Famous Hotel Tainan

No.150-1 Second Section, Yongfu Road Tainan, Taiwan

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Tainan with the Wang's

A travel blog entry by trina-in-taipei

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... to Kaohsiung, but to my surprise, we went to check out some tourist sites!! I had asked Tara if she had ever been to the salt mountain at Tainan before on our way to Tainan. I’m not sure if we stopped there because I’d expressed some interest or if they had planned to go on their own, but we ended up there! It was one of the most touristy places ever, with a water park, ATV park, salt baths, pony rides, golf practice, swan peddle boats, ...

Dismantling the EZ

A travel blog entry by eskimo

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Monday 02 May 2011. A day of mixed emotions! Concern that the EZ was going to be dismantled for its trip across the Pacific (this would be the first time since its construction that it would be in bits); sadness that the Eastern hemisphere part of our journey was coming to an end, and excitement that we would be able to carry on our journey after all once we had the EZ across the Pacific.

We met Mr Liang, the engineering director, and Mr Wang, our ...

Weekend off in Tainan

A travel blog entry by eskimo

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... very imposing. Koxinga died only two years after driving out the Dutch and this ancestral shrine to him was built on the spot where a temple was originally planned. Again a very busy and popular place. We noticed hoardings announcing a 350th anniversary but we couldn’t decipher exactly what this was for! There is a more modern museum building to the side which houses more general exhibits from the period, eg pottery, swords, helmets, clothes, ...

Ho hum

A travel blog entry by gibbogirl

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... cheese! It was a small block for 150 and I was happy. Next we needed bread, so we started walking towards the train station, heading back "home". Along the way we found a huge mall, an Asian star signing things/taking photographs in the park, a couple of parks, and then a café! We went in and they had baguettes for 35 each so we bought one to take back with us. Along the ...

Disneyland of Taiwanese Temples

A travel blog entry by trina-in-taipei

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A day off and time for more exploring (still have to finish post about my first weekend - it was really good too)! I stopped at Family Mart and got a quick sushi bite to go. They have come up with an ingenious way to have fresh crisp nori on the ready made sushi here in the convenience stores. I discovered this the other day when I couldn't find anybody making anything without meat in it and I was starving. I decided to give the sushi in 7/11 ...