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Foreigners and Expats in Taiwan Find Friends Online Easily

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

If you are basically new to Taiwan, and are still afraid to go out and meet new friends in Taiwan, due to the language barrier, you can easily find new friends online.


Yes, there will be no need for you to dress up and prep up just for you to find friends in Taiwan. You can easily do so, without having the need to go out, with just your computer and the internet, you will find not just one but a lot of new friends easily.

Regardless of your age, gender, background, etc. you too can start learning every nook and cranny of Taiwan. What’s more, you can also find other people like you who are basically searching for new friends online. No wonder meeting friends online today is as easy as ABC and as quick as 123, with the help of the internet, meeting people even from other parts of the world is now an option available to all of us.

Most foreigners in Taiwan nowadays, are finding it easy to soak in the culture and the language with the help of their online friends. Being able to learn everything easily through their online friends is indeed a welcomed changed. While Taiwan expats are also finding things easy to be able to mingle with natives through the help of their online friends. Being able to enjoy a different place, without the need to actually go out and explore first, is an option that you too can avail.

If you happen to be someone who doesn’t really like to mingle with strangers in a new and strange fun place, then meeting people online is something that you must try. Not only will you be able to find friends from all over the world, you can also find people from the same area as you are. If you think that you are not up to meeting someone face to face, then you can always resort to exchanging a couple of e-mails or chat with the person before the actual meeting. That way, once the two of you decided to finally meet up, then the both of you will end up feeling comfortable enough, since you have been exchanging details about each other.

Whether you are a Taiwan expat or just foreigners in Taiwan, feel free to enjoy the city, the life, the culture and the people without leaving the very comforts of your home with the help of Taiwan dating sites. Meet new people from Taiwan or from around the globe now!

Popular Tourist Attractions in Taiwan

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Taipei


The capital is congested place, with three million people in the city itself and another three million in the surrounding countryside. That said, it has plenty of attractions to detain you for a couple of days, including atmospheric temples, museums, historic monuments and teeming night markets. If you do nothing else here, visit the National Palace Museum, featuring the world’s finest array of Chinese artifacts, moved here in 1948 by the Kuomintang; it’s such a huge collection that only a tiny fraction is displayed at any one time. Chian Kuo is one of the largest jade markets in the world, with more than nine hundred sellers.

Taroko Gorge
On the east coast, the island’s main tourist attraction features a thundering river, towering cliffs and plenty of excellent opportunities for camping and trekking. The most picturesque route to the gorge is via the 200-kilometre-long Cross-Island Highway from Tungshih, with fabulous scenery – tropical valleys, mountain panoramas and lakes – all along the way

KentingNational Park
In the sunny, fertile lowlands of the far south of the island, this park, near the town of Kenting, has white beaches, forests, an attractive coastlines, waterfalls, hot springs and plenty more to explore. On the beaches, there are plenty of water-sports to try by day and pubs and discos and karaoke bars to choose from at night.

Alishan
At 2190m, the best of the island’s mountain resorts merely offer an escape from the lowland heat; it’s gorgeous spot, surrounded by cedar and pine forests, with the blossoming of the cherry trees a special feature in the spring. Among the numerous treks here, the obligatory excursion is the one to the peak of 2489-metre Chu Shan (Celebration Mountain), where several thousand people jostle every morning for views of the sunrise. Some Westerners are disappointed by the frequently misty weather, but local people are just as happy whatever the conditions, believing that mountain mists contain a high density of qi, the “life force”. The narrow-gauge stream train from Chiayi to Alishan is an especially picturesque route there, taking three and a half hours to climb up through the rolling hills, negotiating 50 tunnels and 77 bridges en route.

Tainan
Temples are the main reason to visit this city, said to contain around two hundred of them. The most famous is the Temple of the Jade Emperor, the oldest Daoist temple in the city, where a constant stream of visitors comes to pray in a highly atmospheric setting; every wall, ceiling and door is adorned with detailed carvings and frescoes, and spirit mediums here are often involved in rituals in which they attempt to contact the dead on behalf of the living

Taking the east coast highway from Suao to Taitung
In places, the road is carved out of cliffs which drop a sheer 1000m into the crashing surf below. The most dramatic past is between Suao and Hualien, which includes a section called Chingshui Cliff where the drops beside the road are especially vertiginous. About halfway between Hualien and Tiatung, the Hsiukuluan River is Taiwan’s most popular white-water rafting area.

Lukang
A major harbour from the twentieth centuries, this small west coast town retains its tiny alleyways and historic atmosphere. In the centre of town, the Lungshan temple, dating from the eighteenth century, has fantastically carved ceilings; it was dedicated to Kuanyin, the goddess of mercy, by Chinese settlers in thanks for their safe crossing from the mainland. The craftsman here still produce furniture, fans, lanterns and incense using traditional techniques, and the Lukang Folk Art Museum is a good place to view fine, historic examples of their art.

Fokuang Shan
This modern temple/monastery complex in the rolling hills northeast of the city of Kaohsiung is the centre of Taiwanese Buddhist scholarship. There are four main temples, all magnificent and spacious, with the largest dedicated to Buddha; its walls are lined with 14,800 niches, each containing a tiny golden Buddha statue. At the other end of the scale, a 32-metre Buddha – the largest on the island – lies in the grounds, surrounded by life-sized statues of 480 Buddhist disciples.