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WoWasis drives Taiwan’s Northeast Coast National Scenic Area

Beginning just 50 km east of Taipei is what we here at WoWasis believe to be one of the most scenic drive in Taiwan, the Northeast National Scenic Area route, along Provincial Highway 2. Here, you’ll see marvelous sea views, wonderful geological formations, and several lighthouses. It starts at Nanya, and runs 66 km south […]

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WoWasis visits Taiwan’s National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium

Visitors to Taiwan’s southern-tip Hengchun Peninsula should be certain not to miss the National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium. Here, you’ll see a vast, colorful array of corals and the fascinating creatures that inhabit the reef area, as well as a wonderful collection of sea animals that to a large extent, swim around you, […]

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WoWasis visits Taiwan’s magnificent Taroko Gorge

Located between the Northeast Coast National Scenic Area and the East Coast National Scenic Area, the magnificent Taroko Gorge is Taiwan’s primary tourist destination after Taipei, and well worth the effort of going there. Bus tours can be easily booked from Taipei, and any traveler to Taiwan is recommended to carve out a day or […]

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WoWasis visits the Kending National Forest Recreation Area in southern Taiwan

Located in the heart of Taiwan’s Hengchun Peninsula,and southwest of the East Coast National Scenic Area,  this immense botanical forest and garden encompasses over 1,000 acres. It’s no quick buzz-through, as the quirky trail design takes some getting used to, and the numbering system doesn’t follow a logic intelligible to us. We’d recommend a minimum […]

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Scuba diving in the Kending area of southern Taiwan

We here at WoWasis love to scuba dive. And we heard the coral reefs were great here at the southern tip of Taiwan. The bad news is we didn’t go diving, and we’ll tell you why. The good news is there may be a solution. Our adventure began when a couple of nice guides at […]

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Rafting on Taiwan’s Siougulyuan (Xiuguluan) River

Located along the beautiful East Coast National Scenic Area is the Siougulyuan River. Veteran and beginning rafters alike will enjoy  the moderately challenging Siougulyuan River, with additionally provides a nice getaway from the heat and humidity. It’s easy to do, once you arrive in the eastern town of Rueisuei, a few km inland from the […]

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WoWasis book review: Guidebook for Taiwan by National Geographic

Whenever we’re in a foreign country, we here at WoWasis always travel with a guidebook: they’re easier to use and markup than online guides, and we always end up running across stuff by accident that we wouldn’t have discovered otherwise. Our local bookshop only carried one guidebook for Taiwan, and that’s how we acquired (and […]

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Leafsnap phone app allows you to identify trees instantaneously

Here at WoWasis, we’re often curious about what kind of tree we’re seeing in Asia, but don’t want to carry a tree guide (book or human) around with us. So now there’s a solution, that while focused on North American trees, will allow iPhone and iPad users to begin identifying Asian trees as well. It’s […]

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WoWasis spa review: Wilbur Hot Springs in Northern California

So why is your WoWasis Asian field team in California for a spa review? Because we heard that many Asian visitors go there on visits from overseas, and now we can see why. Wilbur Hot Springs is located roughly 2.5 hours north of San Francisco, 22 miles from the town of Williams on Interstate 5, […]

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Shop at the new WoWasis Spycraft eStore for exotic covert gizmos & goodies

A number of WoWasis visitors comprise folks who’ve dealt in covert ops, detective work, and general surveillance, and sometimes don’t find it all that easy to find well-working trade goods. Our WoWasis Spycraft eStore is the answer. But it’s not just for ops folks, either. If you’ve ever accidentally locked yourself out of a rental […]

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