Visiting Taiwan

While Erik was home between his summer and fall deployments, we visited Taiwan for 5 days in early September. Admittedly, our first choice was to visit Beijing and The Great Wall but we had some visa obstacles with that plan. So! How about Taiwan? It has Chinese culture and is a 3 hour flight from Tokyo - fits the bill!

It ended up being a lovely place and the people were very friendly. The country has a really interesting history - a neat blend of Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, aborginal, etc kind of thing going on. It became clear there are different opinions surrounding this (as with most pages of history) and has essentially left me with the question who does like China? Besides Mother Russia, of course. Moving on from awkward political thoughts...

Our journeys were mainly based around Taipei and a couple days in the central counties of the sub tropic country. The south of the island offers many beaches and resorts, however they are still dealing with the effects of the devastating Typhoon Morokat last month.

Here is a slideshow with some pictures set to music from our adventure!

If you'd like to view it in a larger format, click on the arrows on the lower right corner of the video. Once the screen expands, click on the upper right hand corner where it says "scaling is on" to change it to "scaling is off" to make it a reasonable, clearer size.