Taiwan

To summarise Taiwan as a tourist destination, I found that it was quite underrated with much mountainous and tropical paradise scenery, friendly locals, great food, and very interesting culture. I see Taiwan as an ideal destination for both family holidays and...

Today I would sadly be leaving Taiwan. I had a great time, and Taiwan was even more amazing than I expected – there was a large part of me that was kind of hoping I would miss my morning flight home. In fact, I didn’t even look up ahead of time what terminal I would...

My final day in Taiwan. Din Tai Fung Earlier in the trip, an old work colleague of mine, Davidson, had contacted me after he realised, I was in Taiwan. Turns out, he had moved to study in Taiwan. Today, our schedules finally aligned so we could go to the famous Din...

Longshan Temple My plan today was to tick off a few sight-seeing items for Taipei, starting with visiting Longshan Temple. I travelled to the temple on my motorbike, and parked in a rather interesting underground carpark that was specifically for motorbikes with small...

Elephant Mountain In the morning, I got up to go hike up Elephant Mountain. I made the 15-minute motorbike trip over to the start before commencing my journey up the steep steps leading to the lookout over the city. It was very hot walking up even though it was in the...

Today would be the day that I would be heading back to Taipei for the remainder of my time in Taiwan. Before heading back to Taipei, I had organized that I would return the car at mid-day allowing me some time to visit the 921 Earthquake Museum in Taichung in the...

Today I would be moving on to the last city before going back to Taipei, Taichung. In the morning I was quick to return my Gogoro and head back to the train station to get on a bullet train to Taichung. Something that I was hoping I would be able to do in Taichung,...

This would be the day I would leave Kaohsiung. Slightly sad to leave, as I had a lot of fun I had some local breakfast involving soup, bacon, and an omelette-like dish. After finishing breakfast, I got on the train to Tainan, once again having no plans as to what I...

In the morning I met up with a local friend who took me to one of the icon chain bubble tea restaurants around Taiwan called Chun Shui Tang where we ate chicken feet and a spicy tofu soup for breakfast with some nice, not too sweet bubble tea. We then drove to the...

This was the day where I would be dropping of the car sadly. Feeling very tired, I took the Tesla to the Kaohsiung HSR station to be picked up by a driver from the rental company. He inspected it and confirmed it was all good and I would receive the bond. While it was...

Lotus Lake This would be my last full day with the car as my plan was to make the rest of the journey back up to Taipei along the east coast using public transport and the high-speed rail. In the morning I drove from my hotel to Lotus Pond in Khaosiung to have a walk...

Today would be an action-packed day aiming to tick of most of the highlight sights in Kenting. It also happened to be some kind of public holiday in Taiwan on this day, so the streets and roads were quite packed. In the morning I drove around the area looking at the...

Today I had no idea where I was going, so I started by driving to Taitung. Along the roads which were quite scenic and comparable to something like the Great Ocean Road, I stopped at a few different places to take photos of the rock formations in the water, the cliffs...

Today I would be back on the road wasting no time to make the trip to make the drive from Yilan to Hualien, still having no idea where I was really going. I had seen some photos of the national park in Hualien, but at the time I did not really know what it was called...

I spent the morning looking around the old street of Jiufen. Back home in Australia we have this Taiwanese milk tea franchise called Xing Fu Tang which I really like. I found a Xing Fu Tang in the old street of Jiufen, so I gave it a try. It was like how it is in...

Picking up the Tesla rental Today I woke up around 2pm with many missed calls both from the hotel reception, and the car rental company, as I was supposed to pick up a Tesla rental and check out of my hotel that morning. As soon as I realized the time, I raced to pack...

Going into this trip, I did not have any plans or arrangements apart from flights, car rental for 1 week, 1 night in an airport hostel and a rough idea of what I wanted to see. My intentions were to do one lap of the mainland of Taiwan seeing as much as possible in...