Until recently, though, visitors from the West tended to be disappointed.

This is a great year-round destination, though most visitors tend to come during the summer and over the winter holidays.

The foreign visitors tend to vary in their approach to the Town Center.

The sounds told them for instance that visitors tended to linger more in the wee hours.

"Not that it was crowded; visitors tended to get a bit lost in the 130 rooms given over to the exhibition."

Seeing the home team tucking in, the visitors tended to relax and do the same.

These visitors tend to stop first at a huge palace surrounded by a concrete wall that seems to be the right address.

Unfortunately, just when their conversion seems complete, the visitors tend to become wistful.

Most visitors tend to stick to developed areas and short hiking trails, which is a shame.

Nonetheless, visitors tend to come to Taiwan primarily for what is older, enduring, traditional.