I skipped a day so I want to add some video of the High Speed Rail. We traveled from Taipei to Taichung on the HSR. We traveled on three trains and it took us right to our hotel in Taichung. Can't say enough about how amazing it is to be able to travel across this country without ever getting in a car.

We traveled from our hotel in Taipei to the Taipei main station on the light rail. From there we got on the HSR to travel to a stop outside Taichung. Once at the transfer station we got onto a local train that travels back and forth from the transfer station to the Historic Taichung Train Station.

The HSR travels at a speed of 294 km/h which is about 182 mph. The ride is smooth and it took us about 45 minutes to travel from Taipei to Taichung.

The Taipei Main Station was filled with people. We had time to kill so we sat and just watched people coming and going. Amazing the number of people that run through that station.