New Taipei Travel: Forgotten Futurism ~ Exploring the Abandoned UFO Village in Taiwan

Wanli UFO houses (萬里飛碟屋) A short drive from Yehliu Geopark, Wanli UFO houses are the strangest architectural structures in Taiwan. A few years ago, there were two villages with similar-style houses: Sanzhi and Wanli. The former was demolished in 2010, but the Wanli UFO houses are still standing...

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Learn Chinese: How to order tea in Taiwan

Picture source: https://images.app.goo.gl/7wjFRScdXr9vuSrT7 The main kinds of teas: - Black tea: 紅茶 / Hóng chá - Green tea: 綠茶 / Lû chá - Oolong tea: 烏龍茶 / Wūlóng chá  - Pu-erh tea: 普洱茶 / Pǔ'ěr chá - Milk tea: 奶茶 / Nǎi chá Tea fillings:  - Bubble / boba pearls: 珍珠奶茶...

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Taoyuan Travel: Jiaobanshan Park - the Plum Festival

Travel Date: 2019/01/20Jiaoban Mt. Park (角板山公園)It's plum blossom season, so this time we visited Jiaobanshan Park (also known as Fuxing Park), which has the largest plantation of plum trees. Plums are the earliest blossoms to be seen and are also the national flower of Taiwan. Currently, only a portion...

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Maple Trees and Cherry Blossom - Spring in Miaoli

Upon seeing pictures of a beautiful place with maple trees on a Taiwanese blog, we decided to search for it. The place didn't have a specific address, but we knew it was somewhere along Road 130 in Sanyi. We drove to the area, following the road to Yuanli and then back to the Wood Sculptures Museum....

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AMWF couple: Our first time travel abroad with baby

We went back to Poland for 2 weeks to celebrate Christmas, and it was our first time traveling with our baby. Our son was 8.5 months old at that time. I felt really stressed before the trip, worrying that he would cry all the time like other kids I had seen on airplanes.Our journey took more than a...

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