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2009-06-22, Hu-an-liao, Taiwan. By: ajmartino | | today i started my trip around taiwan. I was on the road for about 4 hours, winding around steep mountain roads, with many near death experiences.
It was an awesome day, i went on a 2 hour hike th... |
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| Touch Down.
2009-06-21, Taipei, Taiwan. By: ajmartino | | Okay and so I begin my time in Taiwan. I arrived here a little over 8 hours ago now, coming in was awesome we flew over all these huge mountains all covered in clouds, super cool.
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 | I love Taiwan
2009-06-08, Taiwan, Taiwan. By: seasia09 | | Taiwan is sweet. the end.
We arrived last Thursday. We had spent the night at the Singapore airport (what the heck) and left the next morning. We have been so busy ever since....We have been visitin... |
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 | Week 2 update
2009-06-02, Taipei, Taiwan. By: fea09 | | Hello everyone,
This last week here in Taiwan has been freakin amazing. We have all really got to know the people here and enjoyed our stay.
Outreach this last week consisted of-
Going to ... |
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| Week 1 update
2009-05-25, Taipei, Taiwan. By: fea09 | | Hey everyone!
We are soon wraping up our first week here in Taiwan, only one more week left!
So far it's been awesome, Everyone on our team is still loving it here.
We have so far visited a s... |
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| We are finally here!
2009-05-20, Taipei, Taiwan. By: fea09 | | Hey Everyone!
We have safely arrived here in Taiwan!
Most of us, Mack Dan Skye and Myself (Paige), arrived her yestarday afternoon.
Jon and kenny had a longer layover in Hong Kong to work out... |
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 | One last museum thought
2009-05-18, taipei, Taiwan. By: cheeseme | | Did I mention the Jade cabbage? In the National Palace Museum they have a large piece of jade carved in the likeness of a bok choy cabbage, no I did not type that wrong, a cabbage. There was a sign i... |
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| Bangkok bound
2009-05-18, taipei, Taiwan. By: cheeseme | | We are sitting in the airport waiting for the flight to BKK, you have to love free wifi. We decided to spend the day at the National Palace Museum. The idea was a day of air conditioned fun while we... |
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| last day in taipei
2009-05-18, taipei, Taiwan. By: cheeseme | | That headline sounds like a movie...
Watch the exciting adventures, experience the foot blisters, and roll on the floor laughing at the inept attempt at communication in a classic tale of travel gon... |
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 | 5am
2009-05-16, taipei, Taiwan. By: cheeseme | | Its 5am Sunday. I am awake J is sound asleep yet again. He slept 14 hour yesterday. I think we might head to the hotsprings today, but we'll see. My Mandarin is improving exponentially. I can now say... |
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| Great day
2009-05-16, taipei, Taiwan. By: cheeseme | | Walked over to Wisteria Tea House and had a traditional tea, then walked to the weekend Jade and Flower market gorgeous wonderful. Then back home to drop off the purchases and off to the Shilin Night ... |
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 | YAWN!!!
2009-05-14, taipei, Taiwan. By: cheeseme | | Just woke up from a relatively fitful night of sleep. (my stomach kept telling me it was time for lunch and then dinner.) Our hostels address is Jin-Jiang Street, Lane 48, Alley 4, #6, 1F. It is down ... |
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 | Got here safe
2009-05-13, taipei, Taiwan. By: cheeseme | | Got here safe with some minor glitches. When our taxi came we grabbed everything but our travel documents. Had to go back for those. Oh and we messed up the whole international dateline thing and res... |
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 | Terima Kasih
2009-04-01, Taipei, Taiwan. By: sbirch | | So I got all of my jewelry that was done collected, got my export certificate of origins form completed, and made it to the airport on time. Everything was at the last minute, everyone wanted to be my... |
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 | Last few days
2008-11-07, Taipei, Taiwan. By: ningning88 | | So I updated last night...but I fell asleep before I clicked the upload button. Therefore, I lost my whole entry! That's ok though. It wasn't that important anyways.
Wednesday:
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 | Day 4
2008-11-04, Taipei, Taiwan. By: ningning88 | | So today we visited Hshinchu Science Park in Taiwan. It was a hour away from ten city of Taipei...
Then did a lot of walking around....at night I went to Ximen. I am really tired..so I will update ... |
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 | Days 2 and 3
2008-11-03, Taipei, Taiwan. By: ningning88 | | Yesterday, we woke up and ate continental breakfast...it was sooo delicious. We had hash browns, scrambled eggs, toast, and more...I was so happy. :) THen we had a lecture on the History of Taiwan in ... |
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| Arrival to Taiwan
2008-11-01, Taipei, Taiwan. By: ningning88 | | Schedule:
Last night was Halloween, and people went out to party until 4:30am
I was sick in bed =( but I was relaxing
Woke up at 5am to board bus at 6am
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 | I'll give you 100NT ($3) to eat this...
2008-04-05, Taipei, Taiwan. By: fareast08 | | It's been nearly a week since we arrived in Taiwan to kick off the first leg of our travels and so far it has been great. There are so many people and scooters everywhere! So far only a couple of us h... |
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 | Traditional Chinese Opera
2007-12-15, Taipei, Taiwan. By: chrisjenn | | Last night we went to a Traditional Chinese Opera and Puppet Show. It was great. Before the show the performers we in the lobby applying their makeup and the audience could watch. There was also tradi... |
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 | The Betelnut Beauty
2007-10-04, Taipei, Taiwan. By: chrisjenn | | Betel nut is a US$1 Billion industry here in Taiwan. The Betel Nut is the seed of the betel palm-a tree that grows throughout Asia-and slit down the middle, mixed with lime and wrapped in a leaf befor... |
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 | The begining of my new life in China
2007-08-27, Taipei, Taiwan. By: AEnglish84 | | Greetings I write from a massage chair in the Taipei airport. We have a 2 hour layover before we get to Hong Kong. The flight was 13 hours and good thing they served free wine and food because I was a... |
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 | Scooter Capital of the World
2007-07-30, Taipei, Taiwan. By: chrisjenn | | So we are living in a suburb of Taipei, called Shin Juang. It is about 15 minutes to the nearest MRT Station. But thank goodness that we have a scooter, right? or maybe not. Taiwan has the most scoote... |
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 | Stuffed on samples
2007-07-27, Taipei, Taiwan. By: chrisjenn | | So its day 3 , time to hit the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101.
One cab ride and MRT(subway) later we are there. Quite the sight. It has the fastest elevator in the world , the largest e... |
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| Safe and Sound and not drownd
2007-07-25, Taipei, Taiwan. By: chrisjenn | | 25 hours of flying/transfers 8 green teas,10 coffees,4 bottles of wine,6 Asahi beers,2 large headaches,6 asprin,2 gravol,6 bottles of water 36 rice crackers,6 freeze dried meals, and 13 trips to the l... |
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 | Bubble Tea and Temples
2006-04-20, Taipei, Taiwan. By: ch_travels | | Taiwan was wonderful. I think one of my favorite memories was the bubble tea - red, black, green, and white, with milk or without, and filled with jellies and tapioca and bubbles... Mmm! Yum. Not to m... |
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 | Go new ways!
2007-05-02, Taipei, Taiwan. By: eastasia | | Incredible how fast the time goes by. Tomorrow (May 3rd) we're already leaving for China. And that means that we won't be able to update this page for the next couple weeks because it's too dangerous.... |
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| Taipei? Taiwan!
2007-04-21, Taipei, Taiwan. By: eastasia | | Hi there!
After a long day of travelling (started at 9am, arrived at 2am...) we arrived in Taipei and had a big bus to bring us to our appartment where we now live for the next two weeks. It's nice... |
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 | Taipei and Chiao Hsi
2005-11-03, Taipei, Taiwan. By: pedro | | Second visit to Taiwan... Up to Taipei 101 tower, the World's tallest building (508 meters) and a wonderful stay at the Hotel Royal Chiao Hsi spa! |
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 | Taipei 101
2007-04-01, Taipei, Taiwan. By: alfredo | | The tallest building of the planet since 2004. I finally made it to Taipei; the capital of Taiwan. What a great experience I had visiting what it is for sure something that Taiwanese are proud of, bei... |
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 | In Rout
2007-02-14, Taipei, Taiwan. By: elishabee | | 6am-
We left America on the 12th and have arived at our destination on valentines day. A day spent in the air, neither here nor there. Now in a similarly steral airport we stretch and wait. The ... |
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 | Finally arrived!
2006-12-29, Taipei, Taiwan. By: sw733 | | Holy crap, I finally arrived Taiwan! It's been one freaking long and painful flight. First, the flight was delayed and didn't take off from Newark til 12:45 AM Dec 28th. Second, my mom and I were... |
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 | taipei holiday
2006-06-07, Taipei, Taiwan. By: socrates | | he weather most of the time was also good though it did rain at times and the southern part of Taiwan suffered floods and mudslides. Did not sweat most of the time as the humidity there is much lower ... |
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 | PIZZA
2006-05-03, Taipei, Taiwan. By: laneise | | The students surprised us with an American meal. Somebody must have been praying God send me something because I was about to break down trying all this food. |
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 | McDonalds
2006-05-02, Taipei, Taiwan. By: laneise | | I really wanted to go to McDonalds but itried the street vendor instead. There was a KFC to. |
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| Different Food
2006-05-02, Taipei, Taiwan. By: laneise | | These are foods I saw when we were out walking and shopping. These foods were in regular stores. |
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 | Here we go
2006-05-02, Taipei, Taiwan. By: laneise | | i'm just going to try everything whether i like it or not and i might not eat it all but at least i tried. |
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 | Good People
2006-05-02, Taipei, Taiwan. By: laneise | | These are some of the most wonderful people you can meet. They are so respectful and loving. They are very patient. I've never seen anything like it. I will be back to visit. This luncheon was a very ... |
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 | whoa
2006-05-02, Taipei, Taiwan. By: laneise | | i've had a sore throat since i've tried all that food and an upset stomach. the teacher says it could be my body adjusting so we'll see but in the meantime i've been reading my scriptures for it. so p... |
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