Taiwan or Thailand

Ταϊβάν ή Ταϊλάνδη

When people ask me where I am from, I answer: Taiwan.  But after listening to my answer, about fifty percent of the time they think I am from Thailand.

It is easily confused by people who do not know their geography well.  The Vancouver edition of the Metro Newspaper had a mistake on a title for a correct news report about the recent military coup in Thailand. This post by Brian Glucroft is very good to point out the above mistake http://www.isidorsfugue.com/2014/05/taiwans-government-not-overthrown-by.html?m=1

For people in doubt about the geographical locations of Taiwan and Thailand, just go to this link and "WAIT" for the map to show you where Thailand is, and then it directs you to show where Taiwan is, it gives you the answer so clearly that you should never make a mistake again http://www.mapcrow.info/Distance_between_Thailand_TH_and_Taiwan_TW.html

Taiwan http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Taiwan is an island (area including the surrounding small islands under its jurisdiction) 36193 / 8336 = 4.34 times the area of Crete http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete.

By the way, the Greek language does not have a good phonetic translation of "Taiwan", it should have been translated as "Ταϊουάν" instead of "Ταϊβάν".  But it is hard to translate a place name in another language per http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonym_and_endonym.  Afterall, in Taiwan they call Ελλάδα (Greece) "Σίλα" 希臘 but phonetically it should have been translated "strangely" as ㄝ拉打.

Joint Greece - Taiwan Bird Photo Exhibition

This is my own bird photo attempt at a Kavala’s beach last month, I haven't reached the level of an exhibitor yet.

I went to a bird photo exhibition (a slide show of my visit) last night at Antonis Tritsis Park.

The photo exhibition was made possible through the joint cooperation of the Hellenic Ornithological Society (Ελληνική Ορνιθολογική Εταιρέια www.ornithologiki.gr) and the Taipei Representative Office in Greece.

The exhibition will run until 2009 06 28.

While still available, visitors can pick-up a free metal bird bookmarker, and some DVD and magazines about tourism in Taiwan on top of all the other information about bird watching in Greece.

To get there, you will exit from Attiki Odos at exit number 7, the road is called Odos Dimocratias, as soon as getting off the highway, at the light make a left turn, then following on the Odos Dimocratias for quite some time a Kotsovolos store is visible on your left hand side, but you will make a right turn there where the Kotsovolos is located, and this street is called Spyrou Moustakli, follow this street until the end of it, then park your car and walk inside the park for some distance until you pass a cafeteria, the building is about another 500? meters after the cafeteria, but just pay attention to the signs that direct you to the exhibition building.

I got slightly lost at a near-by street while driving, but I asked to find my way there, so don’t hesitate to explore!

Related info:

Birding in Taiwan http://www.birdingintaiwan.com/index.htm

The photographer Mr. K.K. Kuo’s gallery http://www.birdingintaiwan.org/gallery/Kuo%20K.K/index.htm

Taiwan Explorers Wanted and a chance to win 1 million TWD

Taiwan Tourism Bureau Contest is from June 1 to 30, 2009.

Just check it out here for a brief description, and detailed rules followed.

Curious about the TWD (New Taiwan Dollar’s) conversion?

Just check it out on the right-side of this blog, select all currencies and scroll down to “T” to click Taiwan.

The exchange rate is approximately:

1 TWD = 0.0219163 EUR, or 1 EUR = 45.6282 TWD.