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Kenting 001 – HSR & Bus to Kenting
Friday, December 3, 2010
Taiwan High Speed Rail – Train 123 Car 4 Seat 3A
8:50 a.m., Taipei, Taiwan
The train is scheduled to leave at 8:54, and I’m pretty sure it will leave exactly to the minute. Train trips out of Taipei are so easy for me that they are a real pleasure. Living right above the MRT station and one stop away from the train station …
Kenting 002 – Powerful Winds and the Formost Hotel
Saturday, December 4, 2010
9:47 a.m. Lobby of the Formost Hotel
Kenting, Taiwan
It’s an interesting feeling going to a place for the first time. You really have no idea of the lay of the land or what to expect. A young woman on the bus translated for me and asked me for the bus driver where I wanted to go. I said that I wanted to go …
Kenting 003 – Whale Sharks and Manta Rays
Sunday, December 5, 2010
9:00 a.m. Formost Hotel Lobby
Kenting, Taiwan
My big plan for Saturday was to visit the National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, henceforth known as the “Aquarium”, and it was an extraordinary experience – far better than I had expected.
I didn’t know much about the Aquarium, but it was one of the main reasons I decided to come to Kenting this weekend. I …
Kenting 004 – Whale Sharks and Belugas, Take 2
Monday December 6, 2010
8:45 a.m.Formost Hotel Lobby
Kenting, Taiwan
Today is my last day in Kenting. My ticket on the High Speed Rail back to Taipei is for 7:30 tonight, but I’ll probably end up going back earlier than that. I tried to arrange to keep my room until mid- or late-afternoon, but no one really understood what I was talking about. Hotels want you to check …