taiwan

Solo jaunts. Ankang Reception House visited with permission on a tour, the rest visited without. I suppose I'm not really playing catch-up with all the sites I haven't done in Taiwan anymore; if I've missed a site that someone has done before, it's more than likely to be permanently sealed and...

First explores of the year, all solo visits. As those of you that follow my activity will know, I don't have a lot of time to go exploring nowadays, but when I do go it has to count for something... I hope so anyway. So I had three days to go exploring, using Jiayi and Taibei as bases to...

All solo jaunts. I suppose I'm not as active an explorer as I would like to be, even now that I don't work as many hours as I once did. A decade ago it was simply not having enough money or a car, now it's juggling work and being a dad. That means although I think about exploring every day of...

Solo jaunts. This following report begins with a couple of sites which for me just act as tying up loose ends, rather than doing anything truly groundbreaking. To be honest as mentioned in some previous reports, I have gotten over-ambitious at times with sites over here, especially new schools...

Solo jaunts. Where have I been? I didn't realise that I haven't written a report for nearly a year. It's not that I've been inactive or not exploring, although I have definitely spent a lot of time being a dad. The few times I did go exploring in this period weren't really successful. For all...

All solo jaunts. I've not been that busy in recent months with exploring, but I still remain active in the shadows, doing continual research and finding new sites as they continue to appear at alarming rates. If you're familiar with my previous work then you'd know why these sites continue to...

Mixed visits, two done over Chinese New Year and two done in April. Please note there is one additional report which I have not posted here, as it will be saved for a later report. Chinese New Year, February 2024 The elementary schools Though not the most practical time of year to travel in...

Solo jaunts. As this month was my birthday month, I decided to head to a city that I haven't seen too much of in my 7 years of in Taiwan, either derelict or touristy: Tainan. Whilst I'd be enjoying the food after a day's exploring, I had other sites bookmarked on my map which I think would...

Solo jaunts. How does this happen? Unreal. No other word is more suited to this situation than unreal. I've lived in Taiwan since November 2016, and lived in North District between March 2018 and November 2019. I always knew there was one derelict cinema very close to the train station, 10...

Solo jaunts, both visited with permission/legally. What's the story? I was going to post this after doing more exploring, but looking back at my photos I think these deserve their own mini-report for reasons I'll explain later. I had a free Friday as it was Mid Autumn Festival, a public...

Solo jaunt. Jinmen is the name for two islands just off the coast of Xiamen in China, so close that even in cloudy weather the city is visible. Given the tumultuous history and present relationship between Taiwan and China, the island was heavily fortified over the years between 1949, before a...

Solo jaunts. I've sat on this report for a while, but finally cleared the backlog yesterday and got the photos edited and uploaded. Below are a series of minor reports, nothing particularly huge. If anything this venture was a box-ticking exercise to just get some exploring and do some sites...

All solo visits. As you know I've put my Mandarin skills to good use, and I've found an absolute treasure trove of sites. One of them was a full list of disused cinemas, which as you know Taiwan is as synonymous with as the UK and Ireland are with asylums. Many of them were total crap and...

Solo jaunt This one was a seriously, seriously lucky find. No exaggeration. Whilst doing my research for other abandoned sites to visit, this one popped up in a Google search. It's an-almost total unknown, and how it has survived for so long in such immaculate condition is a step beyond...

Solo jaunt. So as you know I have a map of derelict sites I have to do while I'm here in Taiwan, and it so happens to be that there is a cluster of cinemas located in Yunlin, central Taiwan. As one of Taiwan's ex-industrial areas, and now mostly vast farming land, back in the 1940s and up to...