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Summer Camp

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August 25th 2010
Last Sunday I got on a train and headed to the northeast part of Taiwan to work at a summer camp for a week. I decided to be cheap and instead of taking the high speed rail, I took a train that took twice as long, but was half the price. I stared out the window, ate, read and slept my way through the 6 hour train ride. During the last hour of the trip from Taipei to Yilan, the train rounded a c ... read more

Asia » Taiwan » Yilan County

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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