Category Archives: Taiwan
Pingxi Lantern Festival
Day 3: Today was the world-famous Pingxi Lantern Festival. It wasn’t until nightfall, but getting there involved leaving our place by 10am, taking the subway to a shuttle, and going on an hour-long ride along mountain roads to Pingxi. We
Pingxi Lantern Festival
Day 3: Today was the world-famous Pingxi Lantern Festival. It wasn’t until nightfall, but getting there involved leaving our place by 10am, taking the subway to a shuttle, and going on an hour-long ride along mountain roads to Pingxi. We
Day 2: Taipei
The National Palace was never a palace, ie., no emperor or head of state ever lived there. It was designed specifically to be a museum, to display the nearly 680,000 artifacts once housed in the Forbidden City in Beijing. According
Day 2: Taipei
The National Palace was never a palace, ie., no emperor or head of state ever lived there. It was designed specifically to be a museum, to display the nearly 680,000 artifacts once housed in the Forbidden City in Beijing. According
Day 1: Taipei
Fortunately, after the 14-hour flight, I was not met at TPE airport by that infamous Chinese traveler Jet Lag, but by dashing Taiwanese denizen Wei-Chih. Wei had disregarded my insistence that he needn’t meet me at the airport, which is
Day 1: Taipei
Fortunately, after the 14-hour flight, I was not met at TPE airport by that infamous Chinese traveler Jet Lag, but by dashing Taiwanese denizen Wei-Chih. Wei had disregarded my insistence that he needn’t meet me at the airport, which is
My China Year 