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There are affiliate links in here. I get a small commission if you purchase through them at no extra cost to you. I remember seeing this bizarre toilet restaurant on the Travel Channel years ago. I thought how weird is that and then promptly forgot about it. And then I was researching things to do in Taipei and…
Continue reading ➞ Modern Toilet: Taipei’s Toilet Restaurant
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…
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…
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…
The rumors are true. Once you see one temple, you've seen thirty. That didn't stop me from going to too many of them though. The first was Wen Wu on Sun Moon Lake and after visiting I wished I had somewhere like this to just hang out and read with a view like that. Since…
This streak of unhelpful posts just keeps going, but soon enough, once I get to Taipei, it will be done. But for now, here's another. This is the pagoda that rises over Sun Moon Lake. I don't know what it's called (it's the Ci-en Pagoda, I had to Google it), just that I really really…
Continue reading ➞ Climbing the Ci-en Pagoda Over Sun Moon Lake
Sun Moon Lake was one of my favorite parts of Taiwan. Sure, it's just a lake. But it's a really pretty lake. And thinking about it now,I probably liked it so much because at this point I still wasn't enjoying Taiwan all that much and it reminded me more of Slovenia than Taiwan. When I…
At this point in my trip, only a few days in, I was part of a group. I was on a tour for five days to go around all of Taiwan. This was day two, yes, I skipped one for now, and we were in Kenting at the very southern tip of Taiwan. I can't tell you the…
Dihua Street is a market that is set up for Chinese New Year goodies and stuff. It's also the first place I saw massages with butcher knives. Well, that's new to me. And look at his face. He knows how weird it is, but he's lovin' it! Aside from that, Dihua Street is awesome. It's…
If you haven't noticed the trend, I didn't know tons about what I was going to do on this whole Asia trip. I knew general things, but nothing about them. I did know that I wanted to go to Yehliu Geopark, though. The park is a bunch of weird rock formations on the northeast coast,…
There are affiliate links in here. I get a small commission if you purchase through them at no extra cost to you. Jiufen was one of the many things on my list of things to do in Taiwan. It was also one of the first things I did there. It may have actually been the…
Continue reading ➞ Spirited Away To The Hills of Jiufen: What To Do In Jiufen
There are affiliate links in here. I get a small commission if you purchase through them at no extra cost to you. Like the Skytree in Tokyo, I developed a liking for Taipei 101, one of Taipei's top tourist attractions. I went there my first day in Taiwan for some delicious Din Tai Fung and to…
Continue reading ➞ Jewels And Dumplings And Starbucks: Taipei 101 Guide
It was the day after the underground river and time for another adventure. This time it was in the Sabang Mangrove Forest and we were going to see some wildlife. Hopefully at least. Like most things I encountered on Palawan, I didn't really know what this was. It was a mangrove tour and we were going…
Continue reading ➞ How To See The Sabang Mangrove Forest Without A Tour
All I knew about Sabang was that this is where I would find the underground river. Like Port Barton, I had heard good and bad things. It wasn't all that expensive and I like caves so I figured I might as well go while I'm there. The chances of me being back there in my…
Continue reading ➞ DIY Tour: How To See The Puerto Princesa Underground River Without A Tour