Taipei Travel Blogs

After the trauma of watching Hostel Saturday night, I still slept like a baby. We had a lot to do and not much time to do it in on Sunday morning. I needed to be at the airport around 2 in the afternoon for my flight to Kuala Lumpur, so I was up early to pack my bag. Our plans for the day included …

I am so far behind on getting stuff posted!!!  Arrrrrggghhh!  In any case, July 22nd brought a total solar eclipse to Asia.  The best viewing areas were said to be in eastern China, Japan, India, and Nepal, but we ended up getting a pretty good view of it here in Taipei!&nb…

Brett came home early and we decided to make a quick stop into town for some last minute shopping.  There are these art/scrapbooking markers my Mom has been wanting and Brett wanted to make sure he sent some back with me for how (what a great future son-in-law, huh?).  We bought all the m…

Despite the rough ending to the night before, I woke up feeling pretty good.  Brett had to work again today, so he and I were up about the same time. After coffee was made, I was all set for a lazy day just lounging around the apartment with Erin. Sometime during mid-morning I took a stroll do…

People i met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Portia (USA), Ann (Taiwan) Ann dropped me off at my guesthouse in Taipei around 2.30pm and i was pretty shattered, so decided that a power nap was in order. A few hours later and i was once again refreshed and on my way out to meet Portia…

It rained pretty hard today, my last morning in Taipei. Got up early, had breakfast and went to the airport by taxi.The flight home was early, and I got home "before I left" Taipei. Got to love the time warp. It turned out I was lucky, because the United 777 airplane I flew was grounded for inspect…

It's early in the morning, and the very first thing I do when I land in Taipei Airport is to head straight to the duty free shop. I'm still wearing my reindeer antler headband. (Hey, if I have to spend Christmas on a plane, I'm going to celebrate quietly, on my head.) I have one goal…

This is our second trip to Taiwan. Since we have visited north Taiwan on the first trip this March, we were planning to see southern part of Taiwan in August. After we had decided the date to visit, (very last minute) we were working on Kaoshiung and Alishan. 2 days after that, a bad news forced us…

The boat docked in a suburb of Taipei called Koolown.  While it was nice everything we wanted to see was in Taipei so we did a little research and ended up on the commuter train for Taipai.  The trip was a little over 30 minutes long and it brought us right to the main MRT subway station.…

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later.The 15thday of the new year is calld the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade. And nowdays people usually just go to see the lantern show, like what I just did today. Enjoy!

In the early morning I was taken to the airport for my 10am flight to Hong Kong with China Airlines where I would spend another week. All in all, Taiwan is definitely a country worthwhile of visiting, as it has several beautiful national parks and cities. The capital Taipei has some very…

today we were leaving for koaschung.. we met jason one last time for breaky in the metro and walked around a bit at the metro mall. there grzechu found the legendary metro mug... ofcourse he started crying and just had to buy it.. we said goodbye to jason then caught our train to koaschung.. which …

After a wonderful night of sleep we left the hotel for some breakfast (our hotel didn't serve breakfast). Taipei has a lot of 'take-a-way' coffee points and bakery's on the street. We figured that it was a part of the culture in this city: 'hurry and time is money'. So we decided to do the same as …

NOTE: I am attempting with this blog to preserve memories for myself as well as hopefully give helpful insight to people who themselves may consider going to Indonesia in the future, so bare with my blah blah blah and all the rambling of info :) I hope this is of help to some people! I left Seattl…

We met again Jason for breakfast. And then he showed us the 'secret' Taipei-metro-souvenir shop, where i got a new metro-map-mug for my collection! Soooo ql!!!After we said good bye to Jason, hugged him and almost cryed ;) - we picked up the luggage from the hostel and were about to catch the high…