Tainan City, born four centuries ago, is Taiwan’s most illustrious repository of important heritage sites. Here is a quartet of attractions that have been born – perhaps “reborn” is the better word – within the past two decades, historical sites that...
In Tainan, the small cultural-creative hotels, inns, hostels, and homestays found snuggled away within its close-knit community grids of side lanes and alleys do double-duty as time-travel devices. Located in old architecture lovingly restored, each has a highly individual backstory and...
A rural district in the far north of Tainan City in southwestern Taiwan, the town of Yanshui is mainly known for one particular event, the Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival. For the local faithful this is an important religious ritual; for the...
