A deep marble gorge carved by the Liwu River in eastern Taiwan, with sheer cliffs, temples and trails. Highlights include the Swallow Grotto, the Tunnel of Nine Turns and the Eternal Spring Shrine, built over a waterfall.
The 2024 earthquake damaged roads and trails, and parts remain closed; check the national park's updates before you go. Hualien is the gateway, 2 hours from Taipei by train.
Taiwan's largest lake, in the mountains of central Taiwan, surrounded by forested hills, temples and pagodas.
A 508 m skyscraper shaped like a stack of bamboo sections, the world's tallest building from 2004 to 2010.
Taiwan is famous for its night markets, crowded with food stalls.
One of the greatest collections of Chinese art in the world, with nearly 700,000 objects, many brought from the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1949.
A narrow-gauge mountain railway climbing from the plains of Chiayi through bamboo and cypress forests to the Alishan area, famous for sunrise over a …
A former gold-mining town on a steep hillside above the sea north-east of Taipei, with narrow alleys of teahouses, red lanterns and food stalls, said…
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