Company Profile
Camp Taiwan
Company Overview
"I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way; I will do what I know is right. I will look for the flowers by the side of the road; I will laugh and love and be strong. I will try to lighten another's load this day as I fare along."
~ Mary S. Edgar
Camp Taiwan is nestled on 80 acres in the northern-foothills of Yangming National Park approximately 45 minutes from Taipei. We offer stunning scenery in our terraced- fields, mountain trails, forests, ponds, streams and waterfalls.
Camp Taiwan offers something for everyone: From June through August, we will run a summer residential camp for children ages 9-115 years of age. For the rest of the year, we offer corporate team-building adventure weekends, family camping, small-group weekend retreats, and school ecology/ teambuilding programs.
Company History
Tom and Nara McDonald founded and built camp taiwan in 2002.
Originally from California, Tom attended University of California San Diego and has an M.S. from Stanford University. Tom came to Taiwan over 18 years ago as a university student studying Chinese. Before co-founding Camp Taiwan, he was the Greater China CEO of the world’s largest staffing and human resource consulting firm. Tom saw an opportunity to bring the fabulous American “sleepaway” camp tradition to Asia “I wanted to create a camp/retreat that showed off the natural beauty of Taiwan where kids and adults can come for an action-packed and spirited time.”
Nara McDonald grew up attending the same summer camp every summer for 10 years as a camper and 5 years as a counselor/ program director at a bilingual English/French camp in Quebec, Canada. “The camp experience really went a long way to shaping who I am today; Camp gave me an opportunity to learn and develop activity-based skills like canoeing, kayaking and archery, but more importantly, it taught me how to live with others, to appreciate the natural world and has given me life-long friendships.”
Nara has been in Taiwan since 1996, when she moved here to direct an international preschool.