According to Me

I've talked before about the preponderance of motor scooters in Taiwan. In most cases they've become people's legs from short trips down the street to get a bento box or betel nuts, to a jaunt downtown where they can easily be parked on the sidewalks. A couple of years back the government passed a helmet law which [...]

I recently visited Bagua Mountain a fairly well known site in central Taiwan due to it's giant Buddha statue looming over Changhua City. This older fellow was enjoying a nap in the shade on a hot summer afternoon. Some mainland Chinese tourists seemed to be surprised by my willingness to take photos of the sleeping older [...]

One of the cool things about Taiwan is that it's a scooter country. One of the key makers of scooters for quite some time, scooters here are equivalent to legs. Need a rice box hop on the scooter for the 1 minute drive, cigarettes, bubble tea, etc. For me the coolest of all are the old Vespas. [...]

Taiwan's aboriginal tribes celebrate their new year in the summer after the harvest of millet. These photos were from the Taichung event. The colors of some of the traditional costumes, particularly of the Amis are so vivid. Very similar color scheme to Mexico and Central America's Mayans. The Austronesian aborigines are supposed to have come from the Asian mainland [...]