Two weeks ago I finally discovered the number one sales pitch for studying in Tainan-Taiwan. NCKU is among Taiwan’s top 3 schools and all that, but why would anyone come to study International Business here? The Tainan Science Park and
Kaohsiung’s ZuoYing : FengShan West Gate, Chi Ming Tang Temple, Spring and Autumn Pavilion and Love River
To make up for what I missed in the first time I’ve been to Kaohsiung and Zuoying (“Touring Kaohsiung’s ZuoYing Lotus Pond – Tiger Dragon Pagoda, Emperor of Dark Heaven, Confucius, and Old City FengShan“) I revisited that area again
Autumn-Spring in Tainan – not what you’d normally expect
Tropical weather usually doesn’t really allow for an authentic autumn-spring look, but, riding around Tainan city the past month I came across a few beautiful autumn-spring spots. Next the Tainan City Council: And in Dong-Fong road, next to the
Tainan celebrates freedom with the Koxinga cultural festival
347 is a special number, Buddha knows why, so Tainan decided 347 years for Koxinga’s conquest of Taiwan is a good occasion for a grand event to celebrate freeing the island from the Dutch. Koxinga, otherwise known as Cheng Kung

Teaching the Taiwanese the Hebrew Israeli national anthem at the Taiwan Holocaust museum
This was one surreal afternoon I wasn’t excepting. Turns out the small Holocaust museum in Tainan County’s Bao An is doing a ceremony to celebrate 60 years for Israel’s independence and so they invited me to help them out. I
Tainan’s Flower Market
Last weekend, while I was driving down Nan Men road I noticed there’s a market there that I haven’t paid attention to before. Turns out it’s the Tainan flower market, where one can find a great variety of flowers and
Touring Kaohsiung County on Tomb Sweeping holiday : The majestic Fo-Guang-Shan temple
This, I wasn’t expecting. Big Buddha up on the mountains I’ve seen before in Thailand and HK, and since the Taiwanese I asked didn’t seem to think much of it, I didn’t think it would be anything special. Fo-Guang-Shan with

A night around Tainan : Tainan Culture Center & live music at Pioneer Pub
Even after living here in Tainan for a few months I keep discovering great new parts of Tainan in a way that makes me wonder how come I’ve never been there before. I sometimes just ride around with a friend
Around India in 24 days – a trip summary
It took a while to finish all the posts about India, but now it’s finally concluded. Here’s the course of my trip plotted on a Lonely Planet map. Following are the India posts about my 24 days around India: India
India – Day 23-24 – Last days in Mumbai
Last days of the trip I spent rediscovering Mumbai, which I kind of ran away from in my first day in India, hoping to catch a more relaxing country-side beach-side chillout. To get a good overview of Mumbai, my dad