{"id":10398,"date":"2014-04-15T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T06:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2014-11-14T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T06:30:45","slug":"made-in-taiwan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/made-in-taiwan-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan, a kitesurfer\u2019s paradise??<\/p>\n<p>To be perfectly honest with you, until recently I would have had strong doubts about this statement. That\u2019s precisely why it\u2019s so freakin\u2019 awesome to take risks, give yourself a push and go out into the world to expand your horizon!<\/p>\n<p>Ever since my earliest childhood the country Taiwan was well known to me (that\u2019s what I thought anyway!). After all the entire kingdom of my toys, my bike and later on almost all my electrical gadgets, fake designer-clothes and the majority of house and kitchen utensils in my parents\u2019 house carried the \u201cMade in Taiwan\u201d-badge. I knew little else other than that Taiwan was producing a hell of a lot of goods and that it was somewhere in Asia. I was astounded to discover in the process of thoroughly researching the globe for a new explorer-mission that this island in the Pacific seemed to be blessed with promising conditions for wind- and wave-addicts\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>This article in the leading international magazine Kiteworld, reports about my unforgettable three-and-a-half week journey in this truly unique and so amazing country, where I made heaps of friends, soaked up the culture and was experiences a Taiwan that I didn&#8217;t have a clue existed!<\/p>\n<p>Have fun reading guys, either online or download the pdf to your device! Simply click on the button below.<\/p>\n<p>If English is not your mother tongue, you can also find the <a title=\"Check out the German version!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/made-in-taiwan\/\">German version published in Kiteboarding.eu<\/a>, in <a title=\"Check out the Spanish version!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/made-in-taiwan-2\/\">Spanish in Surf a Vela<\/a>, or in French in Kiteboarder.Mag!<\/p>\n<p>Gabi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan, a kitesurfer\u2019s paradise?? To be perfectly honest with you, until recently I would have had strong doubts about this statement. That\u2019s precisely why it\u2019s so freakin\u2019 awesome to take risks, give yourself a push and go out into the world to expand your horizon! Ever since my earliest childhood the country Taiwan was well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[938,1699,996,1363,1867,1834,42],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-stories","tag-adventure","tag-asia","tag-culture","tag-kiteworld","tag-made","tag-taiwan","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10407,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}