Lintian Mountain Forestry Center

On our first full morning, we drove to the Lintian Mountain Forestry Center, a large forest that used to be filled with cypress trees but was used for lumbering by the Japanese during the 1920s. Most of the cypress trees have been cut down but the forestry center is still very beautiful and interesting to […]

Hualien – Day 1

After a day in Taipei and Nankang, my dad bought us train tickets so we could travel to Hualien on the east side of the country. The train system in Taiwan is really clean, fast, easy to use, and affordable. We took an early morning train from Taipei to Hualien: The weather in December was […]

Museum of History and Philology, Academica Sinica

On our first full day in Taiwan, my dad brought us to his campus to the Museum of History and Philology. The museum has a lot of original artifacts and rare texts that my dad enjoys viewing so he brought us there for an early afternoon visit. Here I am at the entrance: And Ken: […]

Traveling to Taiwan

Over the holidays, Ken, my mom and I traveled to Taiwan together. We flew from New York to San Francisco and then from San Francisco to Taipei. The flights weren’t too bad because we had a nice layover in San Francisco and we were also able to sleep on the flight from San Francisco to […]


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