When in Taiwan...

...it’s a bit like this. #台灣 I’m also the 🪶 chap.

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…see your Water Caltrops (菱角) being harvested.

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Pub 🍻

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Other options available.

[Radio Taiwan International @RadioTaiwan_Eng]

This century-old spanking ritual is believed to drive away bad luck. One participant describes it as “quite painful.” #Taiwan

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Yesterday grubby ruin.
Tomorrow chic cafe.

#Tainan 401

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…eat cheap.

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#tasteTaiwan, then tell others.

[Kurt Nimphius' Hair @Hcp1Hcp]

@WhenInTaiwan The soup dumplings here in Puzi was phenomenal.

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Now / other days.

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Find the snake-y ones. #LanternFestival

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@Hcp1Hcp In / was in both in the last 12 hours.

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More than Taipei.
But mostly on land.

#tourTaiwan

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Less tame than this!

#ComeVisitTaiwan next year. Prepared!

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HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people dressed in protective gear gathered at the Yanshui district of Tainan to participate in the annual two-day Beehive Fireworks Festival, featuring millions of "beehive firecrackers."

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So we can all sip tea on bigger trains.

[michaelturton @michaelturton]

Looks like they have repurposed a tea rail, common in highland tea growing areas.

Here is one from Taiwan

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Will AI invent culture this good?

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Bombarding deity Lord Handan:
People threw firecrackers at a man standing on a chariot, dressed as the deity Lord Handan, during a demonstration of this popular folk tradition in Taitung County on Saturday.

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Find the snake-y ones. #LanternFestival

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I’ve met a dangi/shaman/童乩 doing a bit of TSMC engineering on the side.

Taiwan is a complex place.

[TaiwanPlus Originals @taiwanplusshows]

During the day, A-Yun works as a delivery man for a steel factory. But on specific days of the Lunar calendar, he takes on a completely different role... Specifically, he transforms into a medium for the gods.

Get an insight into A-Yun's role as a spirit medium, and the importance of this role for the locals: https://t.co/W50XKa9MUE

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Urban 🥭 anticipation.

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This week we started working again.

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開工放鞭炮 #地點不詳

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❤️ Taiwan

[Lev Nachman @lnachman32]

The cognitive dissonance of arriving in Taiwan as an American and seeing human rights celebrated front and center, while my actual home (and Taiwan’s main ally) is doing what it can to scrub human rights and equality from our values.

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More masks today. #大S

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#tasteTaiwan in season:

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...less than 3 weeks away!

Dress properly for Yenshui #Fireworks! 鹽水蜂炮

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The (Christian) prayer room at Kaohsiung Airport has bibles in Chinese, English, and Vietnamese.

*also Muslim and Buddhist rooms.