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Taiwan is a fascinating country to visit, with ruggedly beautiful scenery and a vibrant culture that preserves the best of ancient traditions, while passionately embracing the newest in high-tech modernity. This new edition of Insight Guide Taiwan is a comprehensive full-colour travel guide to the beautiful island, where landscapes vary from dramatic mountains to white-sand beaches.
Inside Insight Guide Taiwan:
Lively features by a local writer cover a whole range of subjects: mountain trails and railways, soaking in hot springs, traditional markets, folk arts, tea culture and tribal peoples.
Stunning photography brings this intriguing country and its people to life.
Highlights of the countrys top attractions, including Taipei 101 - formerly the worlds tallest building, trying local snacks at a legendary night market and the fine collection of classical Chinese architecture
Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole country from the vibrant capital Taipei to the wilds of Kenting National Park, dramatic Taroko Gorge and the remote Matsu Islands
Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip.
About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers needs. Insight Guides unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type. - Wanderlust Magazine
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This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Taiwan, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editors Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Taiwan. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Taiwan are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
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Youll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Taiwan. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.
About Insight Guides
Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.
2017 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd
Taiwans Top 10 Attractions
From dramatic mountain landscapes to white-sand beaches, via some of the worlds best food and its finest collection of classical Chinese architecture, here is a shortlist of Taiwans most alluring attractions.
Top Attraction 1
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial . Built in memory of the generalissimo who long ruled over Taiwan, this is a grand architectural masterpiece built on an imperial scale that rivals Beijings Forbidden Palace for magnificence. For more information, .
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Top Attraction 2
Taipei 101 . Soaring 101 stories and for a time the worlds highest building, this is a wonder of engineering that offers tremendous views from its observation deck near the top. For more information, .
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Top Attraction 3
National Palace Museum . Home to the worlds greatest repository of Chinese art, collected over the course of a thousand years by Chinas emperors, with approximately 700,000 individual works, each priceless. For more information, .
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Top Attraction 4
Taroko Gorge . A deep, breathtaking 19km (12-mile) -long chasm of lofty, marble-laced cliffs and a cascading river strewn with massive boulders, traversed by a slow highway at the bottom literally chiseled from sheer rock. For more information, .
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Top Attraction 5
Kending National Park . At Taiwans tropical southern tip, this top tourist destination with an emphasis on conservation is a natural playground of upraised coral, exotic flora and fauna, sandy beaches, and blue-water recreation. For more information, .
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Top Attraction 6
Matsu Islands . The remote Matsu Islands in Taiwans straits, within sight of China, are a living museum of military and traditional East Fujian history. For more information, .
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Top Attraction 7
Food . The countrys history and location has made it a crossroads of humanity and a grand gourmet bazaar. The best initiation to Taiwans fantastic traditional snack culture is Taipeis incredibly diversified Shilin Night Market. For more information, .
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Top Attraction 8
Longshan Temple . When China was busily destroying its cultural heritage, Taiwans was being preserved and celebrated. Taipeis Longshan Temple is a place of beautiful art and ornate ritual. For more information, .
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Top Attraction 9
Cycling . A high-quality nationwide system of dedicated paths and lanes has been built. Circle the entire city of Taipei by riverside, and head to the north coast, on inexpensive rental bikes. For more information, .
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Top Attraction 10
Yangmingshan National Park . Just 40 minutes from downtown Taipei, overlooking the city, this is a large, easily reached getaway of volcanic landscapes, hot springs, pleasant trails, and colorful bird and butterfly life. For more information, .
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