On our second trip to Taroko we rode the bus to its last stop at Tiansiang (天祥). Located about halfway through the park, Tiansiang is home to a Buddhist monastery, a resort,…

When we first booked flights to Taiwan we knew we wanted to see Taipei, but we also wanted to see some of Taiwan’s natural beauty. A mountain range runs right…

After two weeks in Taipei we took a train to the eastern side of Taiwan to visit the smaller city of Hualien and the famous Taroko Gorge in Taroko National…

Taipei is a bustling city with tiny restaurants, shops, and boutiques every where you look. And we looked in a lot of places. Here’s some of what we saw during our two weeks in town.

During our visit to Taipei we learned some about the nation’s primary forefathers, Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. Sun was the intellectual leader of the movement to end imperial rule…

After three weeks in hot and humid Malaysia, and a total of almost two and a half months of hot weather from Australia to Indonesia to Singapore to Malaysia, we…