http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Joe-Hung-Chou/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Joe Hung Chou en-us Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:06:56 +0000 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:06:56 +0000 Bangkok for my winter vacatoion. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-457185.html Today with friend guide we went to visit the old street where have been re builded recently for keeping heritage and recording the old life style in Taiwan. Old buildings with traditional style you will experience where people used to be.. different atmosphere and nice. i am so gald that Taipei city government focus on this and make it nice. Will see many artists exhibitions it is closed to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-439864.html Finaly i decided to visit Penghu island Taiwan in stead of Phukey in Thailand this year just because of the serious spread of influenza there. Three days two nights this time flight from Taipei airport one hour only not spent too much time on transportation. It is the hot summer here but the first feeling in Penghu was great with confortable wind. At least it is not as humid as in Tai http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/blog-413632.html Traditiona Taiwan ice with many different kinds of adding red bean green bean buding penuat..fruits or aborsing milk with sugar water. it is very populous to eat ice in summer not ice cream here.. try to see the pics that u could imagine how enjoyful to have thoese in summer in Taiwan. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/blog-405240.html flower market held on weekend in Taipei city between RenAiKingKuo road. No MRT stations there but still could take the bus to there.It is famous here for local people to buy flowersplants or seeds. Orchit will be the populous and famous plants in Taiwan for official places used for decoration. Lots of different kind of brands of orchits . that is my favorus one. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-405227.html FuLon is famous of summer activities in North Taipei it held the sand sculture music concern at summer also the good place for biking travelors. This early morning we took the local express from Taipei train station to Fulon station it took us almost one hour to arrive. Today is not so humid and good with sunshine for go biking we rented four bicycles with three hours one hundred per per http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-403494.html Today we decided to visit the place again by taking bus at ZhungShai Fushin MRT station exit 2 it is freguent of bus from Taipei to our destination it took us NT87per person and 1 hour . it was cloudy and a bit humid even thouhg it is not really summer but still hot for us. At 900 o'clock we arrived at Jinguashi where used to be populous by gold in acient time but n http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-399646.html June snow flower festival held during the early May to June which there are many tourists to visit on many places in Taiwan Snow flower with white color you could see all mountain covered with white flowers like the snowing in winter of course here in Taiwan we seldom to see the real snow except in the high mountain area. So people like to descirbe the white flower as June snow flower http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-395877.html Today after waking up with tiny cloudy and cold weather so weird it is already closed to summer but the weather changed dramatically these days from hot to cold. anyway i decided to visit Red Floor in Ximenting where used to be the market of creative for the young. Look at what are new there well decorated cute stuff.. but most of them are for girls. Beside the red floor there is a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/Ximending/blog-393729.html Flower season began since the end of March till April at National YammingShan park where is the backyark for Taipei citizens . Be afraid of being crowded on weekend so we decided to wake up earily and took the bus up to the national park to visit in flower season.The weather in April was changeable last week it was so cold but on weekend it was so hot ..but was still good for tra http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-387867.html Sun Moon Lake i never been there before is the most famous and populous touristing place in Taiwan. It is the place surrounding by mountains and used to be destroyed at 921 earthqauke. But now most of the hotels reconstructed and get welcome again by tourists. There are many hotels and BB around the lake but i still booked in advance on the net with tour package including bus fee and hot http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Puli/blog-384047.html Back again to Taitung in Spring which is really good for travelling. The weather is so warm but not too hot to walk. This time in weekend afternoon i walked alone the bicycle pavement which was reconstructed by the abandoned railway tracks alone the old train stattion to the new one. Along this bicyle specific pavement bothside with green trees and flowers which may be planted by people wh http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taitung/blog-382182.html we went to visit different locations to take the wellcolorful decoration of Ox in Taipei city after Friday night. Also for the coming of Lantern festival last week still have the different Lantern exhibition in the Sun Yei Shan Memorial hall square. Latenr festival is the most populous chinese and important festival nowaday in Taiwan with many different kinds of celebrations in many cities. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-373308.html With comfortable wind and sunshine in winter Today really is good for picnic or walk along streets. So we decided to walk after our brunch in Xi Da area of course CKS memorial hall is the first choice of my walking trip today. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-369207.html LiGi Moon word located in Taitung closed to Taitung new train station. You could rent a car or motor to there when you arrive in the new train station of Taitung it is really worth visiting. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taitung/blog-368223.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taitung/blog-368218.html For warm sunshine in winter to walk around the art museum in a really nice thing. Here with green trees and filled with fresh air relazing and sitting on the wood floor empty your brain without any thinkings. Hope i could have this kind of life in crowded Taipei city.But it seems to be a luxurious wish with nice weather in Winter. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taichung/blog-360692.html Useful Taiwan tour websites it sounds that if you want to search by google but it maybe costs lots of time to ready them . Instead of google the most possible way is to ask the local friends which websites are worth visiting in advance. For the purppose i guess if i could put some useful websites linkages herein it would be helpful for those who want to visit Taiwan .1tourist buerau of Taiw http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/blog-357942.html Taipei City government will hold the big flower exhibition in year 2010 so the city hall are trying to decorate more creative or fun garden artist around the city hall. This Saturday afternoon when we passed throught the city hall for the sake of coming parade i saw the robot shrinking around the stone paths. interesting and reminding people for the coming of Y2010 event named Taipei Flower Exh http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-357936.html November in Beijing is freeze for me but i was so happy to visit by chance for the business trip. The meeting was held at Monday in the early November so i decided to arrive in advance for exploring this ancient city. For rearching the related information by net and asked friends opinions i decided to choose the hotel located in HuDun area so that i could go around this area by foot easily. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-352103.html