Taiwan Observations.... Taiwan was a mix of China, Japan and South Korea. They didnt seem to have much that was 'theirs' even the food. People are friendlier than China - more obviously friendly anyway People are bigger, taller, with bigger faces - people not as beautiful as China The country is very clean Taiwan is slightly more westernised - has American police cars, big wide streets and 7- 11 everywhere!! It wasnt as beautiful as I was expecting,...

Taiwan wasn't really what I expected, which is odd as I didn't really know what to expect!  It was a bit like China, obviously, but had some Korea and Japan mixed in as well... I guess I thought it would have a bit more of it's own personality, which I didn't really see. We arrived at Taipei airport a couple of hours later than expected so grabbed a taxi to the centre of town, checked into our hostel, which was like someone's flat, and headed for the street mar...