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Travel

Please keep in mind that the URLs for English pages of predominantly Chinese web sites often change. If the links to English pages below are bad, go to the main Chinese page and look for an English link there.

Services

• Taiwan railway
  • Train schedule - This link sometimes changes
  • News of train cancellations, etc. - Unsure how permanent this link is
• Taiwan high speed rail (HSR)
• Kaohsiung International Airport
  • English
• Taoyuan International Airport
  • English
• Kaohsiung Rapid Transit
  • Navigable map (scroll down and click on the stops for info and additional maps)
  • English
• Taitung Govt. Department of Culture and Tourism
  • Their English site
• Taiwan Freeway Bureau
  • Road closures, English - limited information
  • Road closures, Chinese - more information
• Kaohsiung Department of Motor Vehicles
• Taitung County Department of Culture and Tourism
• AirHelp.com - get compensated for getting bumped
• Ding Dong Bus Service

Traffic tickets and other pleasant things

• Means of payment

Maps

In addition to the excellent resources below, you can browse a raw directory listing of maps at http://formosahut.com/maps.

• UrMap
• Yahoo maps
• A variety of Taiwan maps
• Zoomable map of Taiwan
• Open Street Map
• Reed Institute
• WHKMLA Taiwan
• NTU Volcano Research Lab
• Perry-Castañeda Library
• Embassy Worldv

General information

• On-line sample driving license test

Hotels

• Taitung
  • Taitung Teacher's Hostel - 台東縣政府公共造產公教會館
  • http://www.facebook.com/taitungseaart - Dulan
    • Also http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/taitung-seaart
• Kenting
  • Posted to the Kaohsiung Living list: "Try Greenfield Home it is at the back of Kenting High St, 08 886 2368 + 2292, I have stayed there for years, left all sorts of stuff in my room including laps tops and expensive cameras and never had anything go missing. In fact a friend of mine left a valuable necklace there and the owners kept it for 6 months until she went back their again. The owner is very friendly and speaks a little English if required. It's NT$1,000 per night on the weekend."

Special fare links:

• China Airline promotions. The Chinese page is located here.
• Northwest promotions even though they're a sucky airline.
• The Abacus system You know that reservation number for your tickets? If you have problems with the previous link, try going to http://www.abacus.com.tw/show.do and clicking on the first link, left menu. You might also have luck simply clicking on this link: http://flight.abacus.com.tw/fly/default.asp?code=abacus.

Freighter travel

• http://boards.bootsnall.com/help-any-passenger-ship-from-asia-to-us-fear-of-flying-t20589.html
• http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1387003
• http://www.travltips.com/freighterdirectory.html
• http://www.seatravelltd.co.uk/

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