Badouzi Station – platform to the northeast coast
Badouzi Station, huh? What is it good for? Absolutely… well quite a lot actually. A History in Coal Badouzi (八斗子) is an area on the north east cost close to Keelung (Google map). It is…
Category: Destinations
The National Palace Museum
The National Palace Museum (NPM) is considered to be a national treasure in Taiwan, and is on just about every top list of things to see in Taiwan. And there is no doubt of the importance…
Wulai Yun Hsien Resort – The Resort that Time Forgot
Wulai is an extremely popular tourist destination in Xindian to the south of Taipei City, famed for the beautiful mountain scenery, rivers, rock pools, waterfalls, great hiking and perhaps most famously of all, hot springs. In…
Futai Street Mansion
In yet another renovation success story, Futai Street Mansion (臺北撫台街洋樓) has reopened it’s doors to the public in a phoenix-like rebirth. There are not that many historic buildings left in Taipei what with wars, natural…
National Museum of Marine Science and Technology
There has been a trend of renovating old industrial sites into cultural “parks” in Taiwan over the past few years (for example Songshan Cultural Park and Huashan), and the newest museum in Taiwan (it was…
The Lanyang Museum in Yilan
Tourism in Yilan has exploded with the opening of Xueshan tunnel. It’s now quick and easy to get to, and there are an ever increasing number of places to visit. One of the newer such…
Nangan Island, Matsu
Nangan is the most southerly of the two main islands and the biggest island in the chain. It has the feel of an enormous military base, but then that’s part of the attraction of visiting…
Matsu: Pirates, Birds and Guns
Photo by Prince Roy, licensed under the Creative Commons Matsu is an archipelago of 19 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, very close to China. In fact, on a clear day you can see…