I spend my first day in Taipei, Taiwan, on the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival. At Lungshan Temple I observe the locals praying, before taking a short walk to a nearby night market, tasting some barbequed foods washed down with a famous Taiwanese bubble tea. I then travel to Da’an Park, soaking in the best views of the brightly lit moon. The following day, I try mooncakes from Taipei Leechi and visit the historic Dihua Street, soaking in street processions and paying a visit to the nearby Ningxia night market.
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I’m Jason, a full-time British Travel Vlogger and YouTuber who’s been to 61 countries. I’ve been travelling around the world full-time since 2017.
I have travel series’ from many of the world’s best (and least) known destinations. I filmed the first vlogs on my channel in the summer of 2016 after spending a year living in China. A proper solo trip around Eastern Europe followed after graduating from University in the summer of 2017, taking me to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Kosovo. This marked the start of my efforts to turn vlogging into a full-time job.
After that European trip I explored much of Asia: visiting India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea and Kazakhstan.
I have also travelled to North Africa and the Middle East fairly extensively over the last five years, filming videos in Turkey, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine.
I’ve travelled to North America just once as a YouTuber, visiting Mexico in 2021. Though I have been to both the USA and Canada, this was as a child on family holidays.
In 2022, I took my first trip to Sub Saharan Africa, visiting Kenya and Tanzania, before heading to the Middle East, stopping in Dubai and Lebanon. Europe followed, covering both the Greek and Turkish sides of Cyprus, and afterwards going back to Italy for the second time to cover Milan and Sicily. I then visited the Caribbean for the first time, covering the Dominican Republic, before heading to both Brussels and Amsterdam, then covering Taiwan and the Philippines in Asia. I finished off the year with a trip around Morocco.
I started my travels in 2023 by finally visiting Paris, taking the Eurostar from London. I then headed over to Qatar for a few days, before heading to the south of India and Singapore.
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As I mentioned at the end of the previous vlog from Singapore, this Taiwan series of videos that I’ll be uploading on the channel next were filmed in October last year (the Mid Autumn festival doesn’t happen in spring funnily enough). They’re coming out now because of a project I was involved in along with other content creators, and the deal was that they wouldn’t be released until spring this year. Hope that makes things a bit clearer. Cheers!
Jason Billam, I think Taipei has a distinctive culture, history and architecture as well as the city's overall beauty!
Very interesting
Hey Jason !! Welcome to my country. Thanks for sharing your visit and have a great time in this beautiful and fascinating country 🇹🇼🇬🇧🇹🇼🇬🇧🇹🇼🇬🇧
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Nice video Jason lots of people celebrating the moon festival. You picked a good time to visit. I am anxious to see more of Taipan.
Thanks much and
cheers
Thankyou so much for beautiful vedio i have only heard about this place seeing first time through yr eyes.thanks a lot.
Been waiting for this series! Amazing first video Jason
I just got to Taiwan! Looking forward to your videos.
13:54 I don't think the black sesame spells out any Chinese character. They sometimes use black or white sesame to denote the filling inside.
Hopefully your Asian trip will lead you back to Malaysia again 😊
Mooncake in Chinese is "Yuebing" pronounced "Yeah-Bing".
Are you good at Chinese?
Sorry, I just don't enjoy watching travel videos where all the people's faces are covered up. One of the reasons East Asian destinations are off my list still at this point. It's sad, but a key part of my enjoyment of travelling is seeing and talking to the locals. Never seeing people's smiles would definitely detract from my enjoyment. I would feel disconnected from the people which is contrary to one of my purposes to travel.
Any government that wants to harm 60% of its children is criminal especially with what we now know of the devastating effects of the +—[===]—->.
many people wearing mask😅
Seems like mask wearing is still mandatory in Taiwan?
Welcome to taiwan 🇹🇼!
Always go with tea when you eat moon cakes😃
Hello greetings from Indonesia, try to visit Indonesia, the 4th most populous country in the world, the number 1 Muslim country in the world, has the most 17,000 islands in the world, having diversity of tribes, languages, cultures and religions tolerant of each other, Indonesian is the official or unified language and the second language is regional languages such as Javanese, Sundanese, Malay, Batak, Minang, and so on. Indonesia has the 2nd most languages in the world after Papua New Guinea, has the most tribes and cultures in the world. The country of Indonesia has Indonesian culinary specialties such as Fried Rice, Rendang, Sate, Meatballs, Martabak, Chicken Noodles, Gado-Gado and so on.The largest cities in Indonesia are Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung, Makassar, Yogyakarta, Bali, Aceh, Papua, Makassar, Manado, Lombok and so on. there is also Indonesia having "Little India" only only the cities of Medan (North Sumatra) Most of North Sumatra is of Indian Tamil, Punjabi and Sindhu descent and Jakarta. Don't forget you are visiting Indonesia, bro
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Oh you definately have done your homework well before shooting this video. Or you had a wonderful tour guide to provide you with all the history and info. This video is hitting all the marks, bullseyes!! job well done, my friend!!
she is not chang yi, we call her chang e(嫦娥)。
I am Indian
My cantri you have
Hello ❤️ are
you can come to india
Moon cake says fortune, we think.
Video was probably taken Fall 2022?
Now,The Mid-Autumn Festival? Are you sure? Today is the 21st of May,2023. I am Chinese, Usually,we celebrate The Mid-Autumn Festival in 15th,August of lunar calendar . I am so confused.
Japan + Ukraine = Taiwan
The bubble tea you had was with tapioca 😊 Usually milk teas come with it and fruity green/black teas come with fruit bubbles or jellies
Welcome to Taiwan! Enjoy!
It's incredible how these religious traditions is always to get dome kind of personal material gain..I wonder if they come ask for wisdom, strenght to be more compassionate and lucidity 😮