Travel to Taiwan

Sunny Lake

After the quake about 5 years ago, the island in the middle of the lake shrunk by 1/2. But the tourist to this area Have doubled. This is a nice get away resort town in Taiwan. It is cool during hot summer months. There you will find an awesome restaurant  right next to the Lake. Called "Sunny Lake Wonder" located near the Lalu Hotel. The decore and envience is very modern and they serve various flavours of tea, coffee, and tropical drinks. They have many combination food plates that are sophisticated and colorful in taste. The cheff is very skillful in preparing local delicacies offered at a very reasonable price. This is a must see for travelers.

Luodong

Luodong is an urban town located in the central part of Yilan County, and its name comes from the Taiwanese aboriginal word Rutung. This town is famous for its large and beautifully landscaped sports park, and has a big night market featuring the local food. There is another park in Luodong, more family oriented than the sports park, and the community organizes dance clubs and recitals specially for the elders.

Yilan County

Yilan County is located in northeastern Taiwan and is famous for its ILan International Children’s Folklore and Folkgame Festival. This festival happens each summer at Dongshan River Water Park, and attracts countless children, and not so children, since 1996. Another famous festival is the Green International Film Festival in Taiwan, that started in 2004 and it is is a non-competition film festival that aims to build up an archive collection of the selected works for research and education.

Hualien

Hualien is located near the spectacular Taroko Gorge, on a strip of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Central Mountain Range. This city considered one of the most pleasant cities in Taiwan, and has many tourists visiting the city to enjoy the scenery and fresh air. among the activities you can do while there,  you have the Hualien Ocean Park, with 8 zones that shows marine and ocean life in their different aspects, Beibin Seashore Park, Nanbin Seashore Park and Meilun Seashore Park, which are a scenic area of palm trees and green landscape, running the full length of the city's foreshore.

Sun Moon Lake

Sun Moon Lake is located in Yuchih, Nantou, and is the largest lake in Taiwan, at 748 meters above sea level. We can find in the middle of the lake the Lalu Island, which is the holy ground for the Thao tribe. It is not permitted to swim in the lake, but there is an annual 3-km race called the Swimming Carnival of Sun Moon Lake, which is held near the Mid-Autumn Festival, along with other festivities with fireworks, laser shows, and concerts.

The National Palace Museum

Not to be confused with the Palace Museum that is in the Forbidden City, The National Palace Museum is a museum and art gallery located in Taipei, and contains one of the biggest collection of artifacts and artwork of ancient China in the world. Among its pieces, we can find some that are very famous like the "Jade Cabbage" which is a piece of jade sculpted like a cabbage, the "Painting of One Hundred Horses" and a stone that looks like meat.

Sun Yat-sen Memorial

Located in Taipei, this memorial is to the Republic of China´s Father of the Nation, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. It is a social educational and cultural center now, for the Taiwanese, and the memorial was completed on 1972. In the beginning, it displayed revolutionary events of Dr. Sun Yat-sen at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and now counts with multi media theater, performance hall and professional library.

Chiang Kai-shek

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a memorial located in Taipei City, for the late President Chiang Kai-shek. It shares the grounds of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Park with the National Concert Hall and National Theater and is one of the city's defining landmarks. There are several ponds and parks throughout the memorial, with well-maintained lawns, trees, and walking pathways. The ponds are filled with the colourful goldfish that are also found in many sacred places and temples throughout Taiwan.

Taiwanese Aborigines

Taiwanese aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, and their ancestors are believed to have been living on the islands for approximately 8,000 years before major Han immigration began in the 1600s. They are closely related to the Malay peoples of Austronesian descent of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. For centuries, the Formosan tribes experienced economic competition and military conflict with a series of conquering peoples, and as a result of these intercultural dynamics, as well as more dispassionate economic processes, many of these tribes have been linguistically and culturally assimilated.

Penghu

The Penghu Archipelago, Pescadores, consists of 64 separate islands in the Taiwan Strait, roughly midway between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland. Fishing is the major source of income, and a meal of fresh seafood is a must for visitors. The islands offer fascinating sightseeing, with ancient temples, farms, fishing villages, friendly people, fine beaches, and rugged coastlines. Fishing, swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving, wind surfing, and boating are the major recreational activities in the archipelago. This Reserve protects a unique basaltic lava formation to the east side of the Penghu Archipelago.