Suantou Sugar Factory (蒜頭糖廠) - Spectral Codex
Suantou Sugar Factory Tourist Trains (蒜頭糖廠五分車)

Established in 1906 as one of the earliest sugar factories in the area. It was flooded during a typhoon in 2001 and closed the year after. Since then it has been redeveloped into one of the more popular sugar factories for tourism.

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Series: Taiwan Summer Road Trip 2017

In the summer of 2017 I borrowed a scooter to ride to a music festival in Nantou and only returned it several months later. It wasn’t a continuous road trip—I’d leave the scooter parked at various HSR stations as I slowly made my way around central and southern Taiwan—but each leg of the trip usually involved 3 or 4 days of riding. In the end I gathered enough material for 60 or 70 posts, only some of which have been published.

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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.