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Category: Safety

Jan 19
The Little Folk: A Taiwanese Tale of the Moo-Sin-A 魔神仔

The landscape of Taiwan is an imaginative place. It calls to one's creative eye and is ripe with a sense of poetic and mythic possibility in the ways

Nov 18
Is Taiwan safe or not?

Nowadays safety is a big topic, CCTVs everywhere, criminality rates world wide are as low as never before and there are more solved then unsolved crimes, though not in every country. So what about Taiwan? Is Taiwan safe or not? Taiwan is a small island nation that truly hides a bunch of awesomeness. It has […]

Nov 18
5 Points to Crime Related Hazards in Taiwan

In general Taiwan is pretty safe, back in 2015 it was even declared as the 2nd safest country in the world. You can walk around alone day and night and sit together in parks without any worries. Just until a few decades ago everything had been different: Taiwan was infamous for a lot of brutal […]

Nov 18
Dangerous Wildlife Taiwan: 4 Animals you should look out for and why

Taiwan is not only one of the the Asian Tigers, but also has an astonishing flora and fauna. The climate here ranges from subtropical to subarctic, and its vegetation zones range from coastal over montane to alpine. Makes it not hard to guess then, that the biodiversity is enormous. There are over 120 different mammals, […]

Nov 18
4 Points about Safety for women in Taiwan

It is kind of obvious, most of the time female travelers/expats can’t experience a place the same way as their male counterpart. There are always added dangers, prohibitions, assumptions, expectations and just those extra things women notice because experience and necessity have trained them to do so. It can be said for sure, that in […]