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Background: 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 the 1946 constitution drawn up for all of China. Over the next five decades, the ruling authorities gradually democratized and incorporated the native population within the governing structure. In 2000, Taiwan underwent its first peaceful transfer of power from the Nationalist to the Democratic Progressive Party. Throughout this period, the island prospered and became one of East Asia's economic "Tigers." The dominant political issues continue to be the relationship between Taiwan and China - specifically the question of eventual unification - as well as domestic political and economic reform.

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By Forts
August 25th 2009

Da'an park and Beitou hot springs. Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

Vietnamese concert

Da'an Park I'm starting to wake up at slightly more respectable time of day than I did when I first arrived. The last couple of days it's been around 9:30 so i'm feeling like less of a teenager. Anyway when it's 35 C outside being surrounded by concrete and constant traffic becomes pretty oppressive so I flick through the guidebook to see if I can escape from it all. Da'an park is Taipei's largest park and is apparently where the Taiwanese go to chill out. It;s a bit of a pain in the arse to get to becasue the brown line [View Full Entry]

By Megasaurus
August 25th 2009

English Lesson With Kevin Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

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So things really haven't been going according to plan! haha...but this time throwing the plan out the window was good! Kennon and I decided that I would teach at least half of the next tutoring session with Kevin. I was really excited and spent a couple of hours researching things to do Sunday night. Kennon focuses on conversation skills with Kevin too, so I based my lesson on questions that could spark a long conversation. I had a page with twenty "Are you good at ____" questions, a slang phrase worksheet, a page with ten questions focusing on day vs. date, [View Full Entry]

By Forts
August 22nd 2009

Shabu Shabu steam bowl, buffet and greatest poster of all time Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

Shabu Shabu steam bowl.

Today is all about food. I've decided that i've not been eating properly and it's starting to affect my mood. No more Big Macs for me, at least not for a while. I take a stroll over to Taipei Main Station stopping via Mr Donut to pick up one of the strawberry frosted variety. This is just a quick snack to keep me going, i'm not trying to pretend that this constitutes eating properly. About half way to the station I pass a Mitsukoshi dept store. This one isn't on the scale of the one over at Taipei 101 but is [View Full Entry]

By Megasaurus
August 22nd 2009

Big Fail Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

Ok, so today...we went to MTV, and it was really cool! MTV is like a video rental store mixed with many, many home theatre systems. It was only $6 USD and we got our a private screening of a movie; the only downside is that the movies are old; it's not just a mini movie theatre. It was really cool! And the seats were really comfortable. We watched Push, and it was really good. Also, today I was supposed to go back to the Shane English School. Well....I got a little lost, so I was late. Because I was late, I [View Full Entry]

By multigrain
August 21st 2009

Our unexpected adventure in Taiwan Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

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After our flight from Bali, we arrived in Taipei, Taiwan arround 7:30 am and had a 10 hour layover. We decided to make the best of our time and go do some exploring around Taipei. After some research, we found out the tallest skyscraper in the world, Taipei 101, happens to be in Taipei! We were excited to find out about this and were off to see it for ourselves. We exchanged some US dollars for some local currency and headed out of the airport. We had several options for transportation. We could have taken a cab, bus, or high speed [View Full Entry]

By Forts
August 19th 2009

The masterplan begins. Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

Scooter hell

Wahey, my first day in Taipei. I wake up at 11:30 having slept a near solid 12 hours. Time to start work on the masterplan. First things first I need a sim card. I head out into the baking midday sun stopping to grab a rice triangle at the 7/11. They had these things in Korea. They come wrapped in seaweed that always comes off in the wrapping so you can't eat it. They're an extremely average snack but my mandarin is non-existent and I've got stuff to do. Both the Rough Guide and the Lonely planet tell me I can [View Full Entry]

By Forts
August 18th 2009

Good evening Taipei Asia » Taiwan » Taipei » CKS International Airport

Hong Kong

So I land in Taipei at around 19:30 delighted to finally be here and to be done with travelling. It's taken about 16 hours to get from London to here which I guess isn't too bad. Can i just make two points about the journey. Both Heathrow T5 and BA have had a bad press over the last year or so but I thought they were great. T5 is an outstanding piece of architecture, so much better than the other hellhole terminals. My bags connected fine at Hong Kong (as did I) and i felt that the £25 charge from BA [View Full Entry]

By multigrain
August 11th 2009

Almost there! Asia » Taiwan » Taipei » CKS International Airport

buying our new camera!

Hello/AOA to all! We have just arrived in the Taipei airport after our 13 1/2 hour flight! The flight was not that bad. I was able to sleep for about 8 hours and Tayyaba slept a little less. The food we had on the flight was chinese noodles for a snack and then for breakfast we shared scrambled eggs and some chinese type of porridge that had carrots, peas, and chicken it it. The plane was huge and we are glad we have the longest leg of our trip behind us! We have one hour until our plane leaves from here [View Full Entry]

By liliram
August 6th 2009

Typhoon 101 @ Taipei 101 Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

Typhoon Day

We arrived in Taipei midmorning of August 6th. A good 45 minute ride from the airport, we soon found our Leofoo Hotel in the city center. We were a group of 4 traveling from Manila, each one smarting from the superb deal we bagged from Philippine Airlines which put out a two-day promo fare of only P3,900 (about US$80) inclusive of the travel tax of P1,620. The planned 4 day/3 night holiday listed a few must-visit sites, no-mercy eating and some night market shopping for good measure. Soon after we found our hotel, we wasted no time and took a cab [View Full Entry]

By The Dreamgirl Diaries
August 4th 2009

Getting Fat in Taiwan - Part 1! Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

Beef, Quail Eggs and Rice!

Heyo! some food tips in Taipei.. YUMZZZ!!! see http://patnessa.travellerspoint.com/4/ as i mentioned in my earlier entry, had much difficulty in arranging the layout of my pictures so i decided to migrate to Travellerspoint! Do share more of your tips with me as i'm headed to taipei again in oct! can't wait! :P [View Full Entry]

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