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Explore Taiwan

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Explore Taiwan

Discover the highlights of Taiwan on this 11-day adventure. After eating your way through Taipei’s famous street food, travel to Yilan to meet an Indigenous community, learn about their way of life and share a home-cooked lunch. Then, explore the pagodas and trails of the serene Sun Moon Lake in the Central Mountain Range before travelling to Chiayi to visit a tea farm and meet nuns at a Buddhist monastery. With a scenic train ride through Alishan’s tropical forests, clam picking at a traditional fishing village and a local leader to show you around, this is an action-packed, immersive introduction to Taiwan.

Activities
  • Taipei - Dihua Street walk
  • Taipei - Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall
  • Yilan - Spring onion farm & cooking demostration
  • Taipei - National Palace Museum
  • Yilan - Indigenous Atayal tribe half day visit
  • Yilan - Morning market visit & Peanut roll icecream making
  • Sun Moon Lake - Ci'en Pagoda Trail walk
  • Sun Moon Lake - Bike Ride
  • Puli - Chung Tai Chan Monastery
  • Puli - Hugosum Tea Farm
  • Alishan - Forest railway
  • Alishan - Sacred Forest Trail hike
  • Lukang - Longshan Temple
  • Fangyuan - Clam picking
Highlights
  • Discover Taiwan’s culinary traditions by collecting clams, rolling your own tea leaves at a plantation and cooking farm-fresh spring onion pancakes.
  • Hike through misty mountain foothills to a nine-tiered pagoda overlooking Sun Moon Lake and ride around the emerald-coloured waters on a cycling adventure.
  • Spend the day with the Indigenous Atayal community to learn about their tribal costumes, face tattoos and traditional survival techniques, and share a home-cooked meal that showcases Indigenous flavours.
  • Explore stalls piled with dried fruits, herbs and traditional medicines on Dihua Street – considered one of the oldest streets in Taiwan.
  • Ride the Forest Railway train through Alishan’s tropical and subtropical forests and hike the Sacred Forest Trail among giant Cypress trees.
Interests
  • Adventure and Active
About Intrepid Travel
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We've been taking travellers around the globe and connecting people from all walks of life since 1989.

That's over 30 years of adventures, visiting new places and old friends, and countless, unforgettable moments. More than 30 years of changing the way people see the world on small group trips with like-minded explorers and a local leader to show you around.

But to us, it's about more than just seeing the world, it's about experiencing it. It's about feeling its pulse and the shared rhythms of Intrepid people all over the world. To be Intrepid is far more than a lust for travel, we're an antidote to loneliness. We connect people to the heartbeat of adventure and the soul of the planet.

May 17, 2025 through
May 27, 2025
May 13, 2025 7:00 PM
10 Nights from
$2,958.00 (USD)
Per Person
Jun 12, 2025 through
Jun 22, 2025
Jun 8, 2025 7:00 PM
10 Nights from
$2,676.00 (USD)
Per Person
Jul 10, 2025 through
Aug 07, 2025
Aug 3, 2025 7:00 PM
10 Nights from
$3,445.00 (USD)
Per Person
Various departures
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Itinerary

Day Destination
1 Taipei
2 Taipei
3 Yilan
4 Yilan
5 Sun Moon Lake
6 Sun Moon Lake
7 Chiayi
8 Alishan/Chiayi
9 Taichung
10 Taipei
11 Taipei
Prices are per-person based on double occupancy, unless otherwise noted.