I’ve mentioned before both that I love Taiwan, but I really didn’t at all for a while either.  I shared what I love about Taiwan, now, since I like to keep things real here, I’m going to share what I didn’t love as much.

I would also like to note that these are pretty much all personal things that I didn’t like or found annoying, and some are just silly little things that aren’t actually bad but more funny.  It was literally nothing about Taiwan itself.  I actually love Taiwan and these are all just part of the experience.  Taiwan is one place I’m actually dying to go back to.

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Taiwan has a lot to offer, like, a lot.  It has awesome cities, beautiful beaches, luscious jungle, marble gorges, and rolling hills.  And that doesn’t even touch on the food.  Ohh the food.  Enough of this, lets get to the good stuff.

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The Pingxi Lantern Festival is one of the coolest ways to celebrate Chinese New Year in Taipei if not all of Taiwan.  I don’t know what goes on in the rest of Taiwan, so that’s why I’m so confident in that statement.  If you know of something else that’s super awesome, let me know!  It just so happened that I booked my five weeks in Taiwan to coincide with the Pingxi Lantern Festival.  I didn’t even know it existed when I was planning my trip until shortly before I got to Taiwan.

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I wasn’t sure about Taipei when I first arrived, but that’s because I couldn’t do anything for myself.  Almost as soon as I got back to my hostel a few days later, that changed very quickly.  The people I met definitely helped, but there is plenty more to love about Taipei.

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I don’t have a lot to say about this, I just wanted to share some pictures from Taipei that don’t really belong anywhere else.  Like usual, I wandered around, drank coffee, took pictures of lanterns, and tried snake blood.  Oh yeah, I drank snake blood one night.

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LOOKING TO VISIT HUASHAN 1914 CREATIVE PARK IN TAIPEI?

The Huashan 1914 Creative park in Taipei was something I didn’t know about until we were on our way there.  We happened to be in the neighborhood for who knows what and decided we should go. 

I kept telling everyone we need to go to Tamsui!  They would then ask why and I would say, well I’m not actually sure.  It was my last day in Taiwan and it was supposed to be hot and sunny.  What better thing to do than go to the beach?  This is where we came up with Tamsui.  Apparently, there are a couple of beaches there so off we went.

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Yup.  You read that right.  A cat village.  Just a short train ride from Taipei is Houtong Cat Village.  It’s nestled up in the hills and like most days, it was rainy.

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Update 2023: Unfortunately the Ximending location of Modern Toilet was a victim of COVID and closed down. You can visit the Shilin location though. These pictures are all the Ximending location.

Lanyu was hard to actually get lost on.  I mean, there’s really only one road around the island with a couple smaller ones weaving through the villages dotted along the coast.  I was more lost in my head.  Still.  Feeling way too sorry for my self.  Still.  I needed to get out of this funk and Lanyu, it turns out, was not the place to do that.

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I can’t decide what to call this.  I didn’t do a whole lot of anything in Taitung.  I spent a lot of time wandering around and drinking coffee, but that’s not much of a surprise.  It was cold and rainy most of my time there, but the last day was really nice.

I wandered through Tie Hua Music Village admiring the hundreds of lanterns then made my way down to the beach to watch the waves.  I went to a bookstore to look at everything  I couldn’t read and still avoided eating like the plague because it was intimidating.

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Hualien was the first place that I was on my own in Taiwan and I was terrified.  I was on what I was hoping the right train.  Then I got off in what I hoped was Hualien.  Then I walked what I hoped was the right direction to get to my hostel.  Then I stood outside my hostel and hoped someone would let me in.  Then I checked in and hoped I would meet people.  That was the only thing that didn’t happen.

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