Taiwan
Dongxing

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    • Day 56

      Central Tainan

      November 4, 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

      Explored central Tainan by foot on one of the signposted trails, taking in, Koxingas shrine/temple, Confucius temple, the city wall, Hayabi dept store (with the first elevator in Taiwan), First bank, cute street art, the museum of modern art and several temples. In the afternoon, we took the train to Taichung. The sun was setting as we arrived but we had time to explore the illuminated river (disappointing), painted animation lane, the martial arts centre (Japanese style) and the night market for epic hotpot.Read more

    • Day 13

      Tainan

      November 30, 2017 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

      Heute sind wir in der Früh mit Bus und Zug nach Tainan gefahren. Dort angekommen haben wir unsere Rucksäcke ins Hostel gebracht konnten aber noch nicht in unser Zimmer. Also sind wir ein bisschen durch die Straßen gelaufen auf der Suche nach Essen. Wir haben dann auch ein typisches Restaurant gefunden, dort hat es mir dann aber leider nicht geschmeckt, aber egal.
      Danach sind wir in den großen Konfuzius Tempel gegangen und auf dem Rückweg habe ich noch fritiertes Hühnchen gegessen.
      Dann eine kurze Pause im Hostel.
      Gegen 5 sind wir dann zu einer alten Lagerhalle gefahren, die von Bäumen eingewachsen ist, sehr eindrucksvoll.
      Dann nochmal Hühnchen essen.
      Abends war dann ein großes Fest in ganz Tainan, wir wissen aber nicht welches.
      Noch ein bisschen durch Tainans älteste Straße spazieren und zurück ins Hostel.
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    • Day 10

      Tainan

      October 4, 2018 in Taiwan ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

      Sometimes it's the little things you miss, a soft towel, a shower that is actually warm and doesn't constantly go cold every 30 secs, a bed that you can lie on without thinking why am I lying on bricks. Well this hotel ticked all the boxes and we even got a free caramel macchiato in the morning from their coffee shop 😊

      Today we visited the Anping District which was the original ancient capital of Taiwan during the imperial times. For brunch we ate milk fish skin and fish ball soup and battered shrimp. We then walked along the canal to Anping Fort. Anping Fort, also known as Zeelandia, was excavated in the 17th century by the Dutch as a sea port for sea trading across South East Asia. Due to another typhoon heading towards Japan the winds were very strong, but luckily it stayed sunny! We then visited Anping Tree House, which was originally the warehouse of Tait & Co. During the Japanese Occupation it was the office and warehouse of the Japan Salt Company. After World War II, the salt industry in Anping declined, and this area was abandoned. After about 70 years of abandonment the site is now encased in Banyan Trees. Its absolutely incredible how these trees grow!

      The late afternoon was spent visiting Shennong Street, a hipster coffee street, various temples and then finishing off in Tainan Wu Garden listening to a guy playing complex classical music on his recorder - he actually made the recorder look like a cool instrument!

      In the evening we walked to Garden Night Market and tried coffin bread, a chowder in a deep fried bread (unexpectedly sweet!), scallion pancake (yum!), a hell of a lot of fried chicken and brown sugar bubble tea (honestly this stuff is incredible, obviously super bad for you but amazing!). Before coming to Taiwan I was never a fan of bubble tea but actually when you add a tonne of treacle and mask the bitter green tea flavour it's amazing! 😂

      Annoyingly buses are pretty unreliable in Tainan so we had to walk back, luckily it was still earlish.

      The rest of the evening was spent attempting to plan our next step, but with the weather constantly changing this is now becoming a bit of a chore. We have about 12 days left and have still not done any real hiking so we are thinking of heading northwards to try and get some good weather. We've decided to go to a place called Dulan which is on the south east coast, in hope for some OK weather. Let's see.
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    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Dongxing Village, Dongxing, 東興里

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