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In February ‘16 on my way from Myanmar back to Taiwan I decided to fly via Singapore to explore this garden city. Exhausted after two weeks in Myanmar and slightly sick and coughing because of the dusty air in Myanmar, Singapore was a nice change in comparison to other cities in (South) East Asia. Like always, I got an early...

This post has been pending for a year now. This is probably related to some sort of Goodbye Anxiety (as long as you don’t say goodbye it’s not over yet). But like all good things my time in Taiwan has come to an end and it’s better to move on a go on new adventures before the present wilts. In...

Most of my posts are about places I visited or my travels, but how is actually to study in Taiwan at the National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學)? The first impression of National Taiwan University (NTU or Taida in Chinese) is great, a beautiful green and quiet campus right in the middle of Taipei. NTU is the Taiwan’s flagship university and leader...

As I wrote in my last blog post, my parents arrived in the mid of march and I went on a roundtrip to show them this beautiful island. After we spent two nice days in Kenting (if you want to know more about Kenting, check this blog post), we drove up the east coast to Taidong to get to Green...

In my last entry I mostly spoke about my experiences at Yanshui Fireworks Festival, but something more important changed in comparison to the last term. Around 90% of the people and friends only stayed for one term in Taiwan and left in January. The first days being back in Taipei were therefore quite strange without having your old friends to...

After my trip through South East Asia I returned to Taiwan in the middle of February, right after Chinese New Year. There’s quite some confusion about Chinese New Year and its characteristics. First of all, Chinese New Year is every year on a different day (depending on the lunar calendar), but more important Chinese New Year is less of a...

The last stop on our tour through Myanmar was Mandalay. The second biggest city in Myanmar and well known for its holy Mandalay Hill and a big King’s Palace. After a weird day in Naypyidaw, we hopped onto the bus to Mandalay in the evening. While every bus transfer was really smooth so far, that one didn’t go that well....