News – November 2007 (Taipei / Taiwan, November 16, 2007)
- Website statistics: In October we were able to welcome on our website 44'102 visitors who did 1'485'393 hits.
- (September = 33'726 visitors – 937'422 hits)
- The visitors are coming from about 100 to 118 different countries!
- Record day since 12/17/1998 - the birthday of our website: 2/19/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits
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- Since 1½ months, we are in Taiwan and believe to have discovered one of the friendliest countries. Actually there is
- nearly no unpleasantness, except a little the weather, which isn't everyday the nicest. Probably, we didn't choose the best
- time for a visit as winter is now approaching. It can cool down considerably at night, at least at higher elevations. Also
- Taiwan's landscape has much to offer – apart from the overpopulated West. But even there, the many temples are a feast
- for the eyes. Visiting the mountainous East, one is amazed how much stunning pure nature can be found. Taiwan is
- therefore almost a perfect travel destination – a little on the costlier side than the surrounding and better known holiday
- locations, but on the other hand it is really genuine Chinese! That we enjoy the island, can be seen also from the many
- pictures we have taken along the road: 1st part = Kaohsiung-Taitung, 2nd part = Taitung-Taipei, 3rd part = Taipei-
- Kaohsiung. In any case, we also find all the technical achievements enormous (e.g. road constructions and maintenance,
- high speed railway, towers), without neglecting the environment (creation of National- and many other parks, etc.),
- although the country has constantly to fight natural disasters like earthquakes and cyclones.
- But our planned two months' stay inTaiwan is ending soon. On November 27th, our LandCruiser will be caged once
- more and sent on his 11th container voyage to Hong Kong, our 158th destination, while we shall fly on the budget carrier
- "JetstarAsia" via Singapore to the former British Crown Colony, which is today administered – like neighboring Macao –
- by China as a "SAR-Zone" (Special Administrative Region). That means that an entrance is possible without a visa, and
- we hope simultaneously to get our car easier out of the port than in China proper (any visit with an own car is there only
- possible with a compulsory
- bustle during our arrival in Kaohsiung, mentioned already in the previous News, the governmental Chinese news agency
- Xinhua has reprinted this "event" but suppressed the name of Taiwan. Like that, the impression emerged that we would
- currently drive around continental China. This again was obviously such a sensation and enough reason that more than
- 150 other websites in the PDR of China covered the story – a few of them we saved on our media webpage. However,
- we found it rather unhelpful
- English edition in focusing on Taiwan's smoldering independence affair.
- If beginning of December there is no possibility in sight to visit China to "normal" conditions, we shall containerize our
- Toyota on 12/17/07 for the 12th time and send it to our first place in the Pacific: Lae in the Morobe Province of Papua
- New Guinea – thus starting 2008 with a real adventure in our epic world trip.
- Please follow meanwhile the continuation of the trip in 'Taiwan Part 3' on our website, though 'Part 1' and 'Part 2' are
- worthwhile too.
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| + our Taiwan Trip, 1st part | Kaohsiung-Kenting-Taitung – Oct. 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 6th part | Kalimantan – July 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, within the 5th part | Tana Toraja (Toraja-Land) – June+July 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 5th part | Sulawesi – June+July 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 4th part | Sumba, West Timor – May+June 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 3rd part | Lombok, Sumabawa, Flores – April 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 2nd part | Bali – Jan.-March 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 1st part | Sumatra, Java – Dec. 2006 |
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| + our Borneo Trip | Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, Kalimantan – Sept.-Nov. 2006 |
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| + our LandCruiser on a "Rejuvenation Cure" | in Miri/Sarawak - the East Malaysian province on Borneo Engine/Body: June-Aug. 2006/Transmission: Sept. 2007 |
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| + added from a earlier visit to the USA: | Las Vegas (Millennium change) |
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| + added from our Arabian Peninsula round trip: | Pictures from Yemen (May-June 1996) |
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| + Flashbacks of our Worldrecordtour: | Pictures from "all the continents" (Oct. 1984 - April 1997) |
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