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Tainan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tainan, Taiwan
Day 1 in Taiwan
This is a top pick! ... had assumed the driver would announce each stop but obviously not. So he turned around and dropped us off on the way back to Tainan. Hutoubpi was really quite nice. A big lake and we spent a decent few hours just wandering around enjoying being out the ...
To Taiwan
This is a top pick! ... to sit and wait here for our connecting bus to Tainan. After about 20 minutes the first bus turned up, alas not bound for Tainan but curiously Taipei which I thought was weird as I assumed we were already there? We must have been the entertainment as the ...
Day 2 In Tainan
This is a top pick! ... of garlicky cabbage finished it off. Not only that but the beer was flowing and we easily polished off 12 huge bottles of Taiwan beer between us, with loads of "gambei"ing going on. Basically means cheers in English but I think the literal translation is ...
Day 3 In Tainan
This is a top pick! ... the beer to the punters. I thought it was a great idea and it is practiced in pretty much all the bar in Taiwan. Gorgeous girls wearing cheerleader outfit and knee high boots would definitely work in getting me to buy their beer! After this we headed ...
First night in Tainan
... . Dr Wu's enthusiasm is overwhelming. He is like the Energizer bunny. We went to the only late night "Western style" eatery in Tainan, but that actually meant that they had forks to eat eastern style food. I had "salad bar" which was a combination of ...
Presentations at the NCKU
... promptly at 8:30a, and surprise, surprise, I was late. Today is our presentation day at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan. It is a very short ride to the university, and even with my tardiness, we arrived with time to spare. Inside, we ...
Temples, markets but not Thai
... found ourselves on a very well organized, clean and cheap train heading north some 30 minutes (by express train) to Tainan, the oldest city in Taiwan. First settled by the Chinese in 1590, the Dutch quickly colonized the island and used Tainan as a base ...
Last full day in Taiwan
... and Alan returned to fetch us at 6:30p, and off we went to meet Dr Wu at Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut has one sit down restaurant in Tainan, and luckily it is near NCKU. It is on a corner, and is 3 stories tall. There is an area to pay on the first floor, ...
Betel Nut Berserk!
... nbsp; Tainan. Taiwan. Ainiin. Ollaan opittu vahingossa muutama sana kiinaa (kaksi sanaa jos nyt tarkkoja ollaan). Se on hammastyttavaa ottaen ...
High Speed Rail
This morning I met up with Katherine and her friend Luke and we took the Taiwan Highspeed Railway from Taipei to Tainan. All I can really remember about the Taiwan High Speed Rail is that houses were flying by in the window. I think there is a similar ...
A Motorcycle Built for Two
... I had our fill of outdoor fun, we decided to take a few days and drive the bikes up the West Coast of Taiwan to Taipei. The first night we stopped in Tainan, where we had dinner with Phil, an ex-Berlitz co-worker of mine, and visited the largest Buddhist ...
The THL
... we go to dinner. Dinner was just us, Dr Wu, Patrick, and Alan. That goodness, no formal dinner. We drove through Tainan City to a small eatery near a high school stadium. Complicating our trip was traffic from people attending a near by professional ...
Temple Overflow
... Taiwanesen sich nicht als eigenes Land (in letzter Zeit gibt es aber Tendenzen das zu aendern). In Tainan hat man dann auch gleich gemerkt, dass Taiwan einen unsicheren Status hat, alle 5 Minuten donnerte ein Abfangjaeger ueber die Stadt, ich dachte ...
Tainan
... ; I walked for hours and hours without finding anything that appealed to me when I finally found "the place": It was a traditional Tainan noodle shop that somehow looked special to me. So I sat down for a bowl of noodles and it was ...
A Motorcycle Built for Two Part II
These pictures correspond with the previous entry, but there were too many to display at once. So without further adieu, I bring you scenes from "A Motor Scooter Built for Two" Part ...
2008 Geological Society of Taiwan Annual Congress
... at the hotel at 8:30a, and we made the very short trip to National Cheng Kung University. Two weeks before leaving for Taiwan, I attended the Southeast Geologic Society of America meeting in Charlotte, so I am anxious to compare our geologic meetings to ...
Free time to explore Tainan City
... that we could walk up into and see the Tainan City from above. It was neat to learn some of the history behind Tainan City and Taiwan. We left the old fort at Anping and explored the market place. There were a lot of food vendors and merchants ...
First day in Tainan
... of this trip I'll be able to stomach eating a fish with the head still attached. After lunch we traveled to the Tainan Hydrologic Laboratory (THL) to get our presentations in order and transferred over the their computers. We were shown to the "Guest ...
The beginnings of Taiwan
So, this is where modern Taiwan started. Fujianese settlers set up town here in 1590 (ancient history in Taiwan terms), after which it was used by the Dutch as a trading base until they were overrun by the Ming Pretender Koxinga.It was the capital ...
Tainan
I headed back up the coast to Tainan, the oldest city in Taiwan and capital during imperial times. Its age and history gives the city a lot more character than the common grid format of other cities. The first day I had a wander around some of the more ...
Weekend off in Tainan
... , which ended the Ming Dynasty, the subsequent Ching Dynasty rebuilt his palace into the Great Matzu Temple, the earliest example in Taiwan. Its internal features are similar to Ta Guan-Ti Miao. All this culture is thirsty work! We found a delightful, ...
From the Philippines to Taiwan ROC
... that we were instructed to turn a little further west before being cleared to intercept the final approach course to Tainan airport. We could make out the spine of Taiwan over to our right with peaks rising to over 10,000 ft, but all our flying had taken ...
Dismantling the EZ
... to 12m scooters for a population of 23m in Taiwan), and when we hear an ice cream van jingle we will always chuckle….in Taiwan this heralds the arrival of a refuse truck! We shall be in the UK for a couple of weeks while the EZ traverses the ...
it's not like the Kyoto we've been to......
... was our overnight stop but mainly as a base to let us head a wee bit north, backtracking slightly to get to Tainan, one of the ancient cities in Taiwan. When you arrive now at the rail station there is nothing to indicate its an ancient city, quite the ...
Couch surfing in Tainan
... une deuxieme experience de couch surfing, celle-ci nettement moins bien que la premiere. Nous dormons chez deux francais qui sont venus a Tainan pour faire leur master et la fete. Leur appart est un bordel. C'est sale et les affaires trainent par terre. ...
Degustation de vin et de fromage
Nous avons une journee a Taipei pour nous. Sympa. Quincy est tellement dans le vin et le fromage qu'il nous ouvre une bouteille de Tempranillo qu'il complete avec un Grana Padano et des boules de viande. Nous pouvons contribuer le Gruyere qu'une danseuse ...
Mandy et barriere linguistique
... pas forcement tout de suite a l'estomac et le systeme digestif nous a montre de quoi il etait capable ces premiers jours a Taiwan.... Je realise a quel point le Chinois constitue une barriere de langue. Au debut, j'avais assez d'info nouvelles a ...
un peu trop de tout ca
Changer de lieu frequemment, le traffic, la langue et la culture tellement differente de la mienne plus dormir dans cette procherie est un peu trop....Quand nous visitons le plus grand marche de nuit de tout l'Asie avec ces essaims de scooters, un ...