Kinmen County Consisting of two substantial islands and a few uninhabited rocks, Kinmen County (population: 112,000) is where Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese Nationalists stopped the Communist advance. Battles involving […]

Just 45 km west of Taiwan’s main island, Penghu County’s 90 islands have been inhabited by Han Chinese people for over 1,000 years. Because of water shortages and […]

Taiwan’s southernmost county, Pingtung offers an attractive blend of beaches, bucolic villages and lofty mountains. Covering almost 2,800 km2 but with fewer than a million inhabitants, it guarantees […]

It may lack a coastline, but Nantou County has more than its fair share of splendid landscapes. In addition to Sun Moon Lake, the county’s borders cross the […]

Two hundred years ago Lugang (often spelled ‘Lukang’) was Taiwan’s second-largest settlement. Every year, thousands of junks unloaded cloth and crockery in its harbour, then loaded up with […]

A city with more than it’s fair share of good restaurants and museums, Taichung now has a population of just over 2.6 million. In addition to a modern, […]

Hakka people make up just one-seventh of Taiwan’s population, but constitute the majority in a broad belt of hilly country which reaches from near Taiwan’s main international airport […]