Otherwise known as: Subway to a train to a plane to a bus to a bus to a train to a subway.

Taiwan has so much to offer, great hiking, amazing history, and fun cities; so much so that we totally overbooked our short 6 night stay here. The original plan was two nights in Tainan (the oldest city in Taiwan) on the west coast, two nights in Hualien to hike in Taroko National Park on the east coast, and two nights in Taipei. On the bus ride from the airport to the high speed rail station to Tainan, we decided it was just too much time spent traveling. Instead of getting a ticket south to Tainan, we booked a ticket north to Taipei, for a night’s stopover on the way to Hualien and sorted out lodging accordingly. See? I can be flexible occasionally.