Welcome to the wild side of Taiwan! Point straight southeast from Taitung, travel for 50 miles or so and you’ll find yourself on Orchid Island (Lanyu 蘭嶼 in Chinese), a popular tourist spot to get as far away from mainland China as possible. The island of 3,000 or so people is rich in aboriginal culture […]
Orchid Island
My Crazy Adventure on Lanyu, Taiwan
Why would anyone go to Orchid Island during a typhoon!? Last year, I had one hell of a crazy (read stupid) adventure on Lanyu (Orchid Island) with my friend Ben… We were sitting at my restaurant, in Taichung, it was around 5 or 6 o’clock in the evening, we were sipping beers and chatting, then the […]