Taichung — tijd en weer
Taichung is een stad in Taiwan, in tijdzone Asia/Taipei. Deze pagina toont de actuele lokale tijd in Taichung en het huidige weer: temperatuur, neerslag en windsnelheid.
Over de tijd in Taichung
De lokale tijd in Taichung is gebaseerd op tijdzone Asia/Taipei. Zomertijd wordt, indien van toepassing in deze regio, automatisch verrekend. Het huidige verschil met de universele tijd (UTC) staat naast de klok. De tijd op deze pagina wordt elke seconde bijgewerkt en is gesynchroniseerd met de klok van je apparaat.
Over het land en de stad
Taiwan is an island state in East Asia off the coast of mainland China, separated by the Taiwan Strait. A mountainous island with dense forests and a tropical south, it is also home to one of the world's most advanced economies, producing a large share of global semiconductors (TSMC and others). Taiwan is known for its night markets, as the birthplace of bubble tea, for its democratic freedoms and for its complex political history with the PRC.
Meer over het land: Taiwan →Wat te zien in Taichung
Bezienswaardigheden en historische plekken
- Rainbow Village is a former veterans' settlement turned by self-taught painter Huang Yung-fu into a vivid quarter covered in bright murals.
- The National Taichung Theatre, designed by Toyo Ito, is a contemporary building with cave-like flowing interiors and a symbol of the city's new face.
- Fengjia Park and the eponymous night market form Taiwan's largest night market with thousands of stalls, particularly popular with students.
- The old Lin Family Mansion at Wufeng and the Jixian Garden are an example of classic Qing-dynasty architecture in the outskirts of Taichung.
Musea
- The National Museum of Natural Science is one of Taiwan's most visited museums, with dinosaurs, a botanical garden and a planetarium.
- The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) holds the country's largest collection of contemporary Taiwanese art in a spacious building set among parks.
- The Museum of Prehistory (Tainan branch) and the Museum of Literature tell the story of prehistoric Formosa and the island's literary tradition.
Waar je tijd doorbrengen
- A walk along the Calligraphy Greenway — a green corridor through the city centre with fountains, bike lanes and art installations.
- Gaomei Wetlands on the ocean coast offer mudflats full of crabs, herons and spectacular sunsets, best seen from the wooden boardwalk.
- A bubble-tea pilgrimage: try boba at Chun Shui Tang in Taichung, the café that invented the drink in the 1980s.
Lokale keuken
Taichung is the birthplace of bubble tea: try the original pearl milk tea at Chun Shui Tang and the local «sun cakes» (suncakes) that traditionally accompany it.