Taiwan Has the Friendliest People in the World | describe taiwan
FromthemomentIlandedinTaiwanIheardnothingbutamazingthingsfromeveryoneImetabouthowamazingtheTaiwaneseare.Iwasabitskepticalatfirstandtheintimidatinglanguagebarrierpreventedmefrommakingmuchofaneffortwiththelocals.However,IsoonexperienceditformyselfwhenIarrivedinTaichung.Duetoamixupcausedbymebuyingthewrongtrainticketandendinguparrivingatthewrongtrainstation,IarrivedinTaichungwithuselessdirectionsandhavingnoideawhereIwas. TryingnottofreakoutIdecidedtotakeataxi.Outofadozenorso taxidrivers,notoneof...
From the moment I landed in Taiwan I heard nothing but amazing things from everyone I met about how amazing the Taiwanese are. I was a bit skeptical at first and the intimidating language barrier prevented me from making much of an effort with the locals.
However, I soon experienced it for myself when I arrived in Taichung.
Due to a mix up caused by me buying the wrong train ticket and ending up arriving at the wrong train station, I arrived in Taichung with useless directions and having no idea where I was. Trying not to freak out I decided to take a taxi.
Out of a dozen or so taxi drivers, not one of them could speak English.
Twenty minutes later I was still stood on the street, but now I was surrounded by dozens of Taiwanese taxi drivers. Five or six of them had handed me their phones so I could talk to their English-speaking friends to describe where I needed to go. Of cou...