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Taiwan - Taipei

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January 15th 2017
David here... On to our 7th country of this trip and the 4th new one so far. Our next destination was the island of Taiwan, which we did not know much about. But it was ideally placed for us, especially as we needed to pad out our trip by a couple of weeks in order to hit LA at the right time to see Lordi at the Whisky. The only thing I knew about Taiwan was that all of the toys I had in the 1 ... read more

Asia » Taiwan » Taipei

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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