Tainan

Trip Start Jul 08, 2008

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Flag of Taiwan Tainan, Taiwan
Monday, December 7, 2009

I headed back up the coast to Tainan, the oldest city in Taiwan and capital during imperial times. Its age and history gives the city a lot more character than the common grid format of other cities. The first day I had a wander around some of the more significant temples which has the added pleasure of checking out some good eating places as there is always veggie food places around the temples. The next day I met up with Matt and he took me down to the trading port of Anping and then gave me a tour of Tainan.

Dongyue Temple

I wanted to hire a motorbike the following day and head across the island from east to west. The ride was meant to be amazing as you crossed the mountain range. At the highest point in the middle and you reach 2731m, usually when I am that type of high it is trekking so doing it on a motorbike sounded fun. Matt said he would help me hire a motorbike and when we had exhausted all the options in town without any joy as no one was happy to hire without local documentation Matt, very generously, rented the bike for me using his details. We headed off to grab some food and I managed to convince Matt he should join me for the ride. Matt was a bit reluctant at first as the road was still meant to be in a bad way after Hurricane Morakot but agreed and said he would check out the state of the road on the internet. So we agreed to meet early the following morning to head off.

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