Taiwan: Taiping Lighthouse

On 8th June I got three postcards: one from Taiwan and two from Germany.

The card from Taiwan shows the Taiping Lighthouse. Taiping Island or Itu Aba is one of the Spratly Islands. It is controlled by Taiwan, but also claimed by China, the Philippines and Vietnam. Shortly before I got this card, the Punk Philatelist wrote an interesting article about this lighthouse, which you can read HERE.

Four nice stamps were used on this card, but as I usually do not have luck with identifying Taiwanese stamps, I do not even try with these. This card was by the way sent through official Postcrossing.

Thank You very much Scott!