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#Gaoxiong And in Taiwan, they're not shy about blasting top-tier music throughout the entire neighborhood from temple speakers.
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#Gaoxiong Temples in Taiwan are such an ordinary thing that after a while, you simply stop paying attention to them, perceiving them as just part of the city's landscape. But if you think about it, the temples here are the most beautiful in Asia! No other…
#Taipei #Kaohsiung
#Taipei #Kaohsiung Someone once asked me to talk about food. As it turned out, in Taiwan, I mostly indulged in Japanese and hotpot. Everything here is cooked excellently, especially the ramen. And with hotpot, you can eat as much meat as you want for around…
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#Gaoxiong Near the city is "Monkey Mountain". The name here is literal - macaques periodically raid the city. Here's one monkey casually crossing the road.
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#Gaoxiong While walking further, we found a residential area with balconies at the houses that are atypical for Taiwan with my friend. I don't know about you, but to me, the elements seemed to be taken from Mediterranean architecture.
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#Gaoxiong This is what the poorest areas of the city look like. Literally, there can be new skyscrapers just a kilometre away.
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#Kaohsiung The 85 Sky Tower, built during Taiwan's economic boom in the 90s, is probably the main symbol of Kaohsiung. A very unusual structure for us, but quite understandable to the Chinese - in the form of an "arch", it symbolizes height and wealth.…
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#Kaohsiung In Taiwan in general, and Kaohsiung in particular, there is a lot of questionable architecture. Some would call it cyberpunk, others simply a perversion of human dignity. One such architectural "project" is the "Nobel Building" residential…
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#Gaoxiong A city park on the site of the old freight railway station. A cool atmosphere, and lots of people on weekends. You can take a ride on a mini-Shinkansen and... a coal freight train as cargo?😅
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#Gaoxiong In 2024, the LRT ring line (a tram-like system) was finally fully opened in Gaoxiong. The route runs through the entire old part of Gaoxiong, and partially reuses the industrial railway tracks at the site of the old port station. After nearly 10…
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#Gaoxiong Gaoxiong is home to Taiwan's main cargo port, through which more than half of all maritime goods pass. Recently, the area has been reimagined and partially converted into an entertainment venue. Just in 2021, a concert hall (the white structure in…
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#Gaoxiong For the first time, my impressions after arriving from the capital, Taipei - the city... It's very strange. It's clearly closer to #Taichung (there was a series of posts about it), but because of the ocean, it feels even more like a southern resort…
Across the plains and fields, we're taking the Shinkansen to #Kaohsiung, Taiwan 🇹🇼
Across the plains and fields, we're taking the Shinkansen to #Kaohsiung, Taiwan 🇹🇼 The third-largest city in the country, with a population of 2.7 million.
The TODO list for the channel - about the places I still wanted to talk about.
The TODO list for the channel - about the places I still wanted to talk about. There's already filmed material from several countries in the queue, I just need to write the descriptions for them: - 🇹🇼 Kaohsiung, a southern city in Taiwan - 🇨🇳 A large…
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#Review Continuation of the long post about #Vancouver What can be considered as the city's downsides? Let's start with the main problems that all locals complain about - the cost of living and homelessness. Vancouver is indeed more expensive to live in…
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#Review A long post with my final impressions of my trip to #Vancouver It's not the first time I've come to a city for 4 days and then posted content on my channel for a whole month. But at least I have something to write about while I'm in Toronto.…
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#Vancouver The highlight of the Gastown district is the smoking clocks.
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#Vancouver North Miami😁
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#Vancouver Not all modern architecture will stand the test of time, but it's still nice to see when a city tries to build something unusual. No change = no gain.
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#Vancouver Attention! There are trolleybuses in Vancouver! Thank you for your attention! In fact, it's quite rare to see any public transport in America other than subways and buses. In Toronto, for example, there are trams! (surprisingly, they're called…
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#Vancouver I continue to walk around the city and showcase the historical architecture in its various districts. Vancouver has many beautiful buildings, but the Dominion Building (1910) (2), the Waterfront Railway Station (1914) (3), and the Sun Tower…
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#Vancouver I'll add some more photos of the mountain trails, which you can reach by taking a cable car. There are warnings everywhere that there are moose, bears, and mountain lions in the forests, but we didn't encounter any of them at all))
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#Vancouver This is what it looks like to climb a mountain by cable car, and this is the view that opens up at the top! This was the first time I've seen real MOUNTAINS. There aren't many places in the world where you can behold such beauty!
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#Vancouver If you have the option to rent a car, then the province of British Columbia is your paradise. You just need to drive out of the city, and the mountain ranges begin, which you won't get tired of driving along, even for hours. Along the way,…
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#Vancouver At the top of the mountain, you can check out a fenced area where bears live. So to speak, it's a demo version of the ones that tourists sometimes encounter when they stray too far into the mountains))
Of course, people go to #Vancouver for the nature.
Of course, people go to #Vancouver for the nature. The west coast of America is truly unique, with endless expanses of dense mountainous coniferous forests, and not going for at least a couple of hikes would just be unrealistic. My friend and I first chose…
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#Vancouver American classical architecture in the business downtown. Despite the fact that the city is very young and undergoing rapid redevelopment, there are still beautiful buildings from a bygone era here.
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#Vancouver I discovered this little alley
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#Vancouver In addition to the previous post It's no secret that Canada has a problem with drug addiction and homelessness. These two issues are inextricably linked, and it's very difficult to solve one without addressing the other. Housing prices in the…
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#Vancouver Near Chinatown, there's another notorious area of Vancouver - Downtown West-End. If you ask a local where you should never go, they'll say - West-End. Over the past few years, the area has increasingly deteriorated into a "dead zone", where you…
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#Vancouver There are a lot of Chinese people in Vancouver. According to official data, about 20%, while in Canada as a whole, the percentage is less than 5%. So of course, there's a Chinatown here! There's also one in Toronto, but it's much less vibrant.…
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#Vancouver In the center is one of the most beautiful historic districts of the city - Gastown. For 20 years, it was the only settlement on the island, until Vancouver was formally founded in 1886. The district survived the Great Depression and…
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#Vancouver The Port of Vancouver is a fully-fledged transport hub of the city. It is located in an ideal bay, where ocean waves do not reach it. From here, you can take a ferry to neighboring cities or islands, fly to Seattle by seaplane, or embark on a…
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#Vancouver My first impressions upon arriving in downtown Vancouver are that the environment is very similar to Toronto, where I came from. There's no European heritage like in Montreal, just American classic architecture mixed with modern office buildings.…
The chronology of my travels in the channel has long been disrupted, so I decided to…
The chronology of my travels in the channel has long been disrupted, so I decided to spice up the story about Asia with a little side story about my trip to #Vancouver🇨🇦 in the middle of August! For those who aren't very familiar with Canada, Vancouver is…
Well, I didn't really want to, damn it😂
Well, I didn't really want to, damn it😂
#Beijing
#Beijing I think I've posted everything I found interesting about Beijing, and I'd like to sum up this trip. After all, this is my first full-fledged trip to China, and it usually sets a certain standard. Starting with the basics - is it worth visiting…
I think everyone has already seen the news that starting from September 15, you can…
I think everyone has already seen the news that starting from September 15, you can visit China without a visa for 30 days. That's great for those who wanted to stay longer but couldn't / didn't want to get a visa. But the tourist flow is unlikely to change…
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#Beijing Whoever gets up early, they... Photograph the view from the hotel window before dawn.
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#Beijing One of my favorite photos from Beijing - it perfectly conveys the average impressions of this city. (I'm losing interest in this post)
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#Beijing The echoes of the city's old architecture.
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#Beijing I don't notice it very often, but where there are details, they work very well. Absolutely everyday elements on the streets often refer to the landmark in the area where they are located.
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#Beijing The family is happily picking apples, what else could they be doing?))
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#Beijing In China, it's absolutely impossible to navigate with maps. Google Maps might show the most popular places, but local Baidu Maps have the most inconvenient interface - it's a total nightmare to find anything. And restaurant reviews are in a…
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#Beijing I visited the Temple of Heaven. And it was just a total hype and disappointment. There's a paid entrance, tons of people, but almost no content. Inside the building, there's a hall with a throne, but you can't go in there. Around the area, there's…
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#Beijing The only place where I experienced the great Chinese social rating system firsthand. This vending machine allows you to select a drink, scan the Alipay code, and simply take a bottle from the refrigerator. But since my credit score as a tourist is…
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#Beijing Kojima is a genius So, guys, they're taking out the trash from the Great Wall of China.
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#Beijing Of course, I visited the Great Wall of China. I don't know about you, but I always had the impression that it's an overhyped tourist attraction where people are just taken there by buses to look around and there's nothing to do there. But, firstly,…