Taiwanese travel tours
They will often provide better hotel and airplane rates too.
Signet Tours Inc.
http://www.signettours.com/
洛杉磯總公司
1170 Durfee Ave. Suite E
S. El Monte, CA 91733
Fax: (626) 575-3383
Email: info@signettour.com
Mon - Fri 09:00am~5:00pm (PST)
Sat 10:00am~2:00pm (PST)
台北辦事處
新進旅遊/ 超值旅遊
台北市松江路76號2樓, 郵遞區號 104
Tel:(02) 2561-7788
Fax: (02) 2581-8981
Email: member@sunshinetour.com.tw
Some personal highlights:
Taipei Sites
Taiwan Night Market -- Shilin Night Market
Eslite -- amazing modern design + taiwan book store
Check out a temple -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengjia_Longshan_Temple
National Palace Museum -- largest collection of chinese artefacts (since the communist burned everything)
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
Taiwan Hand Craft store -- http://www.handicraft.org.tw/en/index2.php -- I love this store. Lots of great traditional hand craft
Further afield Taipei
JiuFen -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiufen -- johnny's personal favorite
Lin Family Garden -- this is where we did the photo shoots
Danshui
see colonial Taiwan with Portuguese
Tainan -- South of Taiwan
see the colonial Taiwan when Holland
& history of Zheng Cheng-gong -- who tried to revive Ming Dynasty of China set up base in Taiwan
Taiwan is known for its beautiful nature hence the portuguese name for the island: Formosa (beautiful island)
Sun Moon Lake -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Moon_Lake
Taroko Gorge -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taroko_Gorge
This general area will have Aboriginal stuff
This will also be near Puli
