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 Tea set from Taiwan by Arm-Chair-Hero
A good place to cool down and get a drink is Mc Donalds.....it will be air condition and will be one of the few oppertunities for you to find a toilet. Public toilets are difficult to find in Taiwan. Mc D`s is the safest bet....coke and toilet ; ) Leave a Comment
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 Gold medal for a tourist by Arm-Chair-Hero
Crossing the road is very difficult.....there are large volumes of traffic that have no fear in just skimming you...............red lights are often ignored. The best option is to find a little old lady and cross with her.
To say there are large volumes of traffic I did not witness any road rage.......quite strange I found.........
be carefull crossing roads Leave a Comment
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 The bridge at Linyuan, south
of Kaohsiung by WeiLong
People will also chat away on mobile phones while hurtling down the road on their scooters. You will occasionally see someone riding in the rain whilst holding an umbrella. How asurd is that! What if they got a phone call? Leave a Comment
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After we left the national palace museum, we wanted to take a cab back. We had taken a cab to the museum. It had cost $130 or so. There was a taxi queue outside the main entrance, so we grabbed a cab. The cabbie demanded $1300 cab fare. This was rather a shock. (For comparison, we took a cab from Taipei to Chiang Kai-shek int'l airport, which is four or five towns away, and the fare was only about $800.) We decided he was waiting for a dumb tourist. We walked a block and hailed a cab. The fare back was about $130. Leave a Comment
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 "Speedy Joe" will never
learn...fi by kenmerk
Safe Motoring everyone... Leave a Comment
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 picture of the TV Breaking
news: Typhon arriving!! by PtiteCarotte
In September 2002, i was in Taipei when a typhon arrived. It was incredible a wind you cannot imagine, water falling like a giant waterfall and people rushing into the stores to buy and stock instant noddles....
What to do: if you can fllee to a safer town, just do it quickly before it arrives, otherwise put unstable things inside, stay home with bottle of water and instant noodles....then wait with all the zen you can find inside u! Leave a Comment
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busy street, number of motorbikes far more than cars... pay attention when you are on the street! Should apply for travelling visa a bit earlier before you go there. for those who had been to there with travelling visa, next time you will only have to apply for visa by the time you are there. Leave a Comment
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The island shows a lot of tectonic activity. In Hualien I experienced the strongest earthquake in my life (definitely stronger than those I experienced in Tokyo, where I lived for almost a year). In recent years strong hurricanes of caused many casualties and have devasted wide areas of Taiwan. Leave a Comment
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At first I was worried that my incoming flight would be delayed due the impending typhoon.
When the typhoon lashed downtown Taipei, I stayed indoor like the locals but right after the typhoon, we went driving around to check out the damage. Actually, it is not advisable as there could be broken power lines and better to keep roads clear for emergency operation.
There were many typhoon related scrolling advisories and advisories on all major tv networks, They are all in Chinese as the typhoon approached. So check with the locals and stay safe.
Usually the weather after the typhoon has passed is fantastic - clear skies. Unfortunately due to the damages on roads, it affected my planned trip to other parts of Taiwan.
The same sense of heeding warnings and following the local authorities when it comes to another natural disaster common in Taiwan - earthquake.
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 Singing in the Rain..... by kenmerk
Probably safe to expect 3 to 4 a year... One good thing tho', the extra water in typhoon season certainly gets the many waterfalls flowing.... (landslides, too......) Leave a Comment
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