History and nature
Few people realize that the Alishan Forest Railway once had an extensive network with numerous branch lines. Today, almost nothing remains of most of these branches, with the Mianyue Line being the notable exception. Hidden beside the road, this tunnel esides the highway No. 18 has survived, although the railway tracks that once led to […]
Rotten Yangmei II
My report on my adopted hometown continues. The title is pure clickbait, of course. What you see here is a former motel. It actually seems to have been quite nice in its day. What purpose do Taiwanese motels serve? Traditionally, they provided a retreat for newly married couples who were still living with their parents […]
Horse Head
Oil was first discovered in Taiwan at the Chuhuangkeng Oilfield in Gongguan Township, Miaoli County. Oil extraction has been carried out there since 1877. During the Japanese colonial period, development became much more advanced, and approximately 98 oil wells were drilled. The site of Taiwan’s first oil well has since been transformed into the Taiwan […]
Administrative ping-pong
Longyan Elementary School (龍岩國小遺址) is located on a series of gently rolling hills on Qiongjiao Mountain in Dalin Township, Chiayi County. In 2007. It was closed due to a declining number of students. The school building itself is still structurally well preserved. However, the interior has deteriorated significantly due to decay, and parts of it […]
The transition
It was more by coincidence that Mr. X found these buildings. It is a connected complex consisting of several hotels. In the past, it must have been quite an attractive place. Today, however, it has been completely left to decay. This is related to the general development of domestic tourism and the trouble during transition […]
The garbage indicator
As the post goes on, you will understand this sentence. This post does not feature spectacular photos or semi-suicidal actions, but rather shows what such a search is actually like. It usually begins with looking from a distance for unnatural ridgelines, changes in vegetation, or flat terraces. Can you see them? (View from Silent Hill) […]
Addicted to Cement?
I could already see this beauty from an elevated road. As someone addicted to cement, of course I became curious — but it took a while before I found access. This is the outer area visible from the road. You can climb into it a little, but it is terribly unstable. And there I saw […]
The structure of mines
2026/5/31 very dangerous (collapse, snakes, green frogs, get lost, heavy metal contamination, please read the explanation at the end of this text) After a tour of the smelter, I went to the Gold Museum and took a photo of this diagram. It looked quite confusing and hard to understand. Then I had everything translated and […]
In the backyard
in process (very dangerous, snakes, hornets, risk of collapse, toxic inside the flues, arsenic) I am morbidly fascinated by the mines, tunnels, and flues behind the Shuinandong Smelter. From the funicular railway or Liukeng Slope Ropeway (六坑斜坡索道), it’s not that hard to find some tunnels, old buildings, and mines. You can already get a first […]
From a lost place to a theme park
still in process At first, I thought it was an aircraft graveyard, since the planes are definitely decommissioned. The owner cleared things up for me in a very interesting 90-minute conversation. It’s a very large site in Guanyin that is privately owned. The owner used to fence it off, but that didn’t really stop people, […]