Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial

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Taipei

March 26th 2013
It was an early morning flight to Taipei, but not a long one, and flying out of Haneda instead of Narita made it seem much shorter. I arrived at Songshan airport with my girlfriend, Miki, and we took the MRT subway to Ximen, where our hotel was. When we surfaced at Ximen, I took in my first impressions of Taipei. The immediate area around the station was a populated intersection, complete with ... read more

Asia » Taiwan » Taipei » Ximending

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

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