Backpacking in Taiwan: Kaohsiung or Cow Shung
So its pronounced “cow shung” (and spelt Kaohsiung ) and so it is the second biggest city on the island of Taiwan. It was the fourth city Natalja, Neil and I visited properly on our…
Orange Army! Tainan Lions 1-3 LA Kaohsiung New Bears
Back in 2007, I went to watch Baseball for the first time. It was never a sport that would interest me totally and really as you get older in life you just like to experience…
Backpacking in Taiwan: Touring Lotus Lake, Kaohsiung
“Haven’t you noticed I ate the Lotus?” – R.E.M. OK its hardly gonna shoot at you out of the blue, and its doubtful that many readers of this blog will read it consistently enough to…
Backpacking in Taiwan: South China Seas and Motorcycling Through Tainan City
Two firsts happened for me on the same day, here in Taiwan and on my first few days on this beautiful island. One is I first swam in the South China Seas. Two is I…
Backpacking in Taiwan: Tainan City By Night…
OK, so Tainan City was the former capital of Formosa. Formosa was the former name for Taiwan. This city was not one I’d ever heard of, ever dreamed of seeing or would ever have believed…
Backpacking in Taiwan: Anping
After backpacking through Chiayi it was time to head south and check out all the big/tourist places down there – Tainan, Kaohsuing, Kenting, Eluanbi which we’ve done in the last week or so. Neil and…
Backpacking in Taiwan: Chiayi City!
After spending our first 24 hours in Taiwan getting buses, acclimatising and checking out the city of Shinying, it was time to head north on the train to the larger city of Chiayi. It’s pronounced…
Backpacking in Shinying/ Sianjing/ Shinjing/ Xinying, Taiwan
Ask an average traveller where Shinying is and they probably won’t have a clue. Spelt in many different ways by different people, I’m not even sure if my spelling would be understood by the locals…
Arrival in Taiwan: “Hong Kong is present, Taipei awakes…all talk of circadian rhythms”
It was fitting and sentimental that I listened to REM’s 1998 hit “Daysleeper” as our aeroplane soared through misty smoky skies and landed on the island of Taiwan. The band I had forgotten about suddenly…
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