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Taiwan Storyland, Taipei

Posted on June 10, 2010 | 6 Comments
It almost sounds like the name of a fantasy-themed amusement park, doesn’t it? Even the entrance, pictured above, invokes mental images of fairies flitting about in an enchanted forest. I fully expected to encounter scenes based on the Monkey King and other figures from Chinese...
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Huashan Culture Park, Taipei, Taiwan

Posted on May 10, 2010 | 5 Comments
When I left yesterday morning for Huashan Culture Park in Taipei I fully planned on bringing back an SD card filled with photos of guys with their faces painted in black, yellow, red, green, and white. It was South Africa Day 2010, after all. When...
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Taipei Astronomical Museum

Posted on April 13, 2010 | 2 Comments
Yes, I’m a science geek. I love learning the broad strokes of how things work and the future possibilities of what’s just on the scientific horizon. Of course, I’m not interested in all forms of science. Any dicipline that involves a lot of math in...
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Death of the Tao

Posted on August 7, 2009 | 9 Comments
It starts by hopping a train from Taipei in northern Taiwan to Taitung in south-central Taiwan. This is followed by a shuttle bus (or taxi if you don’t have any local friends to tell you that there is a shuttle available) from the train station...
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