Visiting a friend in Keelung we were exploring around in Keelung, when my friend’s mother suggested a special spot near where she works with a special Aboriginal touch. We made our way up to a hanging bridge, hidden away in the middle of no-where… and found this worship spot at the top… with a gorgeous [...]

Visiting a friend up in Keelung the other week, I was shown parts of Keelung I haven’t been to before which were a wonderful surprise. Welcome to He Ping Island (He Ping Dao), with some of those famous north-eastern odd rock formations laid out with Keelung Island (Jilong Yu) on the background : When was [...]

After completing the drive from Tainan through Paolai, Mei Shan and the beautiful mountain road I arrived at the east coast. The valley stretching out from the high mountains of central Taiwan to the mountains of the east coast was absolutely breath taking. The views I’ve seen there were more beautiful than anything I’ve seen [...]

This scenic coastal cross island road number 20 is absolutely gorgeous. If you have the time, you should definitely take it, preferably very slowly, and see some of Taiwan’s beautiful natural scenery. I did it for a whole day, stopping in amazing spots, hiking a bit, exploring some paths and natural hot-springs. That whole area [...]

A few weeks ago, just before the semester started, I went on a short trip towards Taiwan’s east coast. Following many recommendations I’ve read, I wanted to do that the hard and beautiful way – through the scenic road number 20, going all the way form Tainan in the west to Tai Dong in the [...]

While in Taichung, I went to visit a little local park they simply call “Folk park”. It’s an old Taiwanese residence, I think, a bit like Lin Family House up in Taipei, featuring… Chinese style garden and ponds…   Chinese style architecture restaurant, temple and shopping center …   A folk museum…   and a [...]

Israel, as usual, is highly optimistic, and the Chinese tourists are the just what the sleepy tourism market in Israel needs to reinvent itself. Ynet has more on the issue with “The Chinese are coming” (The Hebrew article can be found here) : According to new agreement, Israel to be approved by Chinese government as [...]

A week after arriving back in Israel my dad, who’s doing tour guiding as a hobby to selected groups of friends and family, took a group from his workplace to see a part of Jerusalem most locals, like myself, don’t really know about. Here’s the little I was able to find about it in English [...]