Hiking in humid summer weather is quite a challenge, but we felt like it’s still better than staying in for the whole weekend. After searching for shaded hikes in the Taipei area, we decided on[…]
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Hiking with monkeys in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
From Taipei, we took the high speed railway southbound for 90 minutes and spent a long weekend in Kaohsiung. On Sunday, we went on a hike to Monkey Mountain (Shoushan or Chaishan) after the sky[…]
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Day trip to Nara, Japan
On a Sunday of our 4 days in Osaka, we took a train to visit Japan’s oldest capital. During the Nara Period from year 710 to 794, the first capital was established in Nara and[…]
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Hiking Mount Hua (Huashan 華山)
From geography class in school, I learned the top 5 mountains in China and have always been wanting to visit one. Since we were visiting Xi’an, I researched on the possibility to check out Huashan.[…]
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Day trip to Angel Island
Angel Island has been mentioned by previous coworkers and friends independently, so it was on our SF bucket list for a while. Finally when we had a deadline (leaving the Bay Area), we just had[…]
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