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A Trip to Taiwan: Part 2 of 2

Posted in Taiwan, tagged asia expat, bonkers in honkers, Hong Kong, hualien, Taiwan, taroko gorge, walk on April 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »

We were ready to leave Taipei and get some green views and less scooters. We got green; scooters stayed with us.
On the day we arrived in Taipei we wandered to the train station to try and score tickets. We traipsed up to the information desk ready to receive no information whatsoever and were quite aghast [...]

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A Trip to Taiwan: Part 1 of 2

Posted in Taiwan, tagged baoan temple, confucius temple, lonely planet taiwan rubbish, longshan temple, royal palace museum, shilin, taipei, taipei 101, Taiwan, vegetarian kitchen on April 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Last Friday we finished work for one week of Easter break so early Saturday morning we ran screaming for Hong Kong airport and got the hell outta Dodge for a five day hiatus to Taiwan.
The flight from Honkers to Taipei is only roughly an hour and a half. The amount of daily flights are staggering [...]

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