Taiwan Formosa – Beautiful Island
Posted September 5, 2008 – 6:42 pm in: Taiwan
Always wanted to have a travel blog to post up the little things I find when traveling around. This is my third time to Taiwan the homeland of my fiance Tina and we’re back here again for some serious wedding preparations and pre-wedding occasions.
This time I’m here by myself for the first 2 days while Tina is away in Hong Kong for work. So I’m trying to get out and do something while she’s not here.
I don’t speak too much Mandarin/Hokkien so we’ll see how successful that is.
Taiwan is a great place to visit and one a lot of people never really consider unless you know someone there already. I recommend it for a few reasons. Firstly the people are friendly as and many will make a good effort to speak English for you.
Secondly, the food is amazing. Take all the best parts of Chinese and Japanese food and add Taiwans own unique flavours and you have some of the best food world wide.
Third, the country is beautiful, driving through the central mountain range I’m reminded of New Zealand’s southern island but with the upside of being warmer more of the time.
One more thing to note on this list is that it’s a bargain traveller’s goldmine. You can get by on a relatively small amount of cash here as long as you are prepared to eat outside your fancy hotel and point and nod at foods you like a lot. Taipei, the capital city, is the most expensive place to be but heading south on the new HSR bullet train to Taichung will see prices fall overall for basic foods etc.
If you’re into photography Taiwan is a great place to shop, Taipei has a district entirely devoted to cameras and their accessories, both film and digital.
Anyway i’ll save some more of this rant for later. Til then check out this nice video of shots of Taiwan that I didn’t take.
Tags: Taiwan, Travel
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