Though an extremely busy tourist town, Lukang is not a place of big, or many, hotels. We take you on visits to two of its most popular places to overnight, a theme inn and a snug and homey renovated heritage residence....
A great 1,000-hectare swath of flat, quiet Tianwei Township in Changhua County is a vast country garden, home to a dense bloom of decorative flower, plant, and tree nurseries. What is called the Tianwei Highway Garden has become a prominent tourist...
The core of Lukang (Hanyu Pinyin spelling: Lugang), located just off Taiwan’s central-west coast, is perhaps Taiwan’s best imperial-days living museum, a repository of heritage architecture even more concentrated than that found in the acclaimed core of Tainan City to the...
Small-town travel has come into vogue in recent years in Taiwan, with travelers increasingly seeking out what’s in between the big cities and the top tourist draws. In central Taiwan there are numerous small towns of great character. Some, like Lugang,...
Visiting Changhua, Yuanlin, and Douliu Text: Steven Crook, Photos: Vision Head south of Taichung City in central Taiwan and you’ll come to Changhua and Yunlin counties. While not known as first-tier tourist hotspots, these counties indeed offer a number of intriguing places...
Lugang — An Old-Time Place that’s One of Taiwan’s Top Tourist Towns Text: Rick Charette; Photos: Vision tep into Lugang, treasure-house of old-time architecture, temple life, handicrafts, and snack delicacies, and you step back into a time when emperors still ruled. The town,...
