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Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planets Taiwan is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cycle the East Coast, explore temple treasures and hike Taroko Gorge - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Taiwan and begin your journey now!
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- Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
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- Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics
- Covers Taipei, Northern Taiwan, Taroko National Park, the East Coast, Yushan National Park, Western Taiwan, Southern Taiwan, Taiwans Islands, and more
The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planets Taiwan is our most comprehensive guide to Taiwan, and is perfect for discovering both popular and off-the-beaten-path experiences.
About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the worlds number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, weve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. Youll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.
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Taiwan
Generous like its 23 million people, Taiwan offers wondrous vistas, lively traditions and a culture as luxuriant as Jade Mountain on a sunny day.
Famed for centuries as Ilha Formosa (Beautiful Isle; ; Mildo), this is a land with more sides than the 11-headed Guanyin. Towering sea cliffs, marble-walled gorges and tropical forests are just the start of your journey, which could take you as far as Yushan, Taiwans 3952m alpine roof.
In Taiwan you can criss-cross mountains on colonial-era hiking trails or cycle a lone highway with the blue Pacific on one side and green volcanic arcs on the other. And if you simply want classic landscapes to enjoy, youll find them around every corner.
Have you eaten? The words are used as a greeting here, and the answer is almost always yes, as theres just too much nibbling to do. Taiwan offers the gamut of Chinese cuisines, the best Japanese outside Japan, and a full house of local specialities from Tainan milkfish and Taipei beef noodles to indigenous barbecued wild boar. Night markets serve endless feasts of snacks including oyster omelettes, shrimp rolls and shaved ice. When youre thirsty you can indulge in juices from the freshest fruits, local craft beer, fragrant teas and, in a surprising twist, Asias best gourmet coffee and drinking chocolate.
Defying those who said it wasnt in their DNA, the Taiwanese have created Asias most vibrant democracy and liberal society, with a raucous free press, gender equality, and respect for human rights and, increasingly, animal rights as well. The ancestors are still worshipped, and parents still get their dues, but woe betide the politician who thinks its the people who must pander, and not them. If you want to catch a glimpse of the peoples passion for protest, check out Taipei main station on most weekends, or just follow the local news.
Taiwan is heir to the entire Chinese tradition of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and that amorphous collection of deities and demons worshipped as folk faith. Over the centuries the people have blended their way into a unique and tolerant religious culture thats often as ritual heavy as Cath-olicism and as wild as Santera. Taiwanese temples (all 15,000) combine worship hall, festival venue and art house under one roof. Watch a plague boat burn at Dong-long Temple, go on a pilgrimage with the Empress of Heaven, study a rooftop three-dimensional mosaic, and learn why a flag and ball have come to represent prayer.
By Piera Chen, Writer
When I first visited Taiwan aged six, the hotels pork cutlets impressed me. Later, as a fan of director Hou Hsiao-hsien, I went to Jiufen and Fengkuei, the settings for his films; I was hooked. Many trips and obsessions later, I now live in Taiwan, and am in love with Kaohsiungs flamboyant culture. Taiwan never ceases to surprise, like the night I waited for a meteor shower in Kenting. I had expected a crowd to show up, but found myself completely alone not even a hint of a shadow. Then I looked up: the whole sky was moving.
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