Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts

8/1/11

Cute Taiwanese Panda!




Curiosity about Taiwan:
  •  Pandas eat exclusively leaves and stem of bamboo.And will be sit 14 hours eating 12 to 14 kg  of plants. This animal was severely mistreated by the man because of its fur.

3/30/11

Great Wall of China

A postcard of The Great Wall of China, from Taiwan, just arrived and it's so beautiful.
I hope one day I have the opportunity to visit it... Here it is:



 The stamp shows a Luscinia Calliope (Siberian Rubythroat).

Curiosity about Taiwan:
  •  The 1st contact between Europe and Taiwan was in 1544, when a Portuguese ship sighted the main island of Taiwan. At the time, and as the Portuguese sailors couldn't understand the language of the natives to ask for the place's name, they decided to call it "Ilha Formosa", which means "Beautiful Island".


Hope you like it!

3/18/11

Happy Rabbit Year from Taiwan

This postcard is so beautiful! And it has all the colors I like...
You can see the front side and then a little bit of the back.




Curiosity about Taiwan:
  • In some districts of Taipei there is no place for garbage. When people ear a specific music playing they know that the truck is at a certain place and that they must take their trash there and throw it directly into the Picking garbage truck. 

Best Wishes!

2/22/11

Chinese New Year Card

Asia was well represented yesterday and this postcard is from Taiwan:




  
It's so sad that the photo doesn't really show how pretty this postcard is. But to have an idea, the gold is more bright and the characters and fish are embossed.

The stamps are so so beautiful and sender was kind enough to write in English with the translation to Chinese, since I'm learning this last language.

Thank you so much!

Curiosity about Taiwan:
  •  In Taiwan there are 12  restaurants which the theme is... Toilet. All the seats are close-stool; tables are bathtub or sink with a glass on the top, walls are decorated with many shower nozzles on it, the food comes in your own hot toilet bowl with a little fake “poop” on one side. Don't believe it? Take a look...





Have a nice day!