Travel Destinations - China - Taiwan

Taiwan: High Culture

Far from the manic modernity of the lowlands, Steven Crook uncovers a wealth of ethnic and natural diversity in the mountains of Taiwan

A man wrestles a mountain boar to the ground. A housewife collects wild vegetables for dinner. A pair of hunters armed with rifles wade upriver, searching for squirrels and deer.

It's not how the world imagines Taiwanese life – but like nine-tenths of Sanmin's inhabitants, all these people are Taiwanese [ read more ]