Taiwan

Landing at Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport and need to get to your hotel? Pre-book a professional, competent and reliable private transfer. From the moment you arrive in Taipei, you'll be provided with a comfortable and efficient transfer from Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport to your downtown Taipei hotel. Transfers operate 24 hours, 7 days a week.

When making a booking, you will need to advise your flight details and your Taipei accommodation details. Your transfer will be confirmed at time of booking and you will be provided with a voucher to present to the driver.

Vehicles used:

• Air-conditioned Nissan Teana (1 to 2 people)
• Air-conditioned Volkswagen Micro Van (3 to 6 people)
• Air-conditioned Toyota 18 seater (7 to 9 people)

Need to get to Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport? Plan your trip ahead of time, and pre-book your professional and reliable private transfer. Don't pay high cab fares or carry your luggage onto public transport - arrive at the airport on time, relaxed and with money in your pocket!

Transfer services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Please be ready at your hotel reception for your departure airport transfer, your driver will be carrying a sign with your name.

When making a booking, you will need to advise your flight details and your Taipei accommodation details. Your transfer will be confirmed at time of booking and you will be provided with a voucher to present to the driver.

Vehicles used:

• Air-conditioned Nissan Teana (1 to 2 people)
• Air-conditioned Volkswagen Micro Van (3 to 6 people)
• Air-conditioned Toyota 18 seater (7 to 9 people)

Get a glimpse of Taipei on this three-hour tour. See how the people live in this interesting city. Visit Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall, Martyrs's Shrine, a classic Ming Dynasty architecture and later onto the National Palace Museum. Conclude with a visit to a Handicraft Center to view typical Taiwanese craftsmanship.

You'll be picked up from your Taipei city hotel and guided around Taipei's best attractions. Visit the grandiose Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall, in downtown Taipei to pay homage to the late President Chiang Kai-Shek. Travel to Martyrs' Shrine to see an excellent example of classical Ming Dynasty architecture dedicated to the fallen war heroes of the country and see the hourly changing of the guard ceremony.

The three-hour Taipei tour continues to the National Palace Museum, which houses the world's largest and most valuable collection of Chinese art treasures. There are permanent displays of ceramics, bronzes, oracle bones, porcelain, paintings, calligraphy, enamelware, jade, Ching dynasty costume, carvings, and cabinets, as well as temporary exhibitions of other items.

Travel to one of the many traditional Chinese temples that surround Taipei city. Then it's time for some shopping at the Handicraft Center, the center offers Taiwanese craftsmanship including jewelry, art and furniture.

Tour Highlights

• Drive past Presidential Building
• Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall
• Martyrs' Shrine (War Memorial)
• National Palace Museum
• Chinese Temple
• Handicraft Center

A geologists dream tour, explore the harbor city of Keelung on this four-hour tour from Taipei. A 40-minute drive northeast of Taipei, Keelung is one of Taiwan's international seaports. Travel to the Northern Coast of Taiwan to the fascinating natural rock formations of Yehliu Park, where you will discover the infamous rock formations of the Queen's Head and Fairy's Shoe, a fascinating place for a day trip.

You'll be picked up from your Taipei city hotel at 8:00am and travel to the northern coast through rich farming land to the growing industrial area and harbor of Keelung.

Continue along the northern coast to Yehliu Park, the highlight of this tour. Yehliu Park is known for it's spectacular rock formations, sculptured throughout the ages by wind and sea erosion leaving fascinating pillars including the famous Queen's Head.

Tour Highlights:

• Keelung City
• Keelung Harbour
• Yehliu Natural Park - Queen's Head

Explore the Northeast Coast of Taipei and stroll through the Chiufen Village also known as Jiufen on this four-hour tour from Taipei. Drive to the east coast of Taipei to visit the Northeast Coast National Scenic Area, a popular swimming spot for the locals. Offering fascinating rock formations, lighthouses, fishing villages, pastoral farmlands and temples.

You'll be picked up from your Taipei city hotel at 1:00pm, drive along the northeast coast of Taiwan to the National Scenic Area, popular location with the locals. The northeast coast scenic area is noted for its numerous capes and bays backed by green mountains. Visit Pitou Cape, tall abrasion caves and platforms and other eroded landforms which can be clearly seen on the cape's hanging cliff.

The tour continues to Nanya, a coastline filled with amazing rock formations, a sea-eroded coral shore. The patterned stone is unique in Taiwan and formed through the weathering of the sandstone that lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the stone gives it a beautiful striped pattern.

Travel to the quaint little village of Chiufen Village (Jiufen), once the gold mining center of Taiwan. The gold is gone, but Chiufen (Jiufen) built of closely-packed houses clinging to steep mountainsides, continue to offer enchanting scenery, unique teahouses and fascinating glimpses into the lifestyles of the past.

Tour Highlights

• Chiufen Village (Jiufen)
• Pass by Chinkuashin Village
• Pitou Cape
• Nanya Rock Formations
• Bay of Two Colors

Explore the two neighboring towns of Yingge and Sansia on this tour from Taipei. Yingge is Taiwan's ceramic and potter capital, producing magnificent hand-painted works of art, from earthenware tea sets to delicate statues. Visit Sansia's Ching Shui Tsu Shih Temple, which is one of the world's finest examples of current Chinese temple art built in 1769.

Tour Highlights

• Sansia Ching Shui Tsu Shih Temple
• Old Street in Sansia
• Yingge's Pottery Factory and Showroom
• Pottery Street in Yingge

This tour visits the neighboring towns of Yingge and Sansia. Yingge is Taiwan's pottery capital, a small town that produces hand-painted replicas of elegant Ming and Ching vases like those that once graced the places in Peking. The old Yingee pottery street is famous for it's ceramic and pottery stores. You'll have the opportunity to purchase some of these exquisite items. Every October the town holds a pottery street festival.

Visit a local Pottery factory where you can watch potters' working the clay and artists painting vases.

Tour continues to the traditional country town of Sansia, originally called Sanjiauyung. The main attraction in Sansia is the artistic Ching Shui Tsu Shih Temple, built in 1769 and destroyed in the 1833 earthquake, it was later rebuilt in 1867. The Ching Shui Tsu Shih Temple is famous for its camphor wood carvings. It is graded a a historic site and is one of Taipei's major temples.

Walk the beautiful old street of Sansia, lined with old western style buildings decorated with wood carvings as well as bronze and stone sculptures.

Taipei comes alive at night and the city is a buzzing. This 3.5-hour night tour of Taipei starts with a delicious Mongolian barbeque dinner at a downtown restaurant, stroll through the exotic night markets, explore the ancient Lungshan Temple and watch Taipei sparkle on top of the worlds 2nd tallest building, the 101 Building.

You'll be picked up from Taipei city hotel at 6:00pm and taken to a local restaurant where you'll enjoy a delicious Mongolian barbeque dinner, with many choices of meats, vegetables and spices that will tantalize your tastebuds. After dinner continue to the exotic Hwahsi Street night markets and Snake Alley, lined with food stalls and small shops. Pick up a bargain!

The night tour of Taipei conitnues to the ancient Lungshan Temple, often crowded with worshippers. The Lungshan Temple is one of Taiwan's finest examples of temple architecture. Ancient Buddhist rituals are still practiced at the Lungshan Temple. The last stop on this night tour is at famous 101 Building, the world's 2nd tallest building. The 101 Building (admission to be payable direct) is a must-do attration while in Taipei, 508 meters tall and completed in 1999, Taipei 101 contains a 5-storey shopping center.

Tour Highlights

• Mongolian Barbeque dinner
• Lungshan Temple
• Hwahsi Street Night Market
• Taipei 101 Building (entrance fee payable direct)

Want to take a relaxing hot spring bath? Visit the Yangmingshan National Park and Peitou on this tour from Taipei. Visit the hot spring and fumaroles, the tranquil lakes and beautiful grass fields on this relaxing half-day tour from Taipei. The Peitou hot springs are said to relieve all ailments from muscle pain to nervous tension.

Tour Highlights

• Yangmingshan National Park
• Peitou Hot-Spring Bath

Yangmingshan National Park is located just to the north of Taipei, it's Taipei's closest national park. It is a volcanic terrain type park, rich with butterflies and birds. With crater lakes and sulfur fumaroles, hot springs, grassy plaines and blossoming cherry trees, the Yangminshan National Park is popular with locals and tourist alike.

After an hour's drive, stops will be made at the volcano site and Yangming Park.

Continue the drive downhill to Peitou area to experience one of the best hot spring bath in Taiwan. Bathing in the hot-spring water has a relaxing and refreshing effect. It helps to relieve muscle pains, nervous pains, digestive problems, arteriosclerosis and other ailments.

Wulai is a famous mountain village in northern Taiwan and is located in water reservation area. Residents are mostly aboriginal people (Tai Ya Tribe). See the famous Wulai Waterfall which is about 80 meters high. The highlight of the visit to this area is a singing and dancing show by aboriginal people.

Tour Highlights

• Scenic push-car ride
• Wulai Waterfall
• Aborigine Folk Dance
• Pass by Swallow Lake
• Chieftain Statue

Wulai, about 10 miles south of Pitan, is the most accessible area from Taipei to view the aboriginal tribesmen who once were the head hunters of Taiwan. See the famous Wulai Waterfall, falling from about 80 meters high and likened to magnificent white silk cloth coming down from the sky.

Drive along scenic mountain road following aborigine and ride in unique push-car to the top of a deep ravine. This is Wulai where aborigine girls will tell you of their lives in graceful song and dance.

Enjoy a cultural 5-hour tour of Taipei, this tour takes you to Yilan, beside the Dongshan River to the National Center for Traditional Arts. Stroll through the 24-hectares that houses the traditional theaters, Wen-Chang Temple, exhibition center and music hall.

You'll be picked up from your selected hotel and taken to Yilan via the Hsuehsan Tunnel (12.9km), the second longest tunnel in Asia to tour the 24-hectare National Center for Traditional Arts. This large facility houses several theaters, a exhibition center as well three historical buildings that were removed from their original locations and rebuilt at the museum. In addition to these organized displays, performances of culture and art, the National Center also provides a stage where performing artists can show off their creative works.

Shop at the many handicraft stores on folk custom street. The annual Asia Pacific Arts Festival is held here around October with colorful indoor and outdoor performances.

This 5-hour cultural tour of The National Center for Traditional Arts protects and promotes the traditional folk art of Taiwan. Enjoy and learn about Taiwan on this colourful tour.

See one of the seven wonders of Asia, the Taroko Gorge. Take a short plane trip to Hualien from Taipei to see this great wonder, a must-do while in Taipei.

You'll be picked up from your Taipei city hotel at 6:00am to travel by plane to Hualien, a 25-minute flight. This full-day guided tour will take you to the Taroko Gorge. A 20-kilometer section of the highway that runs from Taroko to Tiansiang.

The stunning gorge is known for its sheer marble cliffs, deep, winding tunnels, and the Liwu River, which flows through its craggy landscape. Travel through Swallows Grotto, where the section of the highway runs through tunnels carved into the marble vertical sides of the gorge.

Travel through 38 tunnels including the Tunnel of Nine Turns, with it's endless series of turns, this is a stunning part of the gorge and where numerous hiking trails begin.

See the Eternal Spring Shrine, one of the most photographed scenes around the gorge. These little temples were built to memorise those that have lost their lives in the construction of the central cross-island highway.

Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant. Continue to the Chi Hsing Beach and Hualien Stone Sculptural Park and visit a marble factory before returning to Taipei by train.

Tour Highlights

• Hualien and Hualien Stone Sculptural Park
• Taroko Gorge Gateway
• Eternal Spring Shrine
• Swallow Caves
• Tunnel of Nine Turns
• Tienhsiang Lodge
• Marble Factory
• Chi Hsing Beach