Taiwan

April 24, 2025April 24, 2025 By ivakhovskaya

3 April Days in Shizhou & Alishan, Taiwan: the engagement edition!

We had spent four days running through Taipei, but I had strongly suspected that going to Shizhou & Alishan would be my favorite part of Taiwan. As much as I love museums, history, shopping, learning about people and their culture – all of which were abundant in Taipei, nature always calls my name. That being…

April 20, 2025April 21, 2025 By ivakhovskaya

4 April Days in Taipei, Taiwan

Two months before settling in on Asia, I needed to be convinced by Evan to choose Taiwan. Two weeks before we left, (after we had done crazy amounts of research) I suspected we wouldn’t want to leave. And when we did leave, we actually teared up in the airport, which we have only ever done…