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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Pingzhen city, Taoyuan, Taiwan by TravelPod blogger Yamahuh titled “SEAsia – The Master plan” Yamahuh’s travel blog entry: “South East Asia: December 2007 – February 2008 It all started innocently enough, as so many things do, with a casual suggestion to our daughter that she might like to take advantage of the annual Christmas break to escape the biting cold of a typical southern Ontario winter and travel to someplace a bit more exotic, balmy and … well…foreign. Owing to May having never being one to do today what can reasonably be left until tomorrow, we figured nothing much would come of the idea but, to her credit, and after only a mild amount of nagging and veiled threats to forget the whole idea, she came through and booked her ticket. Before long the casual suggestion had morphed into an ambitious plan; including planes, trains, boats and death defying buses, to experience some of the tourist ‘must-see’ highlights of three countries in as many weeks and not kill each other while doing so. The Master plan: Prior to May sending confirmation of having booked her ticket we were unwilling to make too many concrete plans in case she decided, for whatever reason, that she wasn’t going to come. However once she was ‘in’ the planning began in earnest. Days became weeks of reviewing Lonely Planet travel guides and sifting through countless web sites in order to eventually formulate a rough and moderately adaptable …
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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Tainan, Taiwan by TravelPod blogger Teamrocket8 titled “Journey to the Shangri-La aka. Tainan Day 1″ Teamrocket8′s travel blog entry: “So after I finished the blog last night, I decided to check on Wotif.com whether there were any cheap last minute places. To my surprise, I was able to find a few. The best of all was the Shangri-la Hotel, which was only USD2 a night! Including booking fee, that works out to only be AUD a night which is a bargain! Possibly the best bargain I’m going to get on this trip I think. I was so ecstatic that I was gonna run and tell Daniel, but realised that it was 3am and he’d be asleep so I’d ask him about it the next day. So I went to bed rather happy and when I asked him the next day, he was fine with it so I booked it immediately. Being rather satisfied with that, we went to the Taipei Main Station to catch the HSR to Tainan. It was much easier to find where everything was this time with Daniel around. We got on the train and I have to say, it was an extremely comfortable ride – the seats were wide enough for me, there was plenty of leg room even when the seats in front reclined. Being modeled on the Japanese Shinkansen, I’m hoping that it will be very similar in Japan also. We arrived in Tainan about 1 hour and 45 minutes later (which actually didnt seem that long at all) and there were free shuttles to take us to the city centre (the HSR station is about 15-20kms away). The Shangri …
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