It’s home to spectacular mountain landscapes and the world’s greatest collection of ancient Chinese art
You’ll encounter few other Westerners on holiday in Taiwan – it receives only 3,000 British tourists each year, for instance – and yet it is among the most beautiful, fascinating and friendly places you could hope to visit, says Janice Turner in The Times. An island one-seventh the size of the UK, with a population of 24 million, it has spectacular mountain landscapes, some of the best food in Asia, and the world’s greatest collection of ancient Chinese art. Perhaps “outdated perceptions” put visitors off (“Made in Taiwan” means high-end microchips now, not “cheap plastic tat”); and no doubt Chinese talk of “forced ‘reunification’”, together with recent military drills around its coast, don’t help. But for me, the chance to show support for a fellow democracy in daunting times was just one more reason to go.
