Blogs from Taitung, Taiwan, Asia

I went to the east coast side of the island this weekend. The Pacific Ocean looked so blue and clear. I drove a manual transmission car around tight curves that thinly separated the Pacific and the mountains formed at the edge of the Phillippine Sea Plate. The day turned into night while I drove and the bright full moon came out. Driving is great. There was a cow farm out there. I drank some pretty good chocolate milk. The milk is free if you just slaughter the cow yourself and clean up all the blood, but I didn't do that cause I'd still have to pay a wizard to make it chocolate. Then I visited the Bunun Aboriginees land. Up until maybe 100 years ago, everyone at some point would visit another tribe and take someone's ... read more

Hey Everybody! We're still in Taiwan and doing well. We finally got to take a little trip at the end of May. The Taiwanese work a lot, so we won't have many opportunities like this. We had a four day holiday and decided to head to the East coast. Taiwan's east coast is the less developed side of the island due to the large, steep mountains (several peaks over 12,000 feet) and the typhoons experienced each year. There's also a large indigenous population of various tribes. The trip was great. The city of Taitung was our base. We spent a good amount of time at the beach. There's only a few swimable beaches on the east coast, so we were lucky to be near one. The water and currents can be rather violent and in many ... read more

At Chinese new year, flew back to hometown and stayed with famly is the key activity for people to celebrate the festival with family together. That is also the only period which i would stay with my parents for a longer time during whole year since i worked in Taipei. Taitung is located at the east of Taiwan where is not so convenient by train or flight also. Only the difficulty of booking train tickets but also the available seats of flight. I went to visit the children story park where reconstructed based on the old japaness styled buildings , now are used for children books open space. After the children store museum, there is a train art village closed to the old train station to exhibit the old style of train culture located the ... read more

We arrived in Taitung late in the evening and the tourist info centre was closed. We negotiated 900 NTD for the hotel by the train station which included breakfast and free bicycle use. Excited not to have to walk so we jumped on our rusty steeds down the road to a cool but touristy restaurant that had tables around a grassy centre which we guessed was used for tribal dancing. The next day we looked into getting out to Green Island or Orchid island which we had heard a lot about. However, we found out we missed the only ferry for the day to Green Island and the ferry to Orchid was not for a few days later in the week. We decided it would be pretty expensive and didn't want to miss a day so ... read more