will be covered with photographers, busily clicking every subtle change of light over Taipei. This is just one of several places where photographer's gather. Once, here, the walk is much easier as the route flattens out.

The path goes on and there are maps that show an extensive set of paths.