Tainan, Taiwan Travel Blogs

Day 1 in Taiwan
Sep 22, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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 city ...

To Taiwan
Sep 21, 2005 (15 photos)

... 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
Sep 23, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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
Sep 24, 2005

... 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
Apr 28, 2008 (7 photos)

... . 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
May 6, 2008 (7 photos)

... 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 ...

Last full day in Taiwan
May 8, 2008 (11 photos)

... 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!
Sep 29, 2009 (9 photos)

... nbsp;                    Tainan. Taiwan. Ainiin. Ollaan opittu vahingossa muutama sana kiinaa (kaksi sanaa jos nyt tarkkoja ollaan). Se on hammastyttavaa ottaen ...

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

... 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 temple ...

The THL
Apr 30, 2008 (13 photos)

... 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
Feb 25, 2008 (85 photos)

... 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 ich bin im ...

High Speed Rail
Jun 20, 2009 (9 photos)

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 ...

Moto adventure
Aug 18, 2006 (5 photos)

I wasn't expecting much from this industrial city but I was oh so wrong. We rented a scooter, and I have to admit that this was probably the most fun to drive in. It was only about a 45 min train ride north and on the way home so we stopped to see Weimar ...

A Motorcycle Built for Two Part II
Mar 29, 2005 (27 photos)

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 II.

2008 Geological Society of Taiwan Annual Congress
May 8, 2008 (8 photos)

... 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 those ...

Free time to explore Tainan City
May 5, 2008 (35 photos)

... 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
Apr 29, 2008 (45 photos)

... 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 ...

Tainan
Nov 22, 2007

Waypoint for map purposes.

Tainan
Nov 15, 2007 (12 photos)

 

The beginnings of Taiwan
May 4, 2007

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
Jul 2, 2004

Tainan

Drive down the coast of Taiwan
Jun 3, 2005

Nice drive in the rental. Stayed in a "Motel" Never realised the meaning of the word Motel in Taiwan before. Creepy

Tainan
Oct 28, 2008 (50 photos)

First couple pictures are of the view from the train station. Then we are heading towards a Confucius Temple. It is apparently one of the richest temples as it had many gifts from empires from the cing dynasty. We then went for a little walk down a ...

Das Taiwan ABC
May 5, 2008

... erhalten...und auf der Oberflaeche sieht man die vielen japanischen Restaurants, die Mangas und dergleichen, die das Bild von Taiwan stark praegen.   Karaoke/K-TV ist ein weiterer Trend aus Japan und eine sehr beliebte Beschaeftigung fuer Jung und ...

Tainan
Oct 28, 2008 (39 photos)

... bean jelly, which is one of the 10 gifts of Tainan. Just after we went to a gigantic vegetarian buffet. The food was really good. Then we went to the second largest night market in Taiwan. Afterwards we went to the hotel to get ready for our night out. 

FSJ - Freiwillig und Sozial ein Jahr arbeiten...
May 8, 2008

Das FSJ ist bald um und nun kann ich zurueckschauen auf fast ein Jahr Arbeit als Freiwilliger. Ich habe mich aus freien Stuecken dafuer entschieden, diesen Dienst zu machen und in einer sozialen Einrichtung Erfahrung zu sammeln.   Mit viel Elan ...

Tainan Nightlife
Oct 28, 2008 (18 photos)

The first two pictures are all of us in the car on our way to a club. The couple dancing shots with the skimpily clad women is when Madonna was playing. We found out later we were mostly there to see the Taiwanese Pop Sensation Y2J. Then we went to a ...

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!
Feb 6, 2008

... die Chinaboeller, die moeglichst viel Krach machen und das ist dann wie aus dem Bilderbuch. In der kommenden Woche wird dann ganz Taiwan auf Achse sein, denn das ist die Zeit, in der man moeglichst alle Verwandten und Verwandtes-Verwandten besucht um ...

Nate and Nikki's Birthday
Mar 7, 2009 (12 photos)

... boys and went to a club called The Orient. Oddly it was the same club Theresa and I went to back in October when we went to Tainan. We had a great time dancing for a couple hours then we all piled back on the bus to head back to Chiayi. It was alot of fun ...

Hier spukts! Aberglaube und Mystik
Apr 11, 2008

... Shirt und nen Hut tragen will. Manche Leute nehmen es sehr ernst, die meisten glauben wirklich an die gaengigen Mythen und es ist immer ein nettes Gespraechsthema, be idem die Leute mit leuchtenden Augen dabei sind :) das ist typisch Taiwan.