Beitou Taipei

... world, do you know where the other two is located?) because of the earthquake. Finally, we went to Xin Beitou Hot Springs, a quick hop from the MRT in Taipei. The only other hot springs we went to was in Arenal, Costa Rica, which was not too ...

Happy Easter everyone! I celebrated today by going to the Beitou Hot Springs, just north of Taipei, with my friend Jenny and her boyfriend Jerome. Jenny and Jerome are both Americans who have Taiwanese mothers, and who have both recently moved back to ...

... across from Taipei Main Station. Over the next few days, I would love this city almost as much as Tokyo. Altho, Taipei and Taiwan are actually devoid of travellers and white people, I met a few cool people at the IYHA, including Rene from ...

... good, and also some of The Mummy 3, which had really bad acting in contrast! Things we’ve noticed a lot in Taipei include: Musical Dumper trucks – They play Clare de Lune as they arrive in order to tell people to bring out their ...

... . We enjoyed the walk on the boardwalk along the river as well. Lastly we headed to the hot spring resort of Beitou for a bit of R & R. You could smell the sulphur in the air as you disembarked the train to this ...

... get dropped off in vans and buses to eat here, no kiddin'. There is a branch in Arcadia, California. After lunch, we went to Taipei 101, tallest skyscraper (508 meter) in the world as of Friday, October 17th, 2003. There is a the 5-story mall at the ...

... and left the photography books until later part of our journey. We would not want to carry the heavy books around Taiwan. Anyway, we would be back in Taipei for our flight back to Singapore. It was getting late in the afternoon as we took the Metro ...

... in Taiwan, by-passing Korea (we'll visit you some other day, Seoul!) before entering China. When our flight touched down in Taipei, Taiwan late in the evening we decided to hop on a free shuttle to the nearby airport hotel. A few days earlier ...

... the MRT trains around and getting off at places and wandering aimlessly. We already went to Chiang Kai Shek memorial plaza, the Beitou hot spring area, and a wonderful night market. But, since we have been SO horribly tired and mentally foggy, it has ...

... a child in Taiwan. And did I mention I just drop them off with my cell phone and I've got 'free' babysitting for 1 hour? =P Beitou Hot Springs - A little counter-intuitive in 95+ heat but we took the kids to Beitou to enjoy the natural hot springs. This ...