Travel in Asia

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Beach in Taiwan (Small islands)

There are over 30 beaches in Taiwan.

Most of the time, the weather is amazing sunny.
This article introduces the beaches in the small islands (e.g., the green island, the Lamay island, the Orchid Island, Penghu, etc.) near the main island (the Taiwan island) in Taiwan.

Green Island, Taiwan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/valour/2824061445/

Lamay Island, Taiwan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curists/2655381544/

Lamay Island, Taiwan

Penghu, Taiwan
http://blog.xuite.net/karlcpc/bcc/5926858

Penghu, Taiwan

Orchid Island, Taiwan
http://tw.travel.yahoo.com/scene/article/57369

Novel western architecture built by Japanese in Taiwan

Taiwan's Presidential office building

National Taiwan university hospital
http://naturallybread.yam.org.tw/2006-adamanotice/oldhouse-t/oldhouse-t-index.htm

http://www.chphoto.com.tw/100pc11.htm

Beach in Taiwan (the main island)

There are over 30 beaches in Taiwan.

Most of the time, the weather is amazing sunny.

The Southern coast of the main Taiwan island：
Kenting

Kenting

The Eastern coast of the main Taiwan island：
White beach in Hualien

The Eastern coast of the main Taiwan island：
Chisingtan, Hualien

Chisingtan, Hualien

The Eastern coast of the main Taiwan island：
Estuary in Hualien

Estuary in Hualien

The Eastern coast of the main Taiwan island：
Hualien

Reference:
http://www.hl-99go.org.tw/html/front/bin/ptdetail.phtml?Part=blog011&Category=313055
http://www.backpackers.com.tw/forum/gallery/index.php?n=48720
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/van2338/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nodie26/3803524520/in/photostream/lightbox/

Monday, 20 June 2011

Japanese tradtional architecture in Taiwan

Taiwan used to be a part of Japan 50 years ago.

The Japaneses constructed numerous impressive architectures in Taiwan. These architectures can be classified into two categories:traditional Japanese style and novel western style.

For instance, Butokuden and the famous Shinto shrine are traditional Japanese styles. Butokuden are places for practicing Japanese martial art, and as to the Shinto shrine, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto_shrine. There are at least eight Butokuden and at least fourteen Shinto shrine in Taiwan.

Taiwan's Presidential office building is one of the novel western style architectures built by Japanese. Since this was the Japanese's first time trying to build western-style architectures, the architectures can only be seen in Taiwan but not in Japan nor in any other countries in the world.

This article focuses on the architecture of Japanese style.