Adventure Travel Writing and Photography by Matt Gibson

Tag Archive for ‘Festival’

A Good ‘Ol Fashioned Boat Burning

The story of my misadventure documenting the ancient Wang Yeh Burning Boat Festival for Highway 11 Magazine, which begins with erroneous advice from an internet bulletin board, and ends with me driving hundreds of kilometers across Taiwan on my motorcycle at night and not sleeping for nearly thirty-six hours.

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Painted Thrice and the Circle Turned: A Glimpse of Peacefest 2008

Share It had rained lightly and steadily for three days on the festival grounds, a small grassy plateau high in the mountains of Taoyuan County. The dance floor, if you could call it that, was a flat formerly grassy area blanketed in four inches of mud. We all danced in the mud and rain a [...]

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A Year of Firsts for Tainan’s 6th Annual May Jam

Share FYI South April, 2005 What’s New? Now in it’s sixth year, Tainan’s annual music festival, the May Jam, is expanding in all directions. This year’s May Jam will feature a host of new attractions such as: multimedia releases and international musical acts, as well as drama, comedy, and drumming. So that no one, even [...]

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About Me

Matt GibsonI'm a travel writer and photographer currently based in Tainan, Taiwan where I founded and edited Xpat Magazine, one of Taiwan's largest and longest-running expatriate periodicals. My writing and photography has been published in various print and online publications including Taiwan Today, the Taiwan Fun Magazine Group, and TransitionsAbroad.com. I speak English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese (to varying degrees) and am available for assignment. I can be reached through the form on the contact page of this website, or at xpatmatt (at) gmail.com.



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