Taiwan

Pros: on a temperate, unrainy day, the Juming Museum is delightful
Cons: the other three locales are relatively overrun

Taipei can easily get overwhelming. Having written about the more interesting sites within the city, here I am writing about three places to which visitors and (especially) residents repair. Each can be reached within an hour. (A more substantial ...

Pros: Cost and care
Cons: Not a lot of privacy

Review Topic: Practical InformationIn the two years since I've been back in the States, I've mentioned to my husband (more than once) that I miss Dr. Kao and just want to get into an airplane and go see him for medical care. (Once after I called...

Pros: Love of friends, family, and strangers
Cons: my dad and Hubby's parents couldn't attend

Review Topic:  Events & Festivals

You take a Midwestern girl and a southern guy. Have them meet in a church's single group in Taiwan and plan to get married. But where do they get married? Throw in that the father of the...

Pros: Air conditioning
Cons: Can be smoky and edited

The summers in Taiwan (1) are really hot and humid. The first three years I lived there, I had no air conditioner (we joked that I married my hubby for his air conditioning and plane tickets home). My housemates and I needed a way to cool off. So we...

Pros: Friendly people, EXCELLENT FOOD, low violent crime
Cons: humidity high property crime (break-ins if you don't have bars on your windows)

I moved from Taiwan last year and still miss my eight years there. I went over single to teach English in an afterschool school -- about twenty five dollars US an hour. Ended up meeting a American, getting married in Taipei, and even having a child...

Pros: Inexpensive, food if you know where to go, east coast
Cons: Dirty, polluted, sanitary conditions outside of established hotels

Background As a child, I got dragged to the small island of Taiwan every summer for 4 years ...

Pros: Modern Highways
Cons: Rural roads, Heavy traffic

I will start this off by saying driving (either driver or passenger) in Taiwan is not for the faint of heart. If you don't hear parts crunching then everything is OK. The mentality is that everyone is driving a scooter, whether it's a scooter, car, truck...

Pros: Rich culture, kind people, off the beaten path for Americans
Cons: May be more difficult to enjoy without a guide

Trips, plans and holidays, they never live up to my expectations. Somehow, some way, it seems that things just never turn out as I imagine they should. As I traveled to Taiwan about five Thanksgiving holidays ago on a youth ambassador trip, I discovered...

Pros: Lots of Clubs, relatively cheap compared to the states.
Cons: Not much variety in music genre.

This is to give any of you heading to Taiwan an idea of the club scene in Taiwan. Mostly they will be about Taipei, since that is where most of the clubs are located in Taiwan. But there are clubs in Kaoshiang such as the pig and whistle and there are...

Pros: unique experience
Cons: Looong flight

First off, TAIWAN is not a part of China. It has developed in leaps and bounds on its own, and is a fascinating place to visit. It is very modern, but you will still see remnants of its past in architecture and the customs of people. It is amusing...

Pros: Neat cultural and geographical experience
Cons: polluted, dangerous traffic

Kaohsiung, Taiwan is the 13th largest sea port in the world! It's the largest city in the South of Taiwan and represents some extremes in the Taiwan experience. Kaohsiung (pronounced kind of like Gow shoong) itself is unbelievably polluted. The air can...

Pros: Warm, friendly people and climate
Cons: May be too hot for some during summer and fall.

My first trip to Taiwan was in May of 1991 to meet the family of my fiancee. It was my first time outside of North America and other than short trips just over the border into Mexico and Canada, my first time out of the United States.

My...

Pros: beautiful island, nice people
Cons: typhoon season

Having lived in Taiwan for two years and Beijing for one year, I can't help but render a comparison of the two, and perhaps such a comparison will be of utility to those familiar with one and not the other. I lived in Taiwan from spring 1994 to fall of...

Pros: exciting
Cons: Polluted

I went to Taiwan 5 times over the last 3 years and learned a ton. I went to Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung and Pingtung. I went to a small northern village called Jo-fun and the national park, Kenting, on the southern tip of the island.

I loved...

Pros: fun, cheap, and you learn about being Chinese
Cons: nonstellar facilities at one of the campuses (it used to be a for the navy I think)

If you are 18-23 years of age and of Chinese descent, consider going on the Taiwan Study Tour. It's a 6 week program where you learn language (Mandarin) and culture. The last 10 days involve a fabulous motor coach tour of the island.

The...