Deep Fried Delights

Salty Tourism in Tainan: The Cigu Salt Mountain

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February 23rd 2013
For a more updated and comprehensive article, please see my 2021 guide to visiting Cigu Salt Mountain and Jingzijiao Salt Fields in Tainan, Taiwan . I love salt. I eat so much of it that my partner Emily says my hair will fall out. But I don't generally plan holidays around it. Until recently, that is. Staying in a countryside township in Chiayi County for Chinese New Year (read about it in ... read more

Asia » Taiwan » Tainan

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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... ... read more