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- Taipei
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- New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
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Taiwan Slideshow
Top Hotels in Taiwan
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The Tango Xin Yi Taipei
83 reviews -
Chateau Beach Resort Pingtung
37 reviews
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KDM Hotel Taipei
90 reviews -
Les Suites Taipei (Ching Cheng)
274 reviews -
Hotel B Taipei
27 reviews
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Evergreen Laurel Hotel Taipei
69 reviews
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Hondo Hotel Taipei
26 reviews
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Sunroute Hotel Taipei
179 reviews
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Smartcue 52 Hotel Taichung
18 reviews
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Royal seasons hotel Taipei
95 reviews
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Taichung Masion de Chine Hotel
11 reviews
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Taipei Fullerton Funan
140 reviews
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Magnolia Hotel Taipei
1 review
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Shangri-La's Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Tainan
200 reviews
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Silken Hotel Taipei
15 reviews
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Royal Seasons Hotel Taipei
59 reviews
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Galerie Hotel Taichung
12 reviews
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Green Hotel Nantou
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Tango Nanshi Taipei
174 reviews
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Lees Boutique Hotel Kaohsiung
8 reviews
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San Want Residences Taipei
163 reviews
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Grandee Taipei Hotel
51 reviews
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Marshal Hotel Hualien
21 reviews -
Hotel Kuva Chateau Taoyuan
24 reviews
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The Lalu Sun Moon Lake Nantou
86 reviews
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Fullon Hotel Linkou Taoyuan
6 reviews
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Rainbow Hotel Taipei
156 reviews
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Dynasty Hotel Tainan
34 reviews
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Leader Hotel Taipei
17 reviews
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Marshal Taichung
25 reviews
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Yo Mi Hotel Taipei
244 reviews
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Nice Prince Hotel Chiayi
15 reviews
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Toong Mao Evergreen Hotel Kaohsiung
13 reviews
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Royal Inn Hotel Taipei
68 reviews
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Zhong Ke Hotel Taichung
11 reviews
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Formosan Naruwan Inn Taitung
14 reviews
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New World Hotel Taipei
101 reviews
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Chinatrust Executive Suites Peitou Taipei
6 reviews
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Eastern Beauty Hotel Taipei
10 reviews
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In One City Inn Taichung
22 reviews
Taiwan
Travel Blogs from Taiwan
A wonderful day in Wuling Recreation Area
This is a top pick! ... to get a ride to my next target, the camping place and the even higher located entrance to the second-highest mountain in Taiwan, the 3884m high Syue- Shan. I walk through the valley with old farm houses and fruit orchards. All is well developed ...
Wushe and return to Taipei - hike given up
This is a top pick! Total kilometers: 8 Total ascent: 160m Total descent: 160m The weather has improved a bit. The rain has stopped and sometimes the sun breaks through the clouds. We have breakfast in the garden of the hostel. Then we walk down to the lake, below ...
Walk to Lushan (hotspring village) and tea factory
This is a top pick! Total Distance: 25 km Total Ascent: 1.200m Today will be a bit tougher, about 1000m up. Now let's talk about the weather, anyhow everyone does: The forecast is all but good. So called Fong Mien rain is announced for the whole week, which means rain, ...
Hot springs and waterfalls on way to Meishan
This is a top pick! ... At 7:30 we walk a bit through the upper village, where we meet a man in his 50s from Hsinchu, who travels arround Taiwan on his motorbike. Near by one river flowing down the mounatin we look for glow worms. We see a few flickering their light to ...
Chiao Liouciou - Donggang - Kaoshiung - Taipei
This is a top pick! Total Distance: 7 km Altitude: 0 - ...
Country roads to Jialeshui - Hawaii in Taiwan
This is a top pick! ... and dryer than middle and north Taiwan. In Gangzai village I see for the first time the famous ( for Taiwan ) sand dunes, really quite impressive. Everywhere Jeeps in cowboy style are standing idle. I suppose on weekends its a huge craze ...
Next step on walk around Taiwan - Penghu islands
This is a top pick! ... is otherwise very dry, grey and brown bushes covering most of the land. In between some villages with pretty nice houses for Taiwan standard and small fields surrounded by coral stone walls - they are really very special and have a particular feeling ...
Along the coast from Daxi to Jiaochi
This is a top pick! Route: Along the coast from Daxi to Jiaochi Total distance: 26 km Altitude up/down: 0m I will continue to Jiaochi in Ilan county. My feet are all but well, but they are walkable ( word ?). I do as I had been told , lock the door, don't carry 1 or 2 ...
On way to Puli, Wushe for No.14 Nenggau trail
This is a top pick! Total kilometers: 13 Total ascend: 350m We take the former Government bus located next to the Main Train Station in Taipei for the trip from Taipei to Puli in Nantou County. The ride costs 400 NTD one way ( if you buy the return ...
The heat gets too much - return to Taipei
This is a top pick! Route: Kenting - Taipei ( by bus ) Total Distance: 9 hours After some neighbors still chatted till 11:30 pm I can find rest. At 3:15am I hear 'plog - plog' on my tent. I know , although I hope it would be, that is is not from monkeys, squarrels, ...
Easy day to Taitung
This is a top pick! ... herself as Nina from Tainan. She has just completed her studies in mass-communication and drives alone on her scooter around Taiwan. She knows some artists in Dulan. After an hour, at 9:00am we leave. Nina passes by us on her scooter, stops and ...
Return to Taiwan from Matsu by ship
This is a top pick! I forgot to mention: I had confirmed that the ship from Keelung had left the harbor - so, not being a pessimist and not expecting a major disaster my ferry should be here in the harbor. Mantou take-out breakfast and I wait at the bus station. After ...
How I planned my route
This is a top pick! ... some friends have expessed their interest to join on some stretches for a few days. There are a lot of mountain trails in Taiwan with different levels of difficulty and development: - several trails are listed ( also in English ) in a ...
Coast to coast - Pintung County to Taitung County
This is a top pick! Jin Shuei Ying ( Camp ) Historic Trail. It is one of the historic trails connecting the East and West coasts of Taiwan. Originally it has been 40km plus long, but now the first stretch is a concrete road leading to a military radar station. The remaining ...
1400m up to Tienchih through stunning landscape
This is a top pick! ... km section of the old Japanese cross island trail ( it is one of a total of 14 such cross island trails in all of Taiwan ). One purpose of these trails was to control the strong resistance by the aboriginal tribes. The trail is basically parallel to the ...
A day at the natural Li Sung hot spring in Motian
This is a top pick! Route: Lidao - Motien ( natural hot spring ) - Lidao ( by bus - already walked ) Total distance: 7 km Altitude up : 500m Altitude down: 500m Wake up at 6:00 am after a finally pretty good night's sleep. Beakfast is downstairs. I order ...
Lugu lake entry price to 100yuan from April 2011
This is a top pick! It had to happen: a new road, plans for an airport, and more development. So from 1 April 2011, the fee to enter Lugu lake area will increase to 100yuan. Over the last three years, the area has received 18,000,000 visitors. There's yet another glowing ...
My next portion: Ylan - Song Luo
This is a top pick! Route: Taipei ( train ) - Ylan - Song Luo Total Distance: 12 km Altitude: 0m Five days of rain were enough. Since yesterday the sun has shown its brightest side and that's a good reason to continue my walk. Bus to train station, train to ...
Visit to Tongpanyu island - basalt columns
This is a top pick! ... members living abroad have come back to cast their votes in the Presidential election. One of them explains to us a lot about Taiwan's politics ( he is a strong supporter of the DPP and Taiwan's independence - a bit strange I think to myself for ...
Step in between - Tungchu island
This is a top pick! Today is another beautiful day and I am ready to go to Nankan island. Breakfast on the terrace. The fisherman looks a bit depressed and tired. He reveals that he spent the whole night on the rocks beside the sea fishing and did not make the smallest ...
Easy day in Luodong at sea side
This is a top pick! Route: Wujie - Dongshan river park, Sea side - Wujie ( by bike ) Total Distance: 30 km by bike ( not counted in total ) Altitude: 0 Have my well-known great western breakfast on the terrace with music and the newspaper I just bought around the ...
Long walk via Maobitou to Fonggang
This is a top pick! Total Distance: 39 km Altitude: 300m As I foresaw a pretty long walk I intended to get going at 5:00am, but then rain kept me from leaving until 7:00am. The walk is through Kenting and then along the coast to the North. On the left side is the ocean and ...
By train from Taipei to Hualien
This is a top pick! Route: By train from Taipei to Hualien All packed again, I enter the Che Chiang class train at the Taipei main station at 15:42 pm. The train is packed with people, not only that no seats are available, all the walkways and sections between ...
An exausting day to highest street point - Hehuan
This is a top pick! ... ;are much more work intensive than vegetables - Local fruits get a lot of competition from fruits from overseas, especially since Taiwan joined the WTO ( World Trade Organization ) - Fruits can only be harvested once a year, while vegetables can grow ...
Jin Shuei Ying Trail ( East Sec. Hsinkai to 1430m)
This is a top pick! Jin Shuei Ying Trail Section from village Hsinkai to the official trail entrance at 1.430m. You follow the temple road towards the mountains - the trail is already marked. Then be careful: a) a road goes off on the right side - this is the road to the ...
Walking to the end of Southern Cross Highway No.20
This is a top pick! Route: Lidao - Wulu ( hot spring in hotels ) - Wulu historic Japanese trail - Wulu village - Hsin Wu village - Chulai village - Chihshang ( last part by police car ) - Yuli town ( by train ) Total Distance: 33 km Altitude up: 400m Altitude down: ...
My next goal: Wuling Recreation Area
This is a top pick! ... great baseball fan ( in the villages everyone is a baseball and basketball fan ) and he knows all teams and game results of the Taiwan and America league. Now that's not a topic for me as I don't even know the rules and I try to make clear ...
Walk of 9km in heavy rain and storm to Gangzai
This is a top pick! Walking the short section of 9km between Hsyhai and Gangzai on a day that turned out to be completely different than the previous days - strong rain and storm instead of sunshine. A small coastal road connects the two villages, originally only for ...