Blogs from Taichung, Taiwan, Asia

Gestern fuhr ich nach dem Frühstück problemlos mit dem öffentlichen Bus von Taichung nach Lukang. Dort lief ich zum Lukang Longshan Temple, der in der Stadt berühmt ist. Dort wurde ich von einem Taiwanesen in ein Gespräch verwickelt, welches aber durchaus interessant war. Er meinte, dass Taiwan die chinesischen Flugzeuge, die regelmäßig den Luftraum verletzen, einfach abschießen könnte, und diese daher kein Problem darstellen. Ob das auch mit den gut 200 Stealth Fightern der chinesischen Luftwaffe klappen würde, weiß ich aber nicht. Durch die Unterhaltung hatte ich leider keine Zeit mehr, noch den Lukang Mazu Temple, der ebenfalls sehr sehenswert sein soll, anzusehen. Statt dessen nahm ich wieder den Bus zurück zu meinem Ausgangspunkt. Dort trank ich auf dem Zimmer eine Dose Taiwan Beer und Kaffee von der Maschine auf dem Zimmer. Im Anschluss ging ich ... read more

Today I visited the Atlantic Museum at No. 456, Section 1, Hanxi Road, East District, Taichung City. I heard that the artworks in the museum were collected by the owner Sotheby's and Christie's for viewing. I admired the many foreign art and cultural relics. I couldn’t help admiring the owner. Artistic perception. After browsing the exhibition of each cultural relic, I found that foreigners paid great attention to "enjoy" and found many peculiar inventions. However, after a long time of observation, the composition of each invention is very complicated. Including celestial globe, printing, crystal glass, etc. I am particularly interested in the celestial sphere. The principle and introduction of the celestial sphere mentioned that it acts as a bystander to a third party outside the universe, observing. The three-dimensional model of the whole sky solves the ... read more

Rano klasika, prezratie sa na ranajkach. Ostatny ludia si taktiez nakladaju taniere kopcom a otacaju sa 2-3x. Dnes som povodne chcel ist do mestecka lukang ale som si to rozmyslel. Na odporucanie dalsej cs sandri, s ktorou som mal mat stretko v sobotu ale z toho nic nebude, bo zahajim presun do ineho mesta, kvoli drahemu ubytku, idem teda kuknut National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Na turu mi odporucila trial 1-5, to je vraj normalna turistika bez schodov ale na to uz nemam cas. Vonku zas peklo. Fotim si taichung former city hall, fajn kolonialna budova. Pokracujem za spalujuceho slnka prazdnymi ulicami (auta neratam) k rieke, Liuchuan Riverside Walk. Nuz tu to neni tak pekne upravene ako pri hlavnej ceste pri vseobecnej nemocnici. Ono to tu neni neiako upravne, dole k rieke (vacsi potok) sa ... read more

Na izbe som mal teda nakonec troch ludi ale zadny ramus nerobili. Na recepcii odovzdavam voycher na ranajky, klesam do podzemia, tu sok. Ziadny jeden toast a neaky dzem ale klasicky bufet. Tak tento deal sa oplatil teda. Na vyber prazenica, rozne zeleniny, kuracie kusky, banan, rozne doplnky, dve polievky, ryza, dzus, kava, mlieko, chleba... Po dvojitich ranajkach zistujem cenu ubytka ak to kupim napriamo. Opat dvojnasobna cena na vikend /je aj festival/. Kontrolujem agodu, samozrejme lacnejsie. Nuz zatial nic nebookujem nechavam si to ulezat v hlave a hor sa do mesta. Na zastavke 2nd market chytam zrychlenu 300ku a uz sa valim free busom k narodnemu divadlu. Podla cs su tu busy free /prvych 10km/ uz cca 4 roky. Tak to fakt nechapem kto to plati. Busy s cislami 300-310 su zrychlene, bo idu v ... read more

Fri We left Taipei by train. I bought the tickets online at home,printed my receipt, went to the ticket office at the station and they gave me the tickets! Everything works....this is a novelty to us ! We picked up a car in Tai Chung and intend to explore the western part of the country and drive down to the south coast. The guy in the office very kindly punched in all the addresses that we had into the sat nav as you could only do that in Chinese!! Luckily she speaks American!! First stop Lukang,for 2nights. Found it easily enough. We are in an Air bnb here and were too early for check in and so we drove around the town to try to get our bearings. After checking in we went out to explore ... read more