Taiwan: lovely little country off the beaten (western) path
What can I say. Let's start with: Taiwan is an amazing country. If you like the mountains, beautiful nature, good food and friendly people, then Taiwan is the right place for you. It also is definitely off the standard tourist track for western people. So a lot of reasons to go here. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's first do a short (haha) description of my time here. I arrived in Taipei around midnight and was a bit worried how everything will go. But my friend Ying-chu had prepared me well. On arrival everything went smooth, I caught the bus heading to the Taipei main station directly and was in my hostel around 1:30. My hostel was not really nice so first thing next morning I moved to another one. And this time I picked well. It was a very cool place. I couldn't check in yet but could already do my laundry there. In the afternoon I met with Ying-chu. It was so great to see her again! Readers of my previous blogs may remember her. We managed to meet up in Peru ...