Kenting, Taiwan Travel Blogs

Yeh - I reach Taiwan's Southern tip and Kenting
May 12, 2007 (61 photos)

Route: Jialeshui - Erluanpi ( most southern tip ) - Kenting Total Distance: 22 km Altitude up: 140m altitude down: 140m Do I really think I will ever get a good sleep? It's 1:00am and a group of four young guys comes into the ...

Resting a day in Kenting
Mar 22, 2008 (1 photos)

Total distance: 10 km I wake up at 5:30am, after only 3.5 hours sleep. I feel like being run over by a truck. No way to move on today. I pay my camping fee and have chat with the owner of the pace whom I know. So decide to move to the Katholic ...

Ship and bus to Kaoshiung and Kenting
Mar 21, 2008 (3 photos)

... ;passenger and finlly I get a seat.  At 1:00am I arrive at the final bus stop a few kilometers behind Kenting village. From there I walk another 3 km to the camping place I know from my previous walk. Formalities tomorrow, now  ...

Kenting is phenomenal
Feb 25, 2007

... staring at us from every direction pointing our the fact that our faces and hair are white and completely incomprehensible. Kenting is a beach town, lined with millions of food stands outside of all the shops that already there selling bathing suits, ...

Beauty is in the Eye of the Explorer
Nov 23, 2004 (24 photos)

... though, and as soon as our bus tour was over, Brad and I boarded another plane that would take us to Kenting on the southern tip of Taiwan, home to the most beautiful beaches that this New Jersey Yankee has ever seen. Kenting is a hopping beach town, and ...

A Motorcycle Built for Two
Mar 25, 2005 (23 photos)

... on the back of a motor scooter. After picking me up from the Green Island Ferry, Lucas, Nathan, and I headed down to Kenting, where we spent a week frolicking around the National Park there, arguably the most scenic location on the island. No matter how ...

A Trip Around Taiwan!
Jul 26, 2009 (47 photos)

... bridge, we headed south toward the southernmost tip of Taiwan. We were trying to circumnavigate the southernmost point before reaching Kenting, but we missed our turnoff and ended up taking a more direct route. Before taking the direct road, we navigated ...

South Coast Trip Day 2 and 3
Sep 1, 2006 (8 photos)

... coast hug the mountains and weave back, forth, up and down making the travel very uncomfortable. Needless to say we reached Kenting, one of the most Southerly towns on the island one and a half days after departure from Taipei. Upon arrival we quickly ...

A Beach Adventure
Jul 31, 2006 (9 photos)

My last weekend in Taiwan was spent at the most southern tip, Kenting, with the majority of the interns. The trip was relatively less stressful since it was an "ITRI-sponsored" trip and we had our very own chartered bus for the weekend. We left ITRI ...

Kenting photos
Mar 1, 2007 (5 photos)

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Kenting Road Trip
Oct 13, 2008 (18 photos)

... left the hotel room pretty consistently at the same time so no one awoke due to noise. We took a walk down the "Kenting Strip" and found a nice restaurant near the beach called "Buffalo Joe's" that served hamburgers and cold drinks.  It sort of ...

Beach, Jiffy Pop, & $25/night hotel
May 4, 2008

HE SAID: We picked up our rental car in Kaohsiung for our drive to Taiwan's most beautiful beach area, Kenting.  I was so happy that the car had GPS or we may have never made it out of the city.  Unfortunately the roads in the GPS system are ...

Last few days of the adventure
Dec 30, 2007

... mainland was easier and we soon found ourselves on a train back to Fanglio where we would catch the bus back to the Surf Shack just outside Kenting for our last few days here. On the 28th at the Shack, a hostel run by a great guy named Terry, we met a Evan ...

Destined to find adventure.
Dec 24, 2007

... . We met a taxi driver holding a sign up with my name on it. We were then whisked away to the Southern tip of Taiwan to Kenting where our hostel was. The drive took almost two hours and at our desitination we met Sammy a Texan who has been in Taiwan for ...

Kenting
Nov 19, 2007 (5 photos)

... I got back to Kaohsiung.   Today I took it slowly and took the bus to the almost southernmost point of Taiwan, to Kenting. This is a beach town. Tomorrow I will explore the area and see how beautiful its is. The temperature has been good the last ...

Day 7: Bus Tour with "Olei" (Mr. Lei) to Kenting
Jan 24, 2009 (15 photos)

... in China it is unprofessional to eat with your clients...alright.      When we finished, we drove into the Kenting National Forest Recreation Area and took a little nature walk.  The park used to be all under water so there were ...

Kenting
Jun 29, 2004

Kenting

Kenting or 墾丁
Nov 3, 2009

... that are prevalent at the beaches in the United States.  This is one of the top vacation destinations in Taiwan because of Kenting's laid back, easy going atmosphere.  The scenic area of Kenting has become more accessible these past few years ...

Kenting and Monkey Mountain
Oct 19, 2009 (5 photos)

... with sinks as a table. Not too appetizing! Yesterday we got back from a two day trip to a resort town called Kenting. It is like the Cancun of Taiwan. We had a blast boogie boarding, swimming in the waves and hanging out on the beach in the day and at ...

Spring Scream Dog
Apr 25, 2006

(For Photo links scroll to bottom) Every year there is a music festival over 10 days down in Kenting, a beach on the southern tip of the island. About 5 stages are set up in a national park, and you can camp nearby if you don't mind being baked like a ...

Kenting Day 2
Oct 19, 2008 (63 photos)

We woke up kinda late, had some breakfast and headed to the beach. Theresa and Shannon swam around for a bit. The three of us headed to Frog Rock Marine Park. First we walked around the Family Hostel which was huge and actually very nice looking. After ...

Happy New Year!!!
Jan 5, 2008 (25 photos)

... Popgedudel mit viel Gelaechter ins Mikro groelen...was mit den richigen Leuten aber auch durchaus Spass macht!   Angekommen in Kenting ging es jedenfalls schnurstraks ans Meer um ein bisschen zu planschen, Sonne zu tanken und mitten im "Winter" ...

Kenting - das Stand-Paradies an der Suedspitze
Sep 9, 2007 (21 photos)

... zurueckversetzt und wir hatten ein sauberes ruhiges Zimmer fuer uns. In der angeblich absoluten Party und Nightlife Hotspot Kenting schlenderten wir noch mitten im Gedraenge die Hauptrstrasse entlang, wo sich ein Stand an den anderen reiht und wo es ...

day four
Oct 1, 2006 (10 photos)

... to forget this horrible night at the train station. We finally get to Kenting after several buses and train. Kenting is located on the south peninsula of Taiwan. This place is amazing but and there is so much to see and do. Unfortunately, we only have ...

Living in aboriginal house set back in time
Oct 29, 2009 (140 photos)

29th to the morning of 31st we spent in Lao Chi Chia , about 45 minutes drive and 2.0 hours walk north-east of Fangliao. In the village Chi Chia, where the Paiwan Tribe from Lao Chi Jia was moved under KMT rule we meet ...

Kenting Day 1
Oct 19, 2008 (36 photos)

We had to take a train to Kaohsiung. And then a bus to Kenting. We spent some time wandering the streets. We ate at a place called Amy's. Later we walked around some more. We found "BAR" which was a bar in the back of a guy's truck on the side of the road. ...

Kenting Day 3
Oct 19, 2008 (12 photos)

We called it an early night, so we managed to get up early. Friday night when we were winding down from the bar, we had a couple drinks on come steps across from our hostel. By Sunday morning we realized that it was a Temple. I don't seem to be having the ...

Night market, special temple, calligraphy
Oct 28, 2009 (53 photos)

... a Japanese kick. The temple worshipers a Japanese general with the name General Tien Chung ( Chineswe adaption ) from the time of Taiwan's Japanese occupation. The name of the temple is Tung Long Kung. From a lady in the temple, a kind of Taoist priest ...

Kenting
Mar 15, 2008

Kenting and Southern tip of Taiwan.