Taipei International Flora Expo

One of the biggest tourist attractions in Taipei right now is the International Flora Expo. The Expo, presented by the Taiwan government has been open since November and is projected to attract over 8 million people before it closes on April 25th. On Friday, our Rotarian hosts treated us to a VIP tour, which helped us avoid the lines and the other 68,000 people that were in the Expo at the same time. Because the Expo is so large, we did not have a chance to visit the entire thing but here are some highlights of our visit.

Team at the entrance to the Flora Expo

Yu Yu, our tour guide showing us what bookshelves will look like in the future. By growing your own lettuce under natural sunlight that is brought in through special pipes from your roof, you'll be able to have dinner without leaving the couch!

Expo entourage

Orchids

Team inside the "Green" Pavilion, which was an entire building made from recycled bottles. Look close at the wall behind us to see the individual bottles. 

A topiary whale with the Rotary International logo made our of flowers in the background. 

Rotary International is one of the presenting partners of the Flora Expo.

2011 is the year of the rabbit in Taiwan.  This artist sculpted a bonzai tree in the shape of a rabbit as it grew. Can you see him??