The hotel I stayed at had a really fun aesthetic.
RF Hotel
Tag: Taiwan
Taipei
Spent my Chuseok holiday in Taipei, mostly eating.
Chamonix 夏 慕 尼
While in Taiwan the majority of the food we ate was street food, or at traditional restaurants where our friends dealt with ordering food for us. On our final night in Taiwan we decided we wanted to sit down somewhere and not worry. We ended up picking Chamonix, a fancy teppanyaki/French inspired restaurant with set menus. [...]
Flip Flop Hostel
For our one night in Taipei we booked a room at the Flip Flop Hostel. I picked a room on the fourth floor which is the girls only dormitory and also a private room since we'd be getting in late and leaving early. The Flip Flop Hostel is located within walking distance of Taipei Main [...]
Jiufen 九份
One thing we had agreed on as a must before leaving for Taiwan was Jiufen. However it wasn't anywhere near where our friends lived and with our flight leaving early the following morning we decided to cut our visit of Taichung early, hop on a bus, book a hostel in Taipei and spend our last day [...]
Sun Moon Lake 日月潭
Sun Moon Lake is somewhat close to Taichung via bus or car. It can take several hours to get there. So we left early in the morning to get tickets to take a bus there, only to find out, since it was a holiday weekend a lot of other people had the same plan, which resulted [...]
National Taichung Theater 台中國家歌劇院
The National Taichung Theater was one of the next places we visited. We spent a lot of time wandering the first floor where pop up "lifestyle" shops had set up, selling all sorts of art, from artisan soaps and candies to housewares and stationary to showcasing hand painted saxophones. We also explored our way around [...]
Tunghai University 東海大學
On our first day in Taichung our friends took us to Tunghai University so that we could visit the Luce Chapel and try some things made from the experimental farm. The Tunghai University campus is big, enough so that there's a bus that drives about campus, similar to those you'd find in a city (or in the [...]
Taiwan-transportation
After getting home from my tour of Laos I essentially did nothing but sleep for days, eventually went back to work to finish up the school year and moved back into my apartment. (remodeling sucks) After the school year finished I took a long weekend and met with my friend from Daegu and together we [...]