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    • TravelerA month in Southeast Asia
      Day 2

      Stopover in Taipei

      February 23, 2013 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

      First stop Taipei, Taiwan. We had a few days in the city as a stop over. We always try to take stop overs as opportunity and instead of just flying in and out of a city, we take a few days to explore. That way we also avoid very long flight journeys.Read more

    • TravelerSouth East Asia & New Zealand
      Day 60

      Taipei

      November 8, 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      We took a great free walking tour of Taipei, taking in Longshan Temple (every kind of ancestor here to grant your wishes), Bopiliao Historical Block, Ximen Red House, Presidential Office, 228 Peace Memorial Park and the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. We had a student take us around and she taught us about the history of Taiwan, about modern culture and (importantly) took us to a traditional ice-cream store. We spent the afternoon looking round a unique shopping centre selling handcrafted goods and workshops to make them.Read more

    • TravelerMarcel's Australien Trip
      Day 2

      Taipeh, Taiwan

      December 29, 2017 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

      Just arrived in Taipeh after some tough hours of flying without any proper sleep periods inbetween. Thank god that I was travelling with Marvin and Miriam, otherwise I would have got lost at the Airport.
      We pretty much chilled the whole day long at the Airport and had booked a sightseeing trip beforehand to the main landmarks (e.g. Taipeh 101, a big temple and the market).

      Ps. The smell of the street market was so disgusting that I was about to vomit and had to cover my nose all the time while we were walking around -> shocked      Read more

    • TravelerTaiwan
      Day 2

      Wandering the streets of a rainy Taipei

      September 26, 2018 in Taiwan ⋅ 🌧 25 °C

      I think my worst nightmare of sleeping in a dorm room is to have someone snore like a foghorn the whole night and guess what that just happened. If people are party animals and being annoying you always have the power to tell them to stop and worse case get the hostel to shut them up. However, if people are horrific snorers you are completely powerless. It's not actually their fault so I can't get angry but at the same time I wanted to die after the first 20 mins never mind the next 8 hours.

      Ah well, after a 20 min nap at 9am when they left I felt refreshed enough to get on with the day. Not sure if you've seen in the news but Japan is taking quite a hit from Typhoon Trami which is creating quite a lot of rain here in Taiwan. Rain coats on and off we go. Today we visited Bo'an Temple, Confusious Temple, Elephant Mountain (why we thought this was a good idea I will never know) and then to Taipei 101 the tallest tower in Taiwan. As the weather was pretty dreary it wasn't really worth going up but we did attempt to get in the highest Starbucks in the world. Well we attempted... Unfortunately we were rather unsuccessful as you have to book a day in advance, so instead we wandered round the mall tried a lot of pineapple cake tasters and then sat down to rest our feet with a Bubble Tea.

      For dinner we went to Tonghua Night Market and ate Stinky Tofu (very stinky but tasted fine) and pork dumpling noodle in a chilli sauce with a green bean/okra side dish. Happily full and a bit sick of the rain we headed back.      Read more

    • TravelerTaiwan
      Day 1

      Bye bye Singapore, Hello Country No. 8!

      September 25, 2018 in Taiwan ⋅ 🌧 30 °C

      5am...ring ring ring... Ahhhh!! I've not missed this feeling... Up we get for country number eight, Taiwan! Upon booking our trip we didn't have Taiwan on the cards but after finding very cheap flights it quickly became our top destination and after a bit more research we got more and more excited. Taiwan is an island with great food, beaches, mountains and affordable. Tick, tick, tick.

      Definitely got the hang of our airport efficiency, Grab taxi setup, breakfast (leftover biryani), packed, clothes laid out, all we had to do was roll out of bed, check-in, and find a seat. So, I'm not sure if other people play the game "Let's see what we can get with the leftover currency", but it is always a highlight of our early morning airport trips (we are pretty tired so need some excitement!). Today we were able to get two coffees (£1.50 total) and two mentos tubes (£1.10 total), bargain!! You couldn't even get that in a normal shop in the UK never mind an airport. Singapore is such an affordable, yet established country, we really love it here.

      Now on our flight waiting to jet off. Taipei here we come!

      Of course we do the majority of our research for Taipei on the plane over. First panic... after being in Singapore for a while I forgot that actually everything here will be in Mandarin. Well downloading Google translate offline will be the first job when I get WiFi! Many people have said 2 weeks is more than enough time but from reading more about it I don't think 3 weeks is enough, let's see.

      On arrival everything went pretty smoothly, immigration was straightforward, grabbed a Sim card, got out cash, jumped on the MRT, walked for a bit and checked into our hostel.

      The hostel is very modern inside and seems pretty quiet so far but it is the middle of the day. Our "room" is pretty cute. We booked a double bed in a dorm room. There are 4 doubles and 4 singles each with their own compartment. Of course ours is the tiny hatch in the corner on the bottom, we literally have to crawl in 😂 Inside it is super roomy though so overall its looking good.

      By the time we got in it was dinner time as we hadn't had lunch so we headed to one of the largest night markets in Taiwan, Shilin Night Market. It absolutely chucked it downWe tried Peppered Pork Bun (really yummy), Chargrilled Spring Onions Wrapped in Bacon (way too oniony), King Oyster Mushrooms in a lemon, pepper and seaweed rub(number 1 of the night), Long Xao Bao (tasty) and "Small cake wrapped in large cake" (the lady smashes up a crunchy sugary thing into a pancake and sprinkles coconut on but it was tasteless and a waste of calories). All in all a success 😊      Read more

    • Traveler2018 Taiwan Study Tour
      Day 7

      Day 2: Getting lost in Taipei 101

      January 8, 2018 in Taiwan ⋅ 🌧 18 °C

      半夜才睡觉让我们都非常累，所以我们今天从十一点开始。从旅馆我们去附近的《周家鲜肉馄饨》吃午饭。我们试了一些当地美食。它们都很好吃，我们特别喜欢海带和泡菜。吃完午饭后我们坐公车到台北一〇一。在那里我们参观购物中心，特别是诚品书店，并且买了手机电话卡。台北的手机电话卡非常好，因为只要一千元（大约四十五澳元），我们就有无限制的网络可以用！
      晚上我们去了有名的餐厅《鼎泰丰》。我们吃了小笼包: 鸡肉和猪肉、肉丝炒饭、凉拌云耳、黄豆芽、蒸饺，烧卖和豆沙包。我真喜欢在那里吃晚饭！吃完饭我们就回旅馆。经过这一天，我们又累了，但是曾老师说，我们得写完日记才能休息。

      After getting to sleep well after midnight we were all very tired so we started our day at 11. From the hotel we went to the Zhou Family dumpling restaurant to have lunch. We tried some of the local dishes. They were all very good, but we particularly enjoyed the Seaweed and Taiwanese Kim Chi. After we finished eating we took the bus to Taipei 101. There we visited the shopping centres and spent a long time in the Eslite Bookstore. We also bought our sim cards. Taipei's sim cards are really good, because you only need 1 thousand NTD or around $45 AUD for unlimited internet. In the evening we went to the famous restaurant, Ding Tai Feng. We had Pork and Chicken steamed buns, fried rice, mushroom salad, soy bean sprouts, dumplings and red bean buns. I really enjoyed having dinner there! Afterward we went back to the hotel, tired once again but still needing to write the diary.

      作者：凯尔 Written by Kyle      Read more

    • The VacationistTaiwan July 2017
      Day 7

      Taipei

      July 30, 2017 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      So this morning, we woke up at 5.00am in hopes of having a traditional Taiwanese breakfast near the Shandao Temple area. Good news: No more typhoon. Bad news: The shop was closed. So we headed off to Taipei main station to catch our bullet train to Kaohsiung due to depart at 7.30am. More bad news though. Bullet trains are not running before 12pm. Our flight from Kaohsiung to Kuala Lumpur was still on time due to take off at 1.30pm. There was no way we were going to make it back on time.

      So, we reorganized. We bought flight tickets from Taipei airport to KL. Buying them last minute, we considered ourselves lucky as there were still seats available, but the price was on the high side. It was either going back or being stuck here. Not that thats a bad thing but we had work the next day.

      So off we went to Taoyung International Airport and boarded our airplane which departed at 1.30pm. We reached KL at 6.30pm. We later found out that there was a second typhoon by the name of Haitang that struck Taiwan that day. We considered ourselves fortunate to have missed that one.

      Overall, a good trip that ended with a bang. Might go back to Taiwan again in the future, but maybe not typhoon season next time.      Read more

    • The VacationistTaiwan July 2017
      Day 6

      Taipei

      July 29, 2017 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      This capital is pretty much like every other capital there is - crowds of people, busy streets, skyscrappers. But we also discovered a little bit more than that. We went to Taipei 101 in the morning which was the tallest building once upon a time. The observertory is on the 89th floor. From there, the entire city can be seen. Though unlucky for us, it was a rather cloudy day.
      In the afternoon, we headed for Elephant Hill. It was a long hike up. Took us a little less than an hour. Of course, it wouldn't have been that long if not for the rain, wind and our achey overworked legs. It was a rather pretty trail with lots of lavenders growing at the sides. From there, Taipei 101 can be seen clearly. We didn't spend much time there due to the worsening weather.
      By nightfall, the weather had gotten worse. We were planning to go to the Shilin Night Market, but when we reached Jiantan station we aborted that mission due to the strong winds and heavy rains. It just didn't seem safe. Only then I found out that Typhoon Nesat has been messing around with us. Hopefully, our train back to Kaohsiung and flight back to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow will be on schedule.      Read more

    • TravelerAustauschsemester in Singapur
      Day 62

      Höher geht's hier nicht

      June 11, 2017 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      • Maailman nopeimmalla hissillä 382 metrin korkeuteen •

      Wenn man schon einmal in Taipeh ist, muss man sich natürlich auch mal zum Taipei 101 begeben. Der für seine asiatische Architektur bekannte Wolkenkratzer war bis 2008 das höchste Gebäude der Welt. Selbstklärend, dass die Aussicht auf die Stadt bei Nacht einfach fabelhaft war. Zu so später Stunde war das Aussichtsstockwerk in 382 Metern Höhe, auf welches man übrigens im schnellsten Fahrstuhl der Welt hochfährt, angenehm leer und man konnte die Aussicht ganz entspannt genießen. Interessant ist auch die über mehere Stockwerke hängende vergoldete Kugel, welche im Falle von Stürmen oder Erdbeben einen Schwingungsausgleich für das flexible Gebäude gewährleisten soll.

      In den unteren 5 Stockwerken vom Taipei 101 finden sich übrigens Shoppingmöglichkeiten der teuersten Marken und leckere Gastronomie. Besonders beliebt ist hier das Restaurant Din Tai Fung, welches bei unserem Eintreffen eine Wartezeit von 70 Minuten vorhersagte. Dies war ein Grund mehr, dass wir uns gleich mal eine Wartenummer gezogen haben, und uns in der Wartezeit schon einmal einen Reisburger vom asiatischen Fast-Food-Restaurant Mosburger holten. Din Tai Fung war seine Wartezeit wert: für gerade einmal 15,50€ konnten wir zusammen vier Gerichte - von Teigtaschen bis Nudeln - essen, und das bei so freundlicher Bedienung wie im Nobelrestaurant.      Read more

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    • Caroline SunshineHong Kong Student Exchange
      Day 35

      Taipei

      October 8, 2014 in Taiwan ⋅ 🌬 25 °C

      My first trip out of Hong Kong to see more of Asia - together with a group of other international students, we visited the capital city of Taiwan. It was a great trip, i found out a lot about what i liked and did not like to do during travelling with friends, and i learned a lot about how different each Asian culture could be.. A first taste to what was awaiting me the coming year when i would travel more and more more around Asia!!!Read more

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