A once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage around Taiwan by motorbike
“Before they die,” Zhang, my friend in Taipei, told me when I arrived in the city, “a Taiwan person should achieve three things: Swim in the Sun Moon Lake, visit the highest peaks of the island, but most importantly…”
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Mads Vesterager Nielsen is a burgeoning explorer who rides his trusty motorbike, nicknamed “The Little Black Yak,” to far-flung corners of the People’s Republic. He is a staunch believer in the spirit of adventure, even in a modern and demystified world. Rather than clinging to old notions of glorious exploration, his background in the social sciences has led him to believe that “authenticity” is a messy mixture of ingredients such as culture, society, history, technology, and mythology as it exists today.
