Country Info
- Taipei
- Capital
- New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
- Currency
- 22,370,461
- Population
- TW
- Country Code
Taipei Slideshow
Top Hotels in Taipei
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Kent Hotel Taipei
1 review -
Miyi Hotel Taipei
28 reviews
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Royal Palace Hotel Taipei
42 reviews
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Hotel New Asia Taipei
1 review -
An Ho Hotel Taipei
1 review
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Cai She Hotel Taipei
2 reviews
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Feeling Hotel Taipei
8 reviews
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Hansome Business Hotel Taipei
25 reviews
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Neijiang Hotel Taipei
27 reviews
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The Landis Resort Yangmingshan Taipei
22 reviews -
Friends Hotel-Yo Pin Regency Taipei
Taipei
Travel Blogs from Taipei, Taiwan
Dragon Boat Festival
It sounds intense...Dragons: totally intense; boats: not very intense, but if there was a dragon in a boat with you or on a boat it would be. The Dragon Boat festival takes place on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese Lunar calendar. It's to ...
The Wrath of Typhoon Aere
... wind of the latest typhoon that has taken Taiwan by storm. For the past two days, Aere has pummeled the entire island, including Taipei, with the strongest winds and heaviest rains that this New Jersey Yankee has ever seen. For me that meant two days of ...
Sally Collects Sea Shells on the Sea Shore
... Sea Shore I've always dreamed of swimming in the clear-blue water that one usually sees in Club Med commercials, and when I came to Taiwan, I never expected that my dream would be realized. Not only did I swim in it; I snorkeled, bathed, and sort of ...
Taipei Days and Nights
... to the Chiang Khai Shek Memorial Hall (*current news note - they just announced they will change it to the Taiwan Democracy Hall) which is a geourgeous pavilion of scultured gardens and gold fish-filled ponds with two massive traditional Chinese-style ...
Maokong Gondola...
... if you knew how. We just used it as a photo opportunity. We also passed a pack McDonalds and the entrance to the Taipei Zoo. I think I will save the zoo until I get back in two weeks. If you looked across the street, you could see ...
bbq tofu
... hard imagine that such a small country would have the resources, technology, etc to possess the worldest tallest building. taipei itself has a little over 2 million people and the overall land area of taiwan is about the size of ...
Christmas Eve showdown
It is currently 12.30 am in Wanli and my fingers are just itching to do some bloggin! (Internet's been down for two days so I couldn't update on what's been happening over Christmas). Due to time constraints I will just write about the Christmas Eve ...
Taipei
... Aside from that, my flight got changed and I was able to leave to Bangkok about three hours early. I even was able to contact Phil (because of the Internet) so he could come pick me early. Drug Trafficking in Taiwan is punishable by ...
china air 695, service from taipei to bangkok
while sitting on the plane waiting to take off for bangkok, I sat back and watched a video mantage (sp?) of scenes from North Pole, Alaska, to the tune of "I'll be home for Christmas." I'm pretty sure they wanted to see me cry. But ...
What Exactly is an Animanizoid?
Well, I'm still plugging along over here in South-East Asia, trying to balance work and pleasure. Since this week was rather heavy on the former and slim on the latter, I have no travels or adventures to report. But I do have a few little stories that ...
Summer holiday...
... his selling technique, especially when dealing with English folk... I then ventured over to the world's tallest building, namely the Taipei 101. It absolutely dwarfs everything else around, and the bamboo-like structure was just begging to be climbed, so ...
(Almost) got stalked by dodgy guys on the way home
... time, got stared at (and waved at) by the cute, adorable children, dinner at an English Camp somewhere in Taipei County. Today Weather: B-E-AUTIFUL! Perfect for sightseeing Mood: less tired, very content with today's shopping :) What ...
Yangmingshan National Park
... , which had confused immensely. You hear English and look around but can’t spot anyone who would be using it! More notes from Taipei: 8. The number of mopeds here is astonishing. It feels like there are more than Kuala Lumpur but it may just be that ...
The Wrath of Typhoon Mindulle
... left 21 people dead and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage in the island's southeastern cities. The typhoon brought Taiwan its worst flooding in 25 years, and many areas in the south have been declared National Disaster Areas. People are ...
Natural Disaster Update
... students had flooding in her apartment, but that's the only real damage I heard about. Aside from the occasional natural disaster, the weather continues to be warm during the day, cool at night, and clear. Fall is truly a wonderful season in ...
Erm ... I forget!
... you with shopping details as you've all done it before. Needless to say that there is some good shopping to be done in Taipei. Around 6 all the vendors started appearing out of thin air. It was a mixture of a gastronomic feast and a comedy show, ...
Scooting around Taipei
... Asia but instead, I ended up spending more time in and out of Taipei which turned out to be a great idea. Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is a great little country that doesn't receive as much tourism as nearby places such as Japan or mainland China but ...
TAIWAN!!!!
... work actively to promote international recognition of Taiwan as an independent country in world organizations, and push for strengthening Taiwan’s “defense military”. Hence, whenever the KMT is ruling, relations with China are improved, ...
A brief abridgement of the weeks before...
... second week I got a job teaching English to children whose ages range from six to twelve. The most interesting aspect about teaching in Taiwan is that I've realized children are the same world-wide. You have the good kids and the bad kids. You have the ...
Back to Taipei
... in Chinese. After that it was a piece of cake getting to the station as everybody here can read Chinese. I arrived in Taipei at 13:00, bought a ticket for the High Speed Rail (HSR) train for my trip to Tainan tomorrow (from a vending machine ...
Fun, fun, fun in Taiwan!
Taipei: It was scary arriving in Taipei in Taiwan as it was my first time ever in Asia.....plus the fact that I hadn't bothered reading up on this country whatsoever. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Taiwan is, in fact, a very prosperous ...
Taipei 101
... 89th floor. Needless to say, the view was breathtaking. Finally, as the sun disappeared behind the mountains surrounding the city, the lights of Taipei blinked into life. Tomorrow we leave for the Southern reaches of Taiwan, stay tuned for our ...
The Martyr's Shrine and Sun Yatsen Memorial
... is the Arlington National Cemetery of Taiwan. It holds the ashes of thousands of soldiers who have died in various wars throughout Taiwan's history and serves as a memorial to all those who have died defending their homeland. It is a very peaceful and ...
...and we're off...
... . we didn't have that exhaustive post flight feeling and we actually slept pretty well. well, after the flight, we landed in Taipei, Taiwan with about 9 hours to burn. after some struggle figuring out what to do, we boarded a bus into the city... we ...
The Unfinished Europe
... (馬其頓): Somewhat awkwardly sandwiched between Bulgaria and Albania. This country chose to build a diplomatic relationship with Taiwan and then later dumped us. Okay, I know they were practically forced at knife point by China. But I ...
Too much turbulence?
... 10.09 Taipei. Taiwan. Pikainen koukkaus Taipein kautta. Lempifutisjoukkueeni mukaan nimetty hurrikaani "Parma" oli armeliaasti saastanyt Manilan ja ...
A Wonderful City
... CAD each to get in!!! Phew!...good thing we got that student discount!!...otherwise we would have paid $2 each...lol. Right beside the Taipei zoo is the Maokong Gondola (4030 meters long!!...google it). We took it right to the top of the mountain.,.where ...
Pandas and Skyscrapers and Bubble tea, Oh my!
... looked like piano keys for our nephew. We ended the evening back at the bar in our hotel. Our nephew had mentioned that Taiwan wasn't much of a drinking culture (this was completely opposite from what we had observed in Korea, where soju was ...
Xinsheng & Lin An Family Home
We took the MRT up to the Lin An Family home. It was built in the Ching Dynasty but the whole place had been moved from it's original location. Now it sits next to an overpass and planes fly over head every 30 minutes. A great location change if you ask ...
Good News and Bad News
Hello Everyone. A quick update from Taipei. First, the good news. The good news is that Berlitz Taiwan has been doing so well in Taipei, that it is opening up another language center. The new language center will be in the section of Taipei called ...