I'm Charlotte, I'm from Belgium and I just recently moved to Taiwan.

I'm super excited about this, and in this video, I would like to share with you things that I first noticed when coming to Taipei.

The first thing on my list might sound really obvious but it's just the climate and temperature.

I was just shocked when I got out of the airplane and I felt how hot it was here.

'Cause I expected it to be warmer, a lot warmer than Belgium, but the humidity just makes it feel so much warmer to me.

And because of this temperature here, I feel like there's very different kind of vegetation than I'm used to.

Here, I can feel it's kind of a "jungle vegetation". I really like it.

As soon as I got into the MRT (the train from the airport to the city), I could see such amazing views.

Just amazing mountains full of jungle.

So yeah, that's something I really like about Taipei.

When walking around in Taipei for the first time, I noticed something about the architecture of the buildings that is so smart.

The buildings are kind of built in a way where, on the ground, floor a part is left out and covers the sidewalk.

So that way, when you walk around, you're protected from the burning sun.

Or when it's heavy raining, you're also protected from the rain.

So I think that's something super smart the city did.

Someone told me that Taiwan is the country that invented bubble milk tea, and that's really obvious when you walk around here.

There're bubble milk tea shops everywhere you go here in Taipei. So it's amazing.

If you're a bubble milk tea lover and you live in Taiwan, it's basically paradise.

Taipei is built very differently than many Belgian cities in a way that Belgian cities are almost always built around one clear city centre where everything is happening,

you have all the restaurants and everything to do there and then you have the more residential areas around that.

But Taipei is built into many areas, many neighbourhoods with each their different vibe.

To me as a Belgian, it's a very different city than our capital city, Brussels.

Taipei has a very good MRT, subway system.

I really like taking the subway here.

It's easy, people line up like decent human beings.

Not like in Belgium, where many people just push and try to get in the bus or subway first.

Here people stand in line really neatly.

And I also like taking the bus here.

That way I can see more of the city and I think it's pretty easy while using an app like Google Maps to find the right place and the right bus.

So, the next thing is by far my favorite on this list and it is that, sometimes, you can hear some kind of really cute music playing on the streets.

And it reminds me to when I was small I could hear the ice-cream truck play this kind of music.

Children would run outside and buy some ice-cream.

But here, that music is actually the garbage truck coming.

So people, when they hear it, they go outside with their garbage and they throw it away then.

So that's something I never saw in my life anywhere before and it really surprized me. But I love it!

These were my first impressions when arriving here in Taipei.

I hope you enjoyed watching this video, 'cause I really enjoyed making it.

Ans I'm planning to make more videos in the future, so if you have any suggestions about places I should visit or things I should really try in Taiwan,

please let me know in the comments.

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Bye-bye! See you next time!