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Tag: Taiwan

  • Travelogue #11: See you again, Taiwan

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    Green Island was a very neat place to go, even if the weather wasn’t the most cooperative. I’ve generally had pretty decent luck with rain on this trip, but my first day on the island was covered in the stuff. I wasn’t able to do much except soak in the outdoor saltwater hot springs, which…

  • Travelogue #10: Southern Taiwan

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    Well, okay, mostly Tainan, but a little bit of Kaohsiung too. Plus I’m writing this while on my way to Green Island, a tropical island off the southeast coast which the weather report tells me will be experiencing rain showers all week (charming). So let’s just call it all “Southern Taiwan.” I was going to…

  • Travelogue #9: Tainan (and some thoughts on language)

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    Tainan doesn’t feel like the oldest city in Taiwan. I mean, it is the oldest city in Taiwan – the evidence is everywhere. Each of the city’s owners has left their mark in some way, from crumbling Dutch walls to Imperial Chinese temples to Japanese colonial amenities, and it’s delightfully easy to disappear down jumbled…

  • Travelogue #8: Taipei

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    It’s funny how much I took Taiwan for granted. Growing up, it was always a foreign place – one I had a connection to, sure, but still so fundamentally different it felt alien. After spending so much time in Malaysia, though, Taiwan suddenly feels comforting, like a home away from home. Part of it is…