TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — While foreign travel in most parts of the world is still impossible due to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, residents of Green Island in Taitung County are complaining about being overwhelmed by the numbers of tourists.
Over the past 11 days, a total of 60,000 people visited the island off southeast Taiwan, or 60 times its regular population, CNA reported Saturday (July 25). Tickets for the ferry from Taiwan’s main island were already sold out for the period from Aug. 1 through 6, leading residents to call on travelers to stay away. more
I can relate.
If they get too many tourists the island might capsize!
If you think that’s bad don’t come to Florida. Disney’s gonna open soon and 60,000 people will be in the line just to take a piss.
Taitung County is about as far away from mainland China as you can get without leaving China, so yeah, “tourism”.
I remember, back in the day (waaay back in the day 1960s back in the day) while I was stationed on Guam with the US Navy, there was, at least weekly, an aircraft designated the Taiwan Flyer, which would take you to Taipei, where one (not ME) could partake in sins of the flesh – among other sins. Inexpensively. Then when one (again, not me) flew back to the base they would drop you off at the corpsman’s office to receive certain inoculations. And (as I heard tell) a lecture from the Chief Corpsman.
Tony for the WIN!!
Or do you really go by Hank?