Tag: Taiwan

To travel to Taiwan means to have decided on a rather atypical travel destination... at least less typical than the Philippines, which is only a few kilometers away. There are a number of things worth seeing in Taiwan - both on the main island and on some of the 70 or so offshore islands. The country is worth seeing for its landscape alone: ​​with imposing mountains, some of which are traversed by valleys, gorges and rivers and which reach their highest point with the Yu Shan at 3,952 m, but also with steep coasts, paradisiacal beaches, hill country and extensive forests (including mangrove forests), because about half of Taiwan's area is forested. 5 national parks also await you; including the over 1,000 square meter Yushan National Park and Yang Ming…

Yearbook 2007 Taiwan. At a solemn ceremony on January 17, the Sakizaya people were officially recognized as Taiwan's thirteenth indigenous people. Scientists long believed that sakizaya, who lives in the eastern part of the country, died in the ethnic cleansing that took place after a battle against a Chinese army in 1878. It now seems as if the entire people "went underground" by pretending to to belong to another people group, ami. As ethnic rights began to gain more attention in Taiwan, in 2005 sakizaya launched a movement that eventually led to its recognition as a distinct Taiwanese people. In political life, the many corruption scandals continued to hail. In February, it was Ma Ying-jeou, the leader of the large opposition party Guomindang, who was allowed to resign after being…