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Asia » Taiwan » Taipei » Danshui April 5th 2009

March 30 So lucky I checked my flight last night because they changed it on about 8 hours early. Which I was a little bummed about because I didn't get to do the last few things I wanted to do but was good because I was getting into Taiwan earlier. The flight was fine. I found the bus to take me to Taipei main center. Then I called Talbot the couch surfer guy I'm staying with and he picked me up from the metro close to his house. He is a nice guy. American teaching English here in Taipei. When we got back to his place we took his dog molly a golden for a little walk. Then we grabbed some food chatted a bit and I passed out watching tv. March 31 Let's see today ... read more

Taiwan April 3 ++

Asia » Taiwan » Taipei » Danshui April 5th 2009

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April 3 So today I headed out to hit a few beaches. First up was Fulobg beach. It want a great beach and it had a decent lil wave. There was a river mouth splitting the beach so the waves had some form to it and the wind was off shore. The water felt around 60ish though. I walked around here a bit then hopped back on the train and headed to Dasi beach. This was a tiny town not much there. The surf spot was about 1/2 k down the road in a lil cove area called honeymoon beach. The name is much nicer then what it actually is. No resorts or anything just a foundation from something. The beach itself was mostly black stone. That was the most interesting part it was black sand ... read more

Zoo

Asia » Taiwan » Taipei » Danshui October 10th 2008

Taipei Zoo

sublimeiswhatigot

Hi All Today was my last day in Taiwan I fly out to Hong Kong tomorrow morning, so i finally went to the zoo which was ace, the sun was out in full and so were the people due to it being a public holiday. Taipei zoo is far bigger than any zoo I've been to in England and its ridiculously cheap Usually it cost $60 (1pound) but because today was Taiwan's independence day it was half price so it cost me 50p!!! They have loads of animals there from all over the world including Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Elephants, Wolves, Penguins, Rhino, Giraffe, and Monkeys to name a few. The zoo used to be very close to the city and was very small but a few years ago they moved it to allow the animals to ... read more

Danshui, Taiwan

Asia » Taiwan » Taipei » Danshui August 31st 2008

Danshui

Lebdawho

The trip back to Taipei was a little longer and a lot funnier then the trip to get to Keelung. As typical foreigner behavior we tried to get to our platform early. Walking up to the ticket gates Amy put in her ticket....only to have it shot right back out the other end and onto the platform floor. It had to wait till a station worker came by to retrieve it for us. Luckily, a lovely old man came over and explained why we couldn't go through, and then we checked out tickets to see that they didn't have magnetic back, so, of course, they flew out the other end. There was nothing to catch them. It's a 45 minute train ride out to Danshui from Taipei station. It's the end of the line on the ... read more

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In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using th...more history

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