Category: Taiwan
The Natural Beauty of the Taroko Gorge in Taiwan
Who isn’t familiar with world news channel CNN? This network has a popular website channel called CNNgo, where it features destinations and tips for traveling in East and South East Asia. I got in touch with them a few weeks ago and now have an article featured in this popular TV channel. If you did [...]
5 Wallpapers From South East Asia
A few weeks ago I announced I would make your three favourite photos available in large format for you to download, but I have decided to give you 5 and share them as Wallpapers. These photos were taken during my recent travels in South East Asia and have been the ones with more requests. However, [...]
Beach Tennis: the Asia-Pacific Tour
Do you love tennis or beach tennis? Do you love to travel? Traveling is a lot of fun by itself, with new destinations and new people you meet being an eye opening experience that keeps you busy and in awe most of the time. Yet sometimes the trip itself can be made into an even [...]
Tainan, the former capital of Taiwan
Set in South West Taiwan Tainan is regarded as one of the oldest cities in the country, and its former name, Tayoan, has been claimed to be the source of the name Taiwan. During our trip around Taiwan we were eager to visit this city because of the excellent feedback we had received from three [...]
Taiwan has the friendliest people on Earth
Surprisingly but then not really Taiwan delivered all that we expected and much more. In only 3 weeks of traveling we drove through an impressive gorge in Taroko, surfed great waves in Kenting and experienced two typhoons and one earthquake. However best of all has been having the opportunity to meet Taiwanese people, whose charming, [...]
The World Games of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
I never knew that sports called kroftball or fistball existed, let alone were part of an international sporting event second only to the Olympic Games, bust sports like these and others like dragon canoeing and tug-of-war (?) were part of the International World Games of Kaohsiung. Over 2000 athletes from around the world had come [...]
