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"day 22 in taiwan"
last day in taiwan for us. this means getting up early, having breakfast, packing things, trying to fit all the additional stuff...
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"day 21 in taiwan"
today we had a long stroll through taipeh, again with loads of nice people, shopping, eating, heat and humidity. but at least it...
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"day 20 in taiwan"
thanks to "kai-tak" today was a constant mix of sunshine and rain, but permanently hot and humid. so we decided to go shopping. ...
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"day 19 in taiwan"
we left taroko today, heading back to taipeh again mainly because of "kai-tak", the latest typhoon, but also for shopping. so af...
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"day 18 in taiwan"
we had planned today as a hiking day, so started our hike with the "swallow grotto trail" (aka. "yanzihkou trail"), that should ...
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"day 17 in taiwan"
today we got up early and were fetched by a bus to be brought to the harbour. there we started our whale watching tour, hoping t...
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"day 16 in taiwan"
so today today was our bus tour in the hualien area. after getting on a small bus, since our tour group was around ten people, w...
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"day 15 in taiwan"
today we went straight to the tourist information center after the breakfast to ask for a recommendation on what to do and what ...
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"day 14 in taiwan"
after saying farewell to the guys at mvilla hotel we got a ride to the pier, where we got on the ferry back to donggang today. o...
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"day 13 in taiwan"
the typhoon will not hit taiwan at all - lucky us! so i returned the scooter today, grabbed a coffee at the 7-eleven store and w...
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"day 12 in taiwan"
the central weather bureau website's graphics indicate that the typhoon seems to go southwards today, not fully hitting the main...
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"day 11 in taiwan"
today we left tainan, heading for the "little luichiu island", located south-east of taiwan. to get there, we had to take a trai...
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"day 10 in taiwan"
second day of our temple tour through tainan. first stop was the "chikhan tower"[06-35], a reconstructed fort dating back to the...
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"day 09 in taiwan"
today, right after breakfast we went across the street to the tourist information center. we asked some questions about getting ...
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"day 08 in taiwan"
we really made it today! we joined the hiking tour[01-10] to mt. maolan at 04:50, to get a nice view on the sun moon lake. so ca...
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"day 07 in taiwan"
today we left taipeh, and headed to "sun moon lake". we picked a train at 10:00 in the morning, so after having breakfast and ch...
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"day 06 in taiwan"
today we wanted to go to the north, to keelung. therefore we bought a ticket at the TRA (taiwan railway administration). when we...
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"day 05 in taiwan"
today was father's day in taiwan - at least that's what the ads told us. but we didn't notice any difference in the behaviour of...
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"day 04 in taiwan"
the bLog entry for today will be pretty short, as we spent almost all day long in taipeh zoo[001-118], the biggest zoo in asia. ...
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"day 03 in taiwan"
day 03 started with the seek for a new hostel. the night before we tried to find a room via the internet. we found a cool hostel...
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"day 02 in taiwan"
after getting up we decided to stay another day in the "happy family" hostel right next to central station. after booking anothe...
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"day 01 in taiwan"
after the departure in vienna we had a stop in bangkok. since there were not that many cool movies available during the flight, ...