April 20th, 2017
We traveled to the Industrial Technology Research Institute and the Hsinchu Science and Innovation Park, some of the many highly effective innovation centres in Taiwan.
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Hsinchu is the home of the Hsichu Science and Industrial Park, the epicentre of Taiwan's massive high tech industry.
April 21st, 2017
We traveled from Taipei to Kaohsiung on the Taiwanese bullet train.
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Taoyuan is to the west of Taipei and is home of Taipei's main airport.
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A couple of minutes of the view out the window of Taiwan's bullet train traveling at speed.
Houlong, Taiwan
Houlong is in Miaoli County between Taoyuan City and Taichung City on the west coast of Taiwan.
Taichung, Taiwan
Taichung is in about the middle of the country on the west coast.
Changhua, Taiwan
Changhua is the next county south of Taichung on the west coast of Taiwan. It is the home of one of the few remaining operating mainline roundhouses in the world.
Yunlin, Taiwan
Yunlin county is about half way between Tainan and Taichung on the west coast of Taiwan.
Tainan, Taiwan
Tainan is the former capital of Taiwan and is the oldest city in the country, just north of the port city of Kaohsiung on the west coast.
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Kaohsiung is the large, historic port city in the southwest corner of Taiwan.
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The local LRT passes our bus outside the Kaohsiung expo and convention centre.
April 22nd 2017
We woke up in Tainan and worked our way north to Changhua to see the roundhouse before returning on the bullet train to Taipei from Taichung.
Tainan, Taiwan
Tainan is the former capital of Taiwan and is the oldest city in the country, just north of the port city of Kaohsiung on the west coast.
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One of several trains pass under our hotel room window on the approach to a local station in Tainan city.
Changhua, Taiwan
Changhua is the next county south of Taichung on the west coast of Taiwan. It is the home of one of the few remaining operating mainline roundhouses in the world.
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In Changhua, Taiwan, there is a mainline roundhouse that also serves as a tourist attraction with a viewing platform and several walkways. During our visit, one of the diesels was fired up and spun around to put the steam engines away that had been taken out for show.
Taichung, Taiwan
Taichung is in about the middle of the country on the west coast.
April 23rd, 2017
One last train on the way to the airport to come back to Canada.
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Taoyuan is to the west of Taipei and is home of Taipei's main airport.
Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei is the capital of Taiwan in the north of the country.