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Visual Diaries

By Owain Mckimm February 4, 2021 Featured, Owain Mckimm, Taipei City 0 Comments
Taiwan’s cities are by their nature often overwhelming – sprawling, crowded, streets dense with neon signs, street vendors, noise and bustle. The work of British artist Tom Rook — a long-time resident of Taiwan – offers a different perspective on the...
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TAINAN – A Taiwan Southern Jewel

By Twelli January 28, 2021 Featured, Rick Charette, South Taiwan, Tainan City, Top Trips 0 Comments
Tainan, this island’s first urban center, provides the most powerful introduction to “yesteryear” Taiwan for a visiting traveler. It is filled to bursting with historic sites of national importance, and famed especially for its thick cluster of centuries-old temples. Now, the...
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Sleeping in Old TAINAN

By Rick Charette January 27, 2021 Featured, South, Tainan City 0 Comments
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...
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The Great TAINAN Cultural-Creative Bloom

By Rick Charette January 25, 2021 Featured, Rick Charette, South Taiwan, Tainan City 0 Comments
They’re everywhere, another one popping into view almost every time you turn a corner, whether on wandering exploratory perambulations along the city’s age-old high streets or on wonderful serendipity discovery dip-ins into its neighborhood webs of slim-width lanes and alleys. Energetic...
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FISHING HARBORS in Northern Taiwan

By Twelli December 4, 2020 Central Taiwan, East Taiwan, Featured, North Taiwan, South Taiwan 0 Comments
If you travel along Taiwan’s northern and northeastern coast you will come across many small fishing villages where you can watch fishermen at work and eat the fresh catch of the day in seafood restaurants. Whichever is true, archaeological excavations of...
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YANSHUI Beehive Rocket Festival in Tainan

By Steven Crook November 26, 2020 Featured, South Taiwan, Steven Crook, Tainan City 0 Comments
Once a year, a small town in southern Taiwan “explodes.” Or so it might seem to those fearless onlookers who subject themselves to the attack of thousands of mini rockets fired at random into the skies and into the crowds from...
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The ALISHAN and KENTING National Forest Recreation Areas

By Rick Charette November 13, 2020 Alishan National Scenic Area, Central Taiwan, Featured, Kenting National Park, Rick Charette, South Taiwan 0 Comments
Let’s head out on a virtual sample tour of two of Taiwan’s most popular and easily accessible national forest recreation areas, visited back to back. For this trip, which covered such large and far-flung destinations, we decided to set up a...
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ALISHAN and KENTING in One Go

By Twelli November 10, 2020 Alishan National Scenic Area, Central Taiwan, Featured, Kenting National Park, South Taiwan, Top Trips 0 Comments
Alishan and Kenting are two of the top-tourist draws in Taiwan. One is known for high mountains with coniferous forests, bamboo groves, tea plantations, indigenous villages, and a narrow-gauge alpine railway line, the other is the island’s most popular tropical beach...
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KEELUNG HARBOR and HEPING ISLAND

By Rick Charette November 2, 2020 Featured, Keelung City, North Taiwan, Rick Charette 0 Comments
All visitors, none excepted, are struck by the dramatic first images they are presented when arriving in this small port city on Taiwan’s north coast. In recent years more and more cruise operators have made the city a port of call,...
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LIGHTHOUSES Around Taiwan

By Twelli October 20, 2020 Featured, Islands, Matsu National Scenic Area, Penghu County, Taitung County 0 Comments
Here’s a collection of all lighthouses we have been to over the years and some we have yet to visit. We love lighthouses, because they are usually in scenic locations with sea view and you can always learn a thing or...
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FESTIVALS and EVENTS Around Taiwan

By Twelli October 16, 2020 Events, Featured, Festival, People 0 Comments
Note: The order of appearance of the following festivals and events is according to the time of the year when they usually occur. Dates can change however over time. We try to update the info frequently, but some of it might...
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Taiwan’s INDIGENOUS TRIBES

By Rick Charette October 12, 2020 Featured, Indigenous, People, Rick Charette 0 Comments
Taiwan’s indigenous tribes landed on the island’s shores long, long ago, crossing the open and often hostile sea on small craft the people of today might not consider “oceangoing.” These hardy and intrepid folk were the ancestors of today’s 16 officially...
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The HAKKA People

By Rick Charette October 8, 2020 Central Taiwan, East Taiwan, Featured, Hakka, North Taiwan, People, Rick Charette, South Taiwan 0 Comments
After more than four hundred years on the island, Taiwan’s Hakka people still exist as a solid and unified community. Their famous work ethic, love of education, and cultural, political, and other contributions have been central in the creation of the...
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Taiwan’s Amazing COASTAL ROCK FORMATIONS

By Twelli October 7, 2020 Dapeng Bay National Scenic Area, Featured, Kenting National Park, North Coast & Guanyinshan National Scenic Area, Penghu National Scenic Area 0 Comments
Taiwan, sitting on the Rim of Fire, is very young and immature in geological terms. It is being hurled up from the sea at a rapid rate as two tectonic plates, the Eurasian Plate and Philippine Sea Plate, jostle for position....
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Keelung GHOST FESTIVAL

By Twelli September 23, 2020 Featured, Keelung City, News/Events, North Taiwan 0 Comments
These celebrations are held all over Taiwan, but the largest and one of the most colorful takes place in Keelung, the Keelung Ghost Festival. It culminates at the small fishing port of Badouzi, where floating lanterns are launched onto the sea. Curiously,...
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Things to Do in CHIAYI COUNTY

By Twelli September 17, 2020 Chiayi County, Featured, South Taiwan, Things to do in 0 Comments
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Here is an overview of things to do and places to visit in Chiayi County in southwest Taiwan with links to articles we have published in the past. The two main areas of interest are Chiayi City and the Alishan National...
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