Asia Travel Journal

Asia includes a lot of diverse countries, from parts of Russia and Turkey, to India, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, and many more. I’ll probably get to see only a small subset of them in my life. This category page links to all of the posts from all of the Asian countries I visited after I started this travel journal. Entries on visits to cities and towns in Asia appear under a category page for their respective Asian country.

(I visited only one country in Asia before starting this journal, Japan. I loved it and hope to get back, so don’t be surprised if some entries from Japan pop up here at some point.)

Exploring Anping District

My guidebook recommends a few sights in the Anping District of Tainan, Taiwan. I am in Tainan for a few days, so I headed there...

Timeless Tainan

Okay, about the title of this post, maybe Tainan isn’t timeless. Time still has meaning there as far as I can tell. But timeless Tainan...

Zhinan and Quandu Temples

This afternoon was a long one, but I didn’t see much because I spent most of the time travelling between two temples, Zhinan Temple and...

Making for Maokong

This morning, I set out for a district in the southern region of Taipei, Maokong. At one time, Maokong consisted primarily of tea plantations. It...

Taipei Botanical Garden

This morning in Taipei started as partly cloudy and switched to partly sunny. The forecast called for no serious threat of rain. The temperature before...

National Palace Museum

After a late night last night, I got a late start this morning. I took in only one site, Taipei’s National Palace Museum. The sky...