Coffee on top of Taipei 101

My friend introduced me to Simple Kaffa in Taipei. The brand was established by Wu after he won the World Barista Championship in 2016. Simple Kaffa offers gourmet coffee beans from rare source in small batches. Most interestingly, it serves coffee that is grown locally in Taiwan.

Simple Kaffa has multiple locations, and this one - Simple Kaffa Sola - is on the 88th floor of Taipei 101. To reach here, you will enter Taipei 101 from the office entrance (not the shopping mall side) and talk to the reception desk.

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Matanuska Glacier

A guided tour and the hosts take you to and from the glacier with a snowmobile-driven sled. In winter you can walk on icy surface when Matanuska Glacier is frozen. I brought trekking poles but actually it was not needed because they give ice cleats to everyone. You can hear the cracking sound from the glacier movement when the surrounding is quite. You can also see that huge ice blocks being pushed upwards by the glacier. You read about this from your geography textbook but standing on a glacieris a totally different level of experience.

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With the advance of phone camera technology, anyone can easily take good quality pictures. I have been posting photos on Instagram for years but it gets less and less frequent recently. One drawback of posting on the social media site is that the service can become obsolete one day, eventually. Posting on website may not be as easy as posting on Instagram, but I can try. Maybe there is a way to make it easier.

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My fisrt ever photo of Milky Way was captured using an iPhone 12 Pro Max. Bryce Canyon National Park is one of the International Dark Sky location. I attended a ranger hosted stargazing program and luckily the sky was very clear and dark. It was very challenging to shoot with a long exposure time and I did not have a tripod with me. I had to hold the phone against a car to stablize it. The photo turns out quite satisfactory.

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