Taitung

Off Taiwan’s Tourist Trail

The more obscure the Taiwanese destination, the more visiting it tends to reward you.

There is no bullet train to Taitung.

Will attending the Taiwan International Balloon Festival change your life?

There are key differences—exciting differences, frankly—between these two jewels in Taiwan’s crown.

Lyudao is like a distilled version of Taiwan itself, with a more concentrated beauty that overwhelms you at every turn.

Lanyu feels the ends of the earth—or, at least, the end of Taiwan.

Just because something seems small or physically confined, doesn’t mean that it always has to remain so.

It’s difficult for me to pit Hualien and Taitung against one another, given how much I love both of these cities.

Departing a state of mind isn’t always as simple as departing a location, but it usually pushes things in the right direction.