Overview

General Information

General information for foreigners (very good)

Community Service Center, an organisation for the international community in Taipei

Information for foreigners of the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica (old)

Information for foreigners from Academia Sinica (rather old)

Impression from somebody who was living in Taiwan for some time - very interesting (in German)

Travel

General

Taipei Travel (very good if you ignore the intro)

Tourist Information Centre(er)s Taipei

A walking club

Another walking club

Hualien

Taipei County Tourism (English)

Taipei County Tourism (Chinese)

Taiwan Tour Bus, a company offering certain travel routes through Taiwan

Travel tips of my employer

Nationalparks, National Scenic Areas, and alike

National park overview

Yangmingshan National Park

Taroko National Park

Kenting National Park

Northern Coast National Scenic Area

Sun Moon Lake

Lalashan (Transportation)

Forestry Bureau (with information on the National Forest Recreation Areas)

Weather, Earthquakes, Taiphoons

Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau

Wunderground, weather for many Asian regions

Public Transports

National - Taiwan

Railway

Travel planer (English)

Travel planer (Chinese)

Station information, example Sijhih

Railway information English

High Speed Railway

Dragon Bus, a coach operator connecting Taipei und Taizhong

Information by the Institute of Transportation, Links to bus companies

Institute of Transportation

A nationwide bus company

UBUS, another nationwide bus company

The Country-Light-Bus - no idea how to translate that, but yet another bus company

Da you Bus, operates some intercity lines and some city busses

Another company with intercity busses

Busses Taipei-Taizhong-Sun Moon Lake, and some busses in Taizhong

Wikipedia is useful for all sorts of things, including a list of bus and coach operators in Taiwan

Taipei City (some extending to Taipei County)

Bus information Taipei English (doesn't work very well)

Bus information Taipei Chinese

Shuttlebuses between Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University, National Normal University and others

Busses operated by CS Group

E-Bus Taipei City

Department of Transportation, Taipei City

Taipei County

E-Bus Taipei County, Information on Busses (Chinese only)

E-Bus Taipei County, Listing of busses

Transportation Bureau, Taipei County

Taoyuan

Buses from Taoyuan Airport (formerly known as Chiang Kai-shek Airport) to Taipei and elsewhere (four of the mentioned lines I have tested so far and found the information concerning pricing, routes and duration pretty accurate as of April 2007)

Taoyuan Bus

Hualien

Busses in Hualien County

German shops in Taipei

Restaurant test

My favourite bakerman

Events

German Cultural Center

German Trade Office

Chinese Language

Learning Chinese (traditional and partly simplified) characters

Different romanization systems for Chinese

Yahoo-Taiwan-Online Dictionary

Several useful things, including a dictionary and a character dictionary (traditional and simplified characters)

A dictionary where you can draw the characters to search

All sorts of things - for simplified characters

Learn Chinese - simplified characters and German

Chinese Pod, lots of mp3 downloads, highly recommended - unfortunately only simplified characters

GraspChinese - a Website with online courses focused on spoken language

German-Chinese phrase book - again only simplified characters

Learn Chinese from several languages, includes also mp3 downloads

Chinese-German/German-Chinese dictionary with simplified and traditional characters

The language course of China Radio International (English or German) - not exactly Taiwan, but anyway.

Maps

Maps

Taiwan-Maps, but the English version doesn't seem to be very useful

Google maps have recently added maps for Taiwan, and the satellite pictures are already there for some time

Microsoft has maps as well, but no satallite fotos - geographical names are in English only and in a transcription that is outdated

City maps from Taiwan, with street search route planning, public transport planner - in Chinese

English Media

ICRT, the international community radio

Taiwan News newspaper

Taipei Times newspaper

China Post newspaper

Others

Post codes

Xizhi district administration

Annual schedule

Central Personnel Administration

Yellow Pages in Taiwan

A list of Chinese language radio stations with live streams, including Taiwanese

Finally, some art. This is the page of my friend Yueh-chiao. In case you want to buy one of her pictures, just contact her.



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Erstellt von Andreas Erbe, geändert am 20.11.2011

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