Wang-an Island Tour (Penghu, Taiwan)
The Penghu / Pescadores Island archipelago’s fourth-largest island, Wangan has secluded beaches, one of Taiwan’s best-preserved traditional fishing villages and the chain’s only nesting sites for the endangered green sea turtle.
12 Districts of Taipei City (Part 1)丨Hack It Formosa 003 - Storyteller of Taiwan
How well do you know Taipei, the biggest metropolitan and also our most visited city in Taiwan?
In this video, we talk about the best known features of each district in Taipei city, from old to new, from fancy apartments to hot springs, and from temples to nightclub areas. As travelers, here are some places for you to visit, explore and at times, to avoid!
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Shanghai Travel Vlog: Meteor Garden 2018 Locations | Kim Mendoza
SAAN NA U DYLAN WANG, D2 NA ME?! Here is my Day 1 in Shanghai, which turned out to be Meteor Garden 2018 themed. Showing you guys a little bit of what my sister and I got up to: we visited shooting locations, walked at the famous Nanjing Road and had expensive drinks at a rooftop bar with the best view. #KimmeWanders
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Video of our latest trip to the islands of Penghu in Taiwan.
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We visited places on the main island and the smaller islands of Qimei and Wang'an. Unfortunately an approaching typhoon messed up our original plan of visiting another island, Jibei. We rented scooters which is the best way to get around. The double heart stone weir was indeed beautiful, the whale cave was impressive too. There was less people on the fine sand beach than we expected. Overall a nice trip.
Migrator Intertidal Homestay (候鳥潮間帶民宿)
Add: 34-3, Chengqian Village, Baisha Township, Penghu County (澎湖縣白沙鄉城前村34-3號)
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Add: 43, Juguang New Village, Magong City (馬公市莒光新村43號)
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Aimen Beach 隘門沙灘
Baisha 白沙
Erkan Village 二崁村
Four-Eyed Well 四眼井
Lintou Beach 林投沙灘
Magong 馬公
Magong Cultural Center 媽宮文化城
Mazu 媽祖
Penghu 澎湖
Qimei 七美
Qingwan Cactus Park 青灣仙人掌公園,
Shanshui Beach 山水沙灘
Shili Beach 時裡沙灘
Taiwan Strait 台灣海峽
Tianhou Temple天后宮主
Tiantai Hill 天台山
Twin Hearts Stone Weir雙心石滬;
Wang’an望安
Xiyu 西嶼
Yuwengdao Lighthouse漁翁島燈塔
Zhongshe中社聚落群
Zhongyang Street中央街
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Travel in Taiwan (2015, 9/10)
By Rick Charette
We woke up bright and early this day to catch an early-morning ferry to Qimei, the southernmost South Sea island. Hopping on scooters right at the pier (rental included in ferry-ticket price), we headed out on the very quiet coastal road – more goats than cars. Qimei’s iconic symbol is the Twin Hearts Stone Weir, made of stones piled laboriously, which fills at high tide and leaves fish stranded at low. The Tomb of the Seven Beauties – “Qimei” means “Seven Beauties” – is built around a well down which seven chaste Ming Dynasty maidens are said to have thrown themselves on the approach of nasty-intent Japanese pirates. Among the other must-visit Qimei attractions we checked off our to-do list were the picturesque Little Taiwan and Waiting for Husband Rock, two coastal rock formations viewed from above.
Rather than traveling straight back to Magong, we stopped off at Wang’an for a few hours’ exploration of this island. The highlights of our meander along the sleepy round-island coastal road? Tiantai Hill and the village of Zhongshe. Your walk up Tiantai Hill, the island’s highest point, leads to wonderful panoramic views over Wang’an and its numerous nearby islands. Wonderful Zhongshe is an old narrow-lane fishing village, almost all homes stone/coral-built. Be sure to stop in for the homemade ice-cream at the shop – shade is at a premium in the village – under the huge Penghu-renowned “Wang’an Township Tree,” an Indian almond tree planted by the shop owner’s mother in 1928.
Penghu is home to many long, fine-sand beaches. Four of the most popular are on the island of Penghu’s south side – Lintou, Aimen, Shanshui, and Shili. On the morn of this day we visited each in turn. I especially like Lintou and Shanshui. Lintou and Aimen are connected by a long beach-edge boardwalk; behind Lintou Beach is Lintou Park, a shady, aesthetically laid-out tree park in which you can sit yourself down to alfresco coffee at a bright and breezy café. At Shanshui’s entrance is a bustling cluster of beach-bum-style eateries and cafés, and backing its west side is an attractive protected lagoon area traversed in part by a long boardwalk. This leads to a high promontory that drops into the surf at the beach’s west end. Topped with a large lookout, formerly part of an off-limits military zone, the promontory is dotted with abandoned camouflaged bunkers, pillboxes, and other facilities, one outfitted with heritage photos and information boards (Chinese) on this spot’s military and ecological past.
Near Shili, pretty much at Penghu’s southwest tip, is the compelling, still-being-developed Qingwan Cactus Park. There are two foci. Cacti, yes – the archipelago’s dry, flattish, windswept environment is perfect for cactus growth. And military history – the park site is a former Japanese military base rich in ruins, notably hidden big-gun emplacements, bunker barracks, and command posts.
⛴{Trip} Taiwan Travel -- KEELUNG 1-Day Trip/基隆 一日遊
On this short trip, we visited a few places in Keelung and had lunch at a dubious restaurant. :)
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Badouzi 八斗子
Baimiwong Fort 白米甕炮臺
Heping Island Park 和平島公園
Keelung 基隆
Keelung Harbor 基隆港
Wangyou Valley 望幽谷
Travel in Taiwan (2015, 7/8)
Wangyou Valley
The sun is blazing as we arrive at a trail in eastern Keelung that will take us down a hill into Wangyou Valley – a rare sight in what is known as Taiwan’s rainy city. Slowly we descend the steps. Coastal plants cover the edges of the trail, their leaves thick and waxy to retain moisture in the salty sea air. Purple-headed thistles spring up among other wildflowers. White trumpet-nosed blooms cling to the steep cliffs. Bulbuls, white-eyes, babblers, and thrushes duck and weave among the dense thickets. Serpent eagles and goshawks soar above a coast that has been ravaged year after year, century after century by typhoons, monsoon rains, and crashing waves.
Peppered, too, amongst the hills are remnants of Keelung’s military past: pillbox guard posts and fortified lookouts peep from the undergrowth, fighting a losing battle against Mother Nature. After climbing to the top of one of the valley’s several peaks, we see the small fishing harbor of Badouzi on the left beyond, while ahead of us stretches the wide expanse of the East China Sea.
Heping Island
To the northwest of Wangyou Valley lies Heping Island. In 1626, the Spanish arrived on this island, declared it Spanish territory, and built a fortification – Fort San Salvador – on the southwestern side. The fort and any traces of the Spanish on Heping Island have, unfortunately, been largely lost to history, but a small snapshot of the island’s colonial years can be seen in the geo park on its northern side. Much like at nearby Yeliu (with its famous Queen’s Head Rock), the main attractions in the park are the divertingly shaped sandstone rocks along the sea’s edge.
Follow the path around the park and you’ll come across the Cave of Foreign Words, a 20-meter-long natural tunnel that pierces a small headland near the eastern edge of the park. Inside the cave there is, purportedly, some 17th-century graffiti left by the Dutch, who took over Fort San Salvador in the 1640s.
Baimiweng Fort
One of several old fortifications perched upon the hilltops around Keelung, Baimiweng commands a spectacular view of both the harbor and the sea. The small, winding lane that leads to the fort is a bit difficult to find, even for Keelungers, says Wang, who, with a painter’s romantic eye, goes on to compare the challenging ascent up the narrow, twisting road to the journey up to the citadel of Évora Monte in Portugal. Reaching the fortifications, you’re confronted with a spectacular vista and four large semi-circular gun emplacements, each of which was capable in its time of hosting a 5.65-meter-long cannon able to fire a steel shell 8.8 kilometers at enemy battleships. Though the current fortifications date back only to the early 1900s, Wang writes that fortifications have been built on this location since the 17th-century colonial conflicts between the Spanish and the Dutch, a fact attested by the fort’s alternate name, Holland Castle. “From here the night view of the harbor is breathtaking,” Wang writes, “and on the other side, far out to sea, you can see freighters slowly entering the harbor, while further away still you can see the sun setting.”
Central Keelung & Harbor
As a busy, working container port, central Keelung is a churning organism of cranes and freight containers, trundling cargo ships and busy-bee tugboats. The narrow streets and alleys that creep out from the narrow central harbor can become, especially on weekends, breathtakingly crowded – a situation abetted by the fact that the nearby Miaokou Night Market is one of the most famous in Taiwan.
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Anytime for Taiwan! 1 country, 12 days, 2 people in love, 10 pounds heavier combined after the trip and a ton of places visited under the short amount of time. This film summarizes our trip. Originally just visiting Sheila's parents for a few days during CNY, then we decided to re-book our flights for an earlier date simply because our itinerary wouldn't fit. So many places to visit!!
Scoured the depths of Youtube for that one efficient video guide, then I stumbled upon the Anytime for Taiwan video contest from Taiwan's Tourism Bureau. Since making travel videos is a hobby of mine I took up a few years ago, we decided to join and take the best footage from our trip under limited time and budget.
Careful planning and two people having fun made this trip the most enjoyable in recent memory.
There are so many amazing places to mention here so I'll give a few places from the film like the majestic Taroko national park, the snowy Mt. Hehuan, the old streets of Jiufen and Shifen, the cherry blossoms of Yangmingshan national park, Sun Moon Lake in Nantou county, and the urban jungle of Taipei.
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3 days in Taipei Taiwan 2019
3 day trip to Taiwan - Taipei, Jiufen, Shifen and Yehliu
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13 Things You Must Eat in Taiwan | The Travel Intern
Taiwan is a foodie’s haven. If you’re heading there, here’s a list of food you HAVE to try!
TAIWAN —
0:11 - Fu Hang Soy Milk for their soya bean and delicious dough fritters
0:17 - Tian Tian Li Restaurant for their aromatic braised pork rice and oyster omelette
0:25 - Ay-Chung Rice Flour Noodles for the famous Taiwanese Mee Sua
TAICHUNG —
0:35 - Dody Duke for their creamy cheese mash potato
0:42 - Thunderball for their cheesy beefball (it’s really DRENCHED with cheese, YUM!)
0:46 - Overlord for their grilled steak with cheese
TAINAN —
0:58 - Da You Xing Yi Noodles for their Taiwanese dry noodles
1:02 - Jinghua 61 for their yummy desserts! We got taro balls on ice.
1:10 - Wang’s Champion Cake for their…. well, champion cakes of course!
KAOHSIUNG —
1:20 - Duck Zhen for their succulent braised duck rice
1:31 - Giant Takoyaki for their mushroom and seafood filled takoyaki!
1:39 - Good To Eat Hot Toast for their bubble tea toast served with earl grey jam!
1:46 - Royal Beef Cubes for their flame-grilled beef! Even the name is making me hungry for some!
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Taiwan Street Food Tour of Ningxia Night Market: AMAZING Taipei Night Market! (Day 8)
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On Day 8 in Taiwan we stayed in Taipei, and I had a few other things to do on my list of attractions in Taipei that I wanted to check out for the blog post guide and video that I plan to make about Taipei. We first went to Wistaria Tea Shop
0:35 Daan Park
In order to walk to the tea house we first got off the Metro at Daan Park and walked through the park. The park is what they call a forest park - so it’s less maintained, but has a more natural and more forest feel to it. I really liked it. It felt a little rustic and there were plenty of birds and wildlife. We didn’t spend too much time there though, but continued on our walk to the tea house.
1:23 Wistaria Tea House
One of the most famous and most well recognized tea houses in Taipei is Wistaria Tea House. Although it’s a Japanese tea house style, they mostly served Taiwanese and other Chinese teas. While I’m more into coffee, I still love tea, and mostly I wanted to check it out to get a taste of some really high quality teas. After having lunch (Taiwanese beef noodles video coming soon) we headed over to Wistaria Tea House. Ying and I had two different teas, one was a green tea, and the other was a black fermented puerh tea. Both were extremely high quality, but I really liked the black puerh tea the most - it had a real earth dirt flavor, but it was so good and so soothing. It was a little on the expensive side, but it was a tea house experience that I wanted to try.
4:45 Ningxia Night Market - Street food
After going to the tea house we met up with Joe and Raymond who we met the previous day on our day trip to Beitou hot springs, and we headed over to Ningxia Night Market to eat some street food and walk around. Ningxia Night Market is yet another great Taiwanese street food market in Taipei that serves a smorgasbord of all sorts of delicious food. One of the most famous things to eat at Ningxia Night Market is the oyster omelet, and there are about 4 very popular restaurants that serve it. After walking around the night market for a while, we stopped at one of the oyster omelet restaurants that looked busy, and ordered one. For the oyster omelet, it was made with oysters, rice flour batter, eggs, and some kind of vegetable, all expertly fried on a large skillet and served with a sweet tamarindy sauce on the side. The sauce was a little on the sweet side for me, but the oysters were nice and juicy and really good tasting. I really liked Ningxia Night Market, because there were lots of things to eat, and there were many street food stall that also had tables to eat at. I ordered a number of different things to try including chicken hearts and all things on sticks. For great Taiwanese street food Ningxia Night Market is a pretty good market to visit in Taipei.
9:17 Taipei 101 at Night
Finally to end the day we headed over to Taipei 101, this time to see it at night and to just walk around. At the malls and sidewalks surrounding the Taipei 101 there is plenty of actions, street shopping and street performances and it’s a pleasant place to wander.
That completes Day 8 in Taipei. The tea house experience was fantastic, and I really enjoyed the Ningxia Night Market as well.
And thank you again to Joe and Raymond.
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