Day 6: 16 May 2023, Tuesday It’s the fourth day of our Tour de Taiwan cycling adventure, and we’ve settled into a good rhythm by now. We woke up at 6:00am and went for breakfast at 6:30am, followed by the usual warm-up at 7:15am and briefing by Jeffrey. Today will be the second-longest distance for […]
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Day 5: 15 May 2023, Monday Day 3 of our Tour de Taiwan RTI, and we’re feeling good…we went for breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant at 6:30am, followed by the usual loading up, warming up, gearing up and briefing of the day’s itinerary by Jeffrey. Today would be a “relaxed” day of cycling from Taichung […]
Day 4: 14 May 2023, Sunday I woke up at 5:50am today, having slept very well last night, no doubt because of the physical exertions from the first day of cycling yesterday. I checked my legs and found that I could still feel them, which was a good sign. I think they would get sorer […]
Day 3: 13 May 2023, Saturday After two nights in Taipei, it was time to start our adventure – the Cycling Tour de Taiwan, or Round-The-Island (RTI) cycling tour with Giant Adventure (捷安特旅遊). Over the next nine days, we will cycle a total distance of around 900km, covering between 80km+ and 122km each day. It […]
Day 2: 12 May 2023, Friday For our second day in Taipei, we had a full day free so we decided to visit Shifen (十分) and Jiufen (九份), two of the most popular day trip destinations located on the outskirts of the city. We woke up at 7am but lay in bed until we could […]
How It All Began After years of dreaming about it, I finally completed my first cycling trip to Vietnam/Cambodia in November 2022. Pedalling my way from city to city over multiple days was invigorating and something that I had never experienced before. Over seven days and 300km of cycling, we traversed across diverse landscapes, seeing […]
In Search Of Incredible | Taiwan | Tantalising Taipei 2016
Tantalising Taipei Day 3 & 4: Ximen / Raohe Night Market / Singapore
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 13 November 2016] Day 3 – 17 June 2016, Friday It’s my last full day in Taipei, and I don’t really have an agenda today. The first thing I did was to go to Ximending to look for a […]
In Search Of Incredible | Taiwan | Tantalising Taipei 2016
Tantalising Taipei Day 2: Tamsui / Beitou / Shilin Night Market
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 13 November 2016] Day 2 – 16 June 2016, Thursday This morning, I was woken up by one of my dorm mate’s alarm clock at 9:30am. I did not bother setting my own alarm because I was on holiday, […]
In Search Of Incredible | Taiwan | Tantalising Taipei 2016
Tantalising Taipei Day 1: Singapore / Xinyi / Ximen / Ningxia Night Market
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 12 November 2016] Every year, I aim to visit at least one country that I have never been to before. There are about 196 countries in the world (I use the word “about” because there are different lists with […]