【Taiwan Independent Travel: 12-Day Tour Taoyuan In/Out】

Taiwan Travel Guide / 12-Day Tour

•        Recommended Arrival Airport: Taoyuan Airport
•        Recommended Departure Airport: Taoyuan Airport
•        Touring Taiwan: Taichung ➠ Cingjing ➠ Tainan ➠ Kaohsiung ➠ Kenting ➠ Taitung ➠ Hualien ➠ Yilan ➠ Taipei

Day 1Day 1

• Taoyuan Airport >> Fengjia Night Market >> Accommodation: Taichung

Day 2Day 2

• Taichung Sun Cake Shop >> Rainbow Village (No. 1 Instagram check-in spot) >> Miyahara (a visually stunning historic building) >> Head to Cingjing after lunch >> Cingjing Skywalk (1.2 km long, at 1,800 m elevation overlooking Guanshan Pasture) >> Enjoy Thai-style dinner and accommodation >> Accommodation: Cingjing

Day 3Day 3

• Take a dedicated Hehuanshan shuttle for stargazing and sunrise viewing >> Cingjing Sheep Castle (get up close with sheep) >> Gaomei Wind Turbine Road for photos and Gaomei Wetland sunset views >> Fengjia Night Market >> Accommodation: Taichung

Day 4Day 4

• Travel to Tainan >> Sicao Green Tunnel (a world-class rare mangrove ecosystem with beautiful scenery throughout and professional guided tours) >> Anping Historic District (Anping historic houses, old street tofu pudding, oyster rolls, shrimp rolls, shrimp cakes……) >> Anping Port landmark The Blessings of the Great Fish >> Chimei Museum (exterior only) >> Dinner: goose meat / or beef soup / or ginger duck (eat in Tainan—Tainan snacks are famous across Taiwan) >> Accommodation: Tainan

Day 5Day 5

• Travel to Kaohsiung >> Kaohsiung Tianliao Moon World (Taiwan's badlands terrain where plants cannot grow, resembling a lunar landscape) >> Meinong Folk Village (Hakka bamboo-strip crafts, Meinong paper umbrella DIY, traditional toys (see what Taiwanese children used to play with)) >> Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum (one of Taiwan's four major religious institutions, listed as a world-class museum) >> Kaohsiung Port Pier-2 Art Center + Pier-2 Art Zone (a premium creative park where Eslite Bookstore and Sunny Hills have branches) >> Kaohsiung Love River >> Accommodation: Kaohsiung

Day 6Day 6

• Travel to Kenting >> Wanluan pig trotters in Pingtung (president-recommended famous delicacy) >> Fuan Temple (Southeast Asia's largest Tudigong temple) browse the market and try the specialty dessert "Hot and Cold Ice" >> Longpan Grassland (uplift terrain overlooking the vast Pacific Ocean) >> Wind-blown Sand (Hengchun's unique foehn wind phenomenon) >> Sail Rock (a natural rock resembling the profile of U.S. President Nixon—see if it looks like you too) >> Eluanbi Lighthouse (famous Taiwan landmark, exterior only) >> Kenting Street >> Dinner: Kenting Street on your own or B&B BBQ >> Accommodation: Kenting 

Day 7Day 7

• Travel to Taitung >> Southern Cross-Island Highway >> Native Plant Application Garden for health hot pot >> Taitung landmark Millennium Dawn Park >> Cycle around Black Forest Living Water Lake >> Fushan Fish Conservation Area >> Water Flowing Uphill (unique geological feature) >> Luye Highland (vast healing grassland with panoramic views of the Huadong Valley) >> Accommodation: Tianlong Hotel at the southern end of the Southern Cross-Island Highway >> Evening activities: indigenous archery (Ear-Shooting Festival), mochi pounding, indigenous song and dance experience (fully participatory activities throughout)

Day 8Day 8

• Wulu Gorge (a grand S-shaped gorge with rushing Wulu Stream and colorful cliff walls) >> Liukou Hot Spring (foot soaking) >> indigenous Dulun (mochi souvenirs) >> Cycle around Dapo Pond and Brown Avenue >> Chishang Wu-Tao Bento (Taiwan's most famous railway lunch box) >> Accommodation: Chishang

Day 9Day 9

• Travel to Hualien >> Eurasian and Philippine Plate boundary (stand with one foot on each plate) >> Wuhe Tropic of Cancer landmark >> Wild Monkey Adventure Park (diverse experiences—outdoor cooking / rafting / river tracing / river drift, challenging yourself amid excitement) >> Dongdamen Night Market >> Accommodation: Hualien

Day 10Day 10

• Central Cross-Island Highway Archway (an important Taiwan highway landmark and popular photo spot) >> Qixingtan (beach facing the Pacific Ocean) >> Taroko National Park (Shakadang Trail, Changchun Shrine Trail) >> Qingshui Cliff (nearly 90-degree vertical cliffs overlooking the sea) >> Suhua Highway (Taiwan's most beautiful coastal highway) >> Luodong Night Market >> Accommodation: Luodong

Day 11Day 11

• Jimmy Creative District (Diu Diu Dang Forest, picture-book landscapes come to life) >> Jiaoxi Tangweigou fun hot spring fish foot nibbling >> Beiguan Tidal Park (rocky coast with Guanyin of the North Sea inside a sea cave) >> Nanya Rock Formations >> Ningxia Night Market >> Accommodation: Taipei

Day 12Day 12

• Shifen Waterfall (20-meter drop, Taiwan's most famous waterfall) >> Shifen Old Street sky lantern release for blessings >> Jiufen Old Street (famous old street with teahouses, taro balls, fish balls, red yeast meat balls….) >> Golden Waterfall (unique landscape with orange-gold water flow) >> Yin-Yang Sea (unique landscape with two-toned seawater) >> Remains of the Thirteen Layers (resembling Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky) >> Wufenpu (wholesale clothing market) >> Raohe Night Market >> Accommodation: Ximending