The fare of Taiwan's indigenous people is unlike anything else you’ll experience here or anywhere else you explore while on your globe-trekking travels. Taiwan’s tribal specialties come to big-city Taipei…
Travel in TaiwanOctober 13, 2023
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Travel in TaiwanOctober 12, 2023
Thirty-three kilometers off the southeast coast, yet worlds away, this former political-prison island is the perfect escape from mainland Taiwan. The island is circled by a 17km road that packs…
Travel in TaiwanOctober 11, 2023
In this file we take you along the Pacific shore in friendly, easy-going Hualien County, moving south to north from Shitiping (“Stone Steps Platform”) to Qixingtan (“Seven Star Lake”) just…
Travel in TaiwanOctober 6, 2023
For the tourist the Eastern Taiwan region is a monumental nature adventure park. “Hidden away” from Taiwan’s heavily populated north end and west side by the thick Central Mountain Range,…
Travel in TaiwanOctober 5, 2023
Though the Penghu Islands are just a short hour-less hop by plane from mainland Taiwan, almost no visitors are day-trippers. Serving the constantly arriving flocks of revelers is an ever-growing…
Travel in TaiwanAugust 4, 2023
Ask any sweet-toothed visitor to Taiwan about local traditional-style pastries and they will surely rhapsodize about pineapple cakes. Delve a little deeper and you will discover a whole industry catering…
Travel in TaiwanMarch 2, 2023
Rice is by far Taiwan's most important food crop. So important in fact, that roughly half of the country's arable land is given over to cultivating it. And for good…
Travel in TaiwanOctober 21, 2022
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Travel in TaiwanAugust 9, 2022
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