AT#276 - Travel to Southern Taiwan

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2011

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Michael Soncina who returns to the show to talk about his recent travels in Southern Taiwan. Michael took advantage of a Taiwan promotion targeting backpackers that opened up army barracks to provide inexpensive housing in this less visited region of Taiwan. The highlight of Kaohsiung City is the Lotus Pond, an area surrounded by temples old and new. Usually the older style temples seemed to be dedicated to Confucius, but there are giant temples in the image of the Jade emperor, which you can climb inside, and each floor offers unique art, as well there are the famous Dragon and Tiger pagodas. Michael also celebrated New Years on Cijin Island with its famous seafood street. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.1	in my passport photo.
0:10.4	Amateur Traveler episode 276. Today the amateur traveler talks about
0:17.0	Buddhist temples, great seafood, and animatronics as we go to southern Taiwan.
0:23.0	I know that I should be heading home.
0:29.0	Maybe not, maybe not today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get
0:36.1	into this week's interview I do have two news stories for you. In the first one
0:41.0	there's a video that has gone viral because a six-year-old child was padded down by TSA.
0:48.0	You know, and I'm not going to be one of the people who's going to get on the bandwagon here and say that this is inappropriate. The pat down was done in a professional
0:56.3	fashion. These are the rules and unfortunately at this point if you're uncomfortable with that,
1:01.9	you can't fly in the US.
1:04.1	It doesn't happen that often, but I've seen the video
1:07.8	and I didn't see anything inappropriate.
1:10.4	And yes, I have had kids.
1:16.3	But if you were concerned about traveling with your kids maybe you should fly Ryan Air because Ryan Air is introducing child-free flights
1:21.2	in October.
1:22.8	Because of complaints about people traveling with small children,
1:26.4	the airline is going to be running some flights that have no kids at all.
1:31.2	For the links to both those stories including the video check out the show
1:33.9	notes at amateur traveler.com. I'd like to welcome back to the show Michael
1:39.7	Suncina who's come to talk to us about Taiwan.
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