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- Taipei
- Capital
- New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
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Taiwan Slideshow
Top Hotels in Taiwan
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Hotel Eclat Taipei
115 reviews -
Ambience Hotel Taipei
190 reviews
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Empress Hotel Taipei
76 reviews -
Tango Linsen(Taipei Linsen)
33 reviews -
Wei-Yat Toong Mao Grand Hotel Tainan
5 reviews
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Lakeshore Hotel Metropolis I Hsinchu
18 reviews
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Park Taipei Hotel
158 reviews
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Grand Victoria Hotel Taipei
32 reviews
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Royal Seasons Hotel (Hot Spring Beitou) Taipei
26 reviews
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Hotel Flowers Taipei
186 reviews
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Eastern Beauty Hotel Taipei
10 reviews
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In One City Inn Taichung
22 reviews
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Kaohsiung Gear Hotel
9 reviews
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Cambridge Hotel (Jian Kang) Tainan
1 review
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Les Suites Taipei Da-An
97 reviews
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Relite Hotel Taipei
432 reviews -
Royal Kaohsiung Hotel (Zhongshan)
3 reviews
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Puyuma Hotel Tainan
13 reviews
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Beauty Hotels Taipei - Hsuanmei Boutique
69 reviews
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Grand Forward Hotel Xinbei
26 reviews
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Hotel Tilun Tonpo Spa Nantou
3 reviews
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King Shi Hotel Taipei
29 reviews
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Howard Lake Resort Shihmen Dam Taoyuan
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Cambridge Hotel Tainan
19 reviews
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Friends Yu-Yu Hotel Taipei
8 reviews
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Hotel Sense Taipei
50 reviews
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Forte Dong-shan Villa Llan
5 reviews
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Howard Garden Suites Taipei
13 reviews
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Viscount Taipei
26 reviews
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Howard Green Garden Taipei
6 reviews
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Rich Garden Hotel Taipei
51 reviews
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Dolamanco Taipei
29 reviews
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Luckynews Classic Hotel Taoyuan
23 reviews
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Grand Earl Hotel Yun-lin
4 reviews
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Good Ground Hotel Tainan
29 reviews
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Donghwa Hotel Taipei
6 reviews
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City Suites Gateway Taoyuan
40 reviews
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Taipei Fullerton 315 Hotel
47 reviews
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Dandy Hotel - Daan Taipei
97 reviews
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Hara Zuru Hotel Taoyuan
6 reviews
Taiwan
Travel Blogs from Taiwan
Reach highest point Yakou-stay in Hostel
This is a top pick! ... , so that for a long time we can see the Memorial of Tienchih just from the opposite side. Here we are! The famous ( in Taiwan ) 615 m long Da Guan Shan tunnel at Yakou. The tunnel cuts through the mounatains at the highest point of the Southern Cross ...
A long walk up to Taiping Shan (Taiping mountain)
This is a top pick! ... and I often slip on the wet grass and getting back on my feet is not easy with the backpack ), pass by the Baling Taiwan Red Cypress Giant Tree and a side trail called Jianching historic trail. This trail has been a logging train track a century ago. ...
To Daxi via Caoling, Taoyuan, Daxi historic trails
This is a top pick! Route: Fulong - Caoling Trail - Taoyuan Trail - Daxi Trail - Daxi Total distance: 19 km Altitude up: 900m Altitude down: 900m One friend, Karsten called last night that he can't make it due to a business trip. So only one other hiking friend Tsai ...
Da Ba close, but not reached - return
This is a top pick! Total Kilometers: 17 Total Altitude ( down ): 1.400m Total Altitude ( up ) : 200/300m About 4:30am life begins on the camp site. I try to close my eyes a bit longer. After a pretty nice night without rain and even some stars in the sky it ...
Taipei
This is a top pick! ... with new pavements, hotels and lots of things to make American businessmen feel comfortable. Several blocks away however the real Taiwan takes over. The spit polish gleam goes away and the reality chaos of Taiwan comes out. There are areas in Taipei ...
Arrived safely in Taipei
This is a top pick! I found a free Internet cafe in the airport in Taipei, so I figured I'd kill a little bit of my layover and drop a quick note to let you know that I've arrived safely. Surprisingly the flight here was really great. I got a window seat, and ...
Resting a day in Kenting
This is a top pick! Total distance: 10 km I wake up at 5:30am, after only 3.5 hours sleep. I feel like being run over by a truck. No way to move on today. I pay my camping fee and have chat with the owner of the pace whom I know. So decide to move to the Katholic ...
Huting Bay to Shihtiping
This is a top pick! ... mountains near to the coast and the road, not only in the high mountains. I have now seen them from the mountains in North Taiwan to even here. More often than seeing them I hear them with a most unpleasant " Krae, Krae " ( a bit disappointing for ...
A wet day: White water rafting on Siouguluan river
This is a top pick! ... ( sorry, I do not remember the name, but quite in the middle of the stretch ) has the most water buffalows in Taiwan. One or two shops sell the meat - he says very good as the cows only eat grass. Back at Ruei Shuei railway station Tsai ...
Day hike on Bei Cha Tien Shan
This is a top pick! ... , beautiful and challenging one ( and one trip I have photos from ). This will give an idea what mountain hikes in Taiwan are like. As I have described before there are a lot of mountains to choose from, even just close to Taipei. ...
Nankan - a bit messed up day
This is a top pick! Today I will move on to another homestay ' Night on the Bay ', No 159 in an old house in Fuhsing in the northeast of the island. But first I will have my breakfast on the terrace up the slope of the hills facing the bay. I found out yesterday that this ...
A lazy day on Nankan - not much to report
This is a top pick! Sorry, today I am lazy. I have seen most spots to be seen, have walked it all, now I'm just going to hang around enjoying my extra day. See you ...
Start Southern Cross highway 20-deep in Bunun land
This is a top pick! ... reach because the trail had been destroyed in a typhoon and the way is totally overgrown - it is another sign of the power of Taiwan's nature/ flora. Tsai Chin goes into the hot spring, joining maybe 10 other people who are coming and going. I am too lazy ...
Fushan to Shang Baling old trail
This is a top pick! Route: Fushan - La La Shan - Shang Baling Total Distance: 28 km Altitude up: 1.300m ( highet point 1.710m ) Altitude down: 500m It's 5:00 am, the alarm clock of Joe's mobile phone rings - really already time to wake up? It's still dark and it ...
First stage of walk around the main island Taiwan
This is a top pick! ... tea. Its now popular for tea culture and viewing the night scenery of Taipei ) and Chinan Gung Taoist temple, one of Taiwan's main Taoist temples. My way leads me for kilometers through a grave yard covering the whole slope - just the right ...
Crossing Coastal Mountains on road No.23
This is a top pick! Route: Fuli - Road No. 23 - Donghe Farm - Tai Yuan village - Donghe village - Dulan ( by bus ) Total Distance: 45 km + 5 Dulan = 50 km( my walk 38 km ) Altitude up: 600m Altitude down: 800m The handy alarm rings; it is 4:15am. ...
Ship and bus to Kaoshiung and Kenting
This is a top pick! Total Distance: 8 km Today is my departure from Penghu. As my ship is only leaving at four o'clock pm I have some time to kill. After a breakfast, which I got from the receptionist lady in the Youth Hostel, I walk through Makong city and have ...
Paoma trail to Pinglin and Taipei/ Pigeon racing
This is a top pick! ... than US$20,000. Pigeon racing was introduced to Taiwan by the Japanese, not kowing what they would cause by this. Taiwan's unique contribution to global pigeon racing: eye reading, a fancier can tell if a bird is suited for short or long races, ...
Coastal walk from Hsin Cheng to Hualien
This is a top pick! ... a well earned cold Pearl- Milk-Tea. The train leaves at 17:20 and arrives in Taipei at 20:35. Monday, April 30th I will continue from Hualien to the Southern most tip of Taiwan. See you then. Hope you will join me again on my ...
Taiwan Part 1
This is a top pick! ... night the chaos is relatively controlled. But then, it was inevitable that my trip would be a study in contrasts between Korea and Taiwan. I went as much for a taste-test of living there, as for a vacation. And I wasn't disappointed. I would work there ...
Taiwan Part 2
This is a top pick! ... more about Korea, and found a great recruitment agent who set me up. The distance between the two countries negligible, though Taiwan is tropical. In fact, the Tropic of Cancer runs right through Taiwan. The country is awash with rice-paddies and palm ...
Departure date from Nankan - I thought
This is a top pick! ... one basket ( the ship ) I also book a flight for next day 1:50 pm. As you can see from today's experience transportation to/from Taiwan and weather don't mix well in Matsu - and that on a day I would call a beautiful day! Now I have another ...
Arriving in Tiensiang, Taroko Gorge
This is a top pick! ... bit worn out. Other places to stay are: another church above the Regent hotel, the 5 star Regent hotel ( only by Taiwan standard ) and a Youth Activity Center. The afternoon we spend leasurely reading in the garden coffee shop of the Regent hotel, ...
Walking to Yuemeikang Waterfall
This is a top pick! Yuemeikang Waterfall along Dezikou River walk is - easy and beautiful - 45 minutes one way - towards the end a bit more difficult walk. With low water you can reach the waterfall with your shoes on. With higher water you might have to take the shoes off ...
Checking out southern side of Husi island,Penghu
This is a top pick! Total kilometers: 16 Altitude: close to 0 When I wake up I am still pretty tired from losing my battle against a mosquito. I have my breakfast in a sandwhich breakfast shop near the hostel and the bus station ( all close by ). I had asked ...
Jinluen by bus toTaitung,by plane to Lanyu
This is a top pick! Total Distance: 12 km Altitude - no worth ...
Curiouser and Curiouser.
This is a top pick! We've made it! Eva and I are now resting comfortably in her parent's home in Taya, outside the city of Taichung. It is raining pretty heavily outside, but that's quite alright as I'm sipping a cup of really hot, fragrant tea and Eva's mom is just ...
Shihtiping to Yiwan, where I find place in church
This is a top pick! Route: Shihtiping - Dagangkou ( mouth of Siouguluansi -river ) - Tropic of Cancer - Basian Cave - Changbin - Shihyuan - Yiwan village Total Distance: 23km Altitude: Difficult to say, always a bit up and a bit down Wake up at 4:15 am, but ...
Next section - the Southern Cross Highway (No.20)
This is a top pick! Route: Taipei - Tainan - Bulao ( by bus/ police car ) Total Distance: 0 km Altitude: 0m A new start, this time the Southern Cross Highway No 20. The main reason is that the temperature in the mountain should be cooler. The humid summer temperature ...