One of the things that you’ll notice as you travel down the road to Wulai Township is a series of orange-coloured statues that dot the roadside. Fashioned to inject a bit of Atayal aboriginal culture into the area, the statues feature along the roadside into Wulai Township, with a few inside the township itself. Some [...]
Walking along the Lover’s Path in Wulai that runs along the Nanshi River, amidst the gorgeous backdrop of soaring mountains and the blue-green river itself, sticking out like a sore thumb is a large white hydroelectric power station. Owned and operatee by Taiwan Power Company (TaiPower), I’m not entirely sure when the Wulai hydroelectric power station [...]
Every New Years Eve billions of people from around the world see the new year in by making a set of resolutions they have no intention of keeping. Along with these wishes come a series of hopes, plans, dreams and aspirations. If I had to describe Taiwan’s Lantern Festival to someone – I’d do so [...]
No visit to Pingxi’s Sky Lantern Festival is complete without the launching of your very own prayer riddled sky lantern. Armed with a few wishes, a paintbrush and one big red paper lantern, I recently had the pleasure of launching my own sky lantern into the skies of Taiwan as part of the annual Sky [...]
I was sitting there at my desk lost in my own writer’s world and furiously typing away, when the front door burst open. ‘OMG LOOK WHAT I HAVE!’ My girlfriend slammed down what appeared to be an A3 cardboard design of some sorts and I looked down at it, slightly confused. ‘So uh… what’s that?’ [...]
In every touristy town of Taiwan you’re inevitably bound to find an Old Street. These Old Streets are typically like daytime night markets with a series of stores on either side of the streets hocking touristy stuff, food and any goods the area might be well-known for. One thing I liked about Wulai’s Old Street [...]
One of the great things about cycling around outside of Taiwan’s cities is that it doesn’t take all that much to find a gloriously scenic backdrop to enjoy with your ride. On a recent trip to Wulai Township, situated in Taipei County just south of the Taipei City, we saddled up our bicycles and took [...]
Back in October of last year I was lucky enough to catch a screening of one of the few places in Taiwan showing an English subtitled version of Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale. Having quite enjoyed Seediq Bale, when I learnt that it was possible to visit the Wushe Street set and that they’d [...]
Coming at a cost of $30 million TWD ($991,000 USD), Taipei 101′s 2012 NYE fireworks ran for a duration of 202 seconds (signifying 2 times the 101st year of the Republic of China – because it’s not like we live in Taiwan or anything…), and fired off ‘30,000 rounds of fireworks set off from the [...]
Between 1901 and the year 2000 there were 91 major earthquakes in Taiwan, 48 of them resulting in loss of life. The most recent major earthquake was the 921 Earthquake, which struck on September 21, 1999, and claimed 2,415 lives. -Wikipedia on earthquakes in Taiwan When you decide to build a 509.2 meter tall skyscraper [...]
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