Taiwan
A night view of Taipei, featuring Taipei 101
A day view of Taipei, featuring Taipei 101
Kaohsiung High Speed Rail station
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
Mu Tsuen Spring, Tainan
Tianlai Spring Resort, Taipei
Bailan Village, Hsinchu
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An hour from Taipei, Longdong (Dragon’s Cave) is northern Taiwan’s premier technical climbing destination.
The Holy Ridge is a trail that skirts thousand-metre drops for 15km between Taiwan’s second highest peak, Snow Mountain (3,886m), and Dabajian Mountain (3,490m).
North Nanao River offers extreme, class 4-5 white-water rafting through the intensely rugged canyons of southern Yilan County on Taiwan’s east coast.
Locally designed Taiwanese products photographed inside Villa 32 Hotel and Spa, Taipei
Artist Rahic Talif, Dulan Sugar Factory, Dulan
Poet Tong Yali (above left) and sound artist Wang Yujun (above right), Treasure Hill Artists Village, Taipei
Boutique Owner Joy Hong, The Red House, Taipei
Product Designer Tseng Yung-Ling, Stock 20, Taichung
Architect JM Lin, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei
Artist Liang Jen-hung, Pier-2, Kaohsiung
Toyo Ito's Metropolitan Opera House, Taichung
Film Director Wei Te-Sheng
Film Director Tsai Ming-liang
Film Director Leon Dai
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