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Life around Taiwan’s northern coastline is a treasure trove of scenic spots and possibilities. Providing the weather is nice, it’s one of the best scenic drives in Taiwan for motorcycle enthusiasts, because everything is easily accessible and within a day’s ride.
If you’re looking for an interesting day trip, you don’t need to go much farther [...]

The journey through Taroko Gorge National Park in Taiwan is one of the nicest rides I’ve been on in all our travels. We’ve returned twice to this unbelievable jewel of a national park and each time our experience has been different. Even with the light rain showers, we still made our way slowly along the [...]

We came upon a lively fish market at Shingang Harbor near Chenggong while traveling along Taiwan’s Eastern coastline. We found it by chance while looking for the Taitung National Aquarium, and once we realized we had arrived just in time to watch the local fishermen bringing their catch in for the day, we decided to [...]

The Formosa Naruwan in Taitung City treated us well after our long, tough ride over the the mountains along the Southern Cross-Island Highway. We had arrived in Taitung the previous night, after leaving Baolai at 9am and journeying for twelve long hours on the road.
The hotel is a 5 star luxury resort, featuring native aboriginal [...]

View from the summit of Meishan.
Day two of our motorcycle journey started thirteen hours later after sleeping on a rock-hard, unforgiving bed.  Despite five years in Asia, I’ve never been able to get used to the mattresses here.  I guess that makes us both wusses.  Besides which, we couldn’t deal with our noisy next door [...]

Our motorcycle excursions brought us to this wacky little dwelling at Basian Caves, which is located along Taiwan’s Eastern Coastline on Highway 11.
Note: Please see my comment below in reference to the Buddhist swastika on the front gate.

John loaded the bike in Tainan.
We came back from our annual motorcycle trip around Taiwan just a few short weeks ago. Last year, we spent six days traversing the Central Cross Island Highway. This year, we decided to travel from west to east along the Southern Cross Island Highway.
Our first day dawned bright and [...]

Multi-hued starfish.
No journey to Kenting is complete without making a stop at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium (NMMBA) at 2 Houwan Road, Checheng, Pingtung in Taiwan. This museum is top notch and well worth the$450NT (approx $14 US) admission price to get in.
The museum exhibits the diverse natural water [...]

We’re back from a lovely long weekend in Kenting. This was our first journey to Kenting National Park in Southern Taiwan. We met up with some friends from work on Saturday afternoon at the High Speed Rail Station in Banciao. Our tickets cost us $1460 NT each.
We traveled just over 300 km in 90 minutes [...]

John and I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Kenting National Park over the long weekend. We were on the go 24/7 and we’re absolutely bushed. I couldn’t resist posting these beach pictures though.
Our day at the beach wasn’t all sunshine and blistering hot sun. It was interspersed with brief [...]