Travelogues Taiwan

As you all know, we have been in Taiwan for a good 2 weeks, specifically in Hsinchu. It is located in northern Taiwan and is about half an hour away from Taipei by high-speed...

Back in Taipei, we realized that summer and the warm temperatures for this year are probably over. So we unpacked our long clothes again and explored the beloved city and...

12/15/18 now it's time with the bike

Eluanbi Lighthouse

Completely unexpectedly and never on my travel plan, if there is one, I ended up in Taiwan for almost a month. Since New Zealand, I haven't written a summary of the whole...

When I arrived in Taitung, I was really surprised to see such a nice hostel and, above all, English-speaking owners. I thought I would feel at home straight away. After I...

Visiting the lovely Wu Mama, who knew Max as a baby. Surrounded by smells that Bella had to get used to. On one of the tallest buildings, Taipei 101. In the humid water up to...

National Palace Museum

A trip to Jiufen, the old gold mining town, is a must for any tourist visit to Taipei. You can easily reach the old gold mining town by bus in about 1.5 hours, and it stops...

Our flight left Seoul on time at 22:40 and we arrived in Taipei shortly after midnight. So far so good, if we hadn't booked our room from this day on and therefore could only...

Bike cleaning, bike transportation, and a long day ahead

Moon

Taitung and Taiwan's East Coast I have now reached Taitung on the East Coast of Taiwan. I was a little disappointed by the small city at first sight. However, my hostel gave me a...

Taiwan :) I just came back tonight from my four-day weekend in Taiwan. It was really beautiful and we were able to see a lot in those four days, although we experienced a cold...

I continued south by train to Hualien. Since the beginning of April, it has been a little more famous in world history due to the rather strong earthquake. In the city itself,...

I then continued south along the east coast of Taiwan. About 1 1/2 hours by bus from Taipei to Yilan. In the new hostel I even had my own mini room in the dorm this time and was...

Taitung

Taroko

The last two days I spent in Hualien and Taroko National Park. Taroko Gorge is really beautiful!

Taipei is the metropolis of Taiwan and here all the threads come together. The city is interesting, but there is also a lot to discover in the surrounding area. So we set off....

Maokong is an area in Wenshan District of Taipei. It is home to tea plantations and connected hiking trails that were once used for transporting tea. It is a popular place to...

Zoo - Shuishou Expressway - Chiang Kai-shek Memorial

On Wednesday we went back to the center of Hsinchu. Here we visited the Zoo and the Glass Museum. They are located next to each other in a small park near the train station....

Weil wir ja schon lange nicht mehr auf einer Insel waren (haha), war unser nächstes Ziel die kleine Insel Liuqiu im Südwesten von Taiwan, die wir ganz gemütlich mit nicht einmal...

As mentioned before, our next destination was the famous and touristy area of Alishan. Besides the famous tea, this area located at an average altitude of about 1500m offers a...

From Taipei, we took a bus to the so-called Sun Moon Lake, which owes its name to its shape, which with a lot of imagination represents the shape of the moon and the sun....

We were only in Taiwan for a day as we had a long layover at the airport on our way to Vietnam. To pass the time and explore a tiny bit of Taiwan, we took the train from the...

over 2500m above sea level and still no snow

Back to nature

Coast Mountains Coast