Wenwu Temple at Sun Moon Lake. Sun Moon Lake in Nantou county is one of Taiwan's premier tourist destinations.

October 10 is Taiwan’s National Day and this year marks the 100th year of the Republic of China, as Taiwan is officially named. That means parades, fireworks, military fly-by’s, and everything else associated with a centennial celebration. Below I’ve put together a rough slideshow featuring 100 photographs from around Taiwan as my contribution to the celebration. This was thrown together very quickly as I’m currently on assignment in Nepal and didn’t have as much time as I’d have liked to devote to this before I left as I’d have liked.

As with anything of this nature that concerns the status of Taiwan, it can get political. On this blog, I don’t do politics, so whatever your thoughts and feelings about Taiwan’s status, independence or the appropriateness of the centennial, I request that you debate them somewhere else. Any politic comments here will be treated as spam and dealt with accordingly.

Don’t forget to keep your guesses for the theme contest coming in. I won’t be announcing the winner or correct answer until the end of the month, so there’s still plenty of time to try your luck and plenty of photos to come.

Pictured above are Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), president of Taiwan (ROC), vice president Vincent Siew (蕭萬長) and KMT chairman Wo Po-hsiung (吳伯雄).