2022 Jan./Feb. Archives - Travel in Taiwan

It Can Get Noisy

Travel in Taiwan — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 09:29:18 +0000

If you want to explore the street food scene of Taiwan, head to a night market. If you want to immerse yourself in the daily practical food-related routines of the local people, visit a traditional day market.

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Drinking Tea in Style

Travel in Taiwan — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 08:30:20 +0000

For a country seemingly obsessed with tea-drinking, it’s surprising to learn that until the 1970s most of the tea produced in Taiwan was exported. Coffee shops tend to be trendier than artisanal teahouses these days, but local tea aficionados have been trying to change that by opening more relaxed yet stylish establishments.

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A Date with the Divine

Travel in Taiwan — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 07:23:08 +0000

With an almost endless parade of kaleidoscopic temples and folk festivals, it’s a safe bet to say that every visitor to Taiwan has at least one religious experience on his or her bucket list. But for love-seeking sightseers, there’s a single place that deserves top billing: Taipei Xiahai City God Temple in the capital’s Dadaocheng neighborhood.

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Chiayi Slow Time, Chiayi Fun Time

Travel in Taiwan — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 06:19:20 +0000

Chiayi City's younger generation is busy taking old residences and shops, renovating them, and launching attractive cultural-creative adventures. In this article we visit two spots to overnight that enjoy top online public-polling results – one hostel, one homestay. Both are in the character-deep old quarter before Chiayi Railway Station and its yards. We also provide a section on recommended historical/cultural sites within walking distance.

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Northern ALISHAN

Travel in Taiwan — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 05:39:02 +0000

The magnificent Alishan National Scenic Area, known for iconic Taiwan sunrises, narrow-gauge alpine railway, and “seas of clouds,” is divided into three main corridors, north, central, and south. The northern corridor is perhaps the quietest of the three, a region of steep-slope tea plantations, bamboo forest, scenic heritage trails, soaring waterfalls, indigenous-culture experiences, and much beyond.

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The Alishan Forest Railway

Travel in Taiwan — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 07:38:14 +0000

Constructed over a century ago, the narrow-gauge Alishan Forest Railway branch line, today plied by tourist trains, is one of just three steep-gradient alpine railways on the globe. The others are also located in exotic locations off the beaten tracks: a line in India that runs through the Darjeeling tea-plantation region and one in Chile-Argentina that traverses the high Andes.

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Chiayi City

Travel in Taiwan — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:10:58 +0000

Chiayi is an old city sitting in the middle of the southwest plains with a pleasingly relaxed pace. It is filled with nuggets awaiting the history spelunker, more and more of its architectural nuggets now turned into places of trendy cultural-creative enterprise, joining the legion of friendly old-time shops and eateries.

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