It’s been a hectic and crazy year for us, but finally our comprehensive online guides to Taiwan are finally ready. Myself, Neil Wade, Ross Tweedie and my brother, Phil Dawson have spent the last 8 months or so building the two guides. There is one in English and one that we have had translated into Chinese.
It’s been hard work to say the least. Working full time jobs and then spending the evenings writing and the weekends travelling and visiting places, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed. It gave me a real kick up the arse to get out there and visit some of the places that I had been meaning to go to for a long time but had never gotten round to.
Some of my personal highlights include Guguan which I knew nothing about but absolutely loved, especially the hiking, getting the car stuck in snow at the top of Hehuanshan, and motorcycling up and down the east coast between Hualien and Taidong with Neil this summer.
Each guide is divided up into 5 main areas, Taipei, north, east, south and central and then each area is divided up into specific places, such as Kending, the North East Coast or Danshui/Bali. You can use the site to search for what’s near you or to plan a trip to another part of Taiwan or simply browse through the categories for things that interest you.
We have some 900 places listed including hotels, hikes, hot springs, transport etc. Each place is listed on a google map and the address is in Chinese and English to make it easier to find.
Hopefully next week the mobile app version will be released in the itunes store and each area will be available for download to your iphone, ipad, or ipod. The app version will have online and offline maps so getting directions will be even easier and there are some 2000 photographs included. We will continuously update the app and so, unlike a guide book, you won’t have to wait 3 years to pay for a new version., the update be available for free!
We hope that people find these guides useful and we’d love to hear some feedback about how we can improve them – info at taiwan-adventures dot com
