Living in a Taiwanese town and wondering what’s to do? Let me help you out a bit. It sounds like a somewhat naive question, but I get that alot, even in relatively bustling lively Taiwanese towns. I got that in Tainan atleast a dozen times this past year, mostly from students. As I know a [...]
Visiting Tainan City and Tainan Country? If you have some time to explore, there are quite a few interesting things for you to see. Following is a list of suggested things to do with an outline for a visit itinerary. A word of caution before I begin – while there’s alot to do I would [...]
Welcome to Baihe township in Tainan County, the "lotus flower country". Every June Baihe celebrates the blossom of this beautiful flower with a special "lotus festival". The "Taiwan Touch Your Heart" website has the introduction : Baihe is counted as one of the seven major ancient towns of Tainan County, and intensive planting in recent [...]
Hidden away in northern Tainan County, in the Siraya Scenic area next to Baihe and Guanziling, lies a small tourist attraction – the Liousi Film Studies. No one but curious me would probably find that interesting, but I adore these kind of places. After the Taiwan Storyland in Taipei, I can’t get enough of places [...]
Tired of standard dining? Taiwan offers a wide variety of themed restaurants for you to choose from. I previously wrote about Taiwan’s toilet restaurants, and there are also Hello Kitty places (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), but this next one I think is slightly more interesting, especially to the male audiences. While driving in [...]
Last week Tainan City hosted the "International Boat Festival 2009". Tainan City and International in the same title sounds a bit like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Tainan’s trying. They put up an English website, prepared English flyers and all, but it’s not quite there yet. It would still take a while for Tainan to be [...]
Tainan garbage trucks are now back into teaching English to the local Taiwanese. After suspending the program last year, someone in Tainan City decided that Tainan can’t do without those valuable English lessons. I was shocked as to the English lesson of last week : If you listen to it, you’ll probably be able to [...]
On one of the Sundays my mother was visiting I decided to take her to see the Chi-Mei private museum in Bao-An. On the way, I took her to see the church in Bao-An that had a small holocaust museum to promote holocaust awareness in Taiwan. I think it’s touching for Israelis for see this [...]
