The East Coast (Hualien & Taroko)3 places
- Green Island (Ludao)A small volcanic island off Taiwan's southeast coast with clear-water diving, one of the world's few saltwater hot…
- Taroko Gorge & HualienA canyon cut through solid marble, so narrow in places that the walls nearly close overhead, with a road and footpaths…
- Taitung & the East Rift ValleyThe quiet end of Taiwan — the Pacific on one side, the Central Mountains on the other, the cleanest air on the island…
The North (Taipei & Yilan)3 places
- TaipeiA capital where you can eat your way through a night market for a few pounds, soak in a volcanic hot spring inside the…
- JiufenA gold-mining town stacked up a hillside above the sea northeast of Taipei, hung with red lanterns and threaded by…
- The Pingxi Line & HoutongA single-track coal railway built in the 1920s, now running tourists up a green gorge past a waterfall, a village that…
The South (Tainan, Kaohsiung & Kenting)3 places
- KaohsiungTaiwan's big southern port, warm when Taipei is grey and drizzling, where disused dock warehouses became an arts…
- TainanThe island's capital for over two centuries and still its food capital: a low, hot, temple-dense city where the local…
- Xiaoliuqiu (Little Liuqiu)Taiwan's only coral island, twenty-five minutes off the southwest coast, where green sea turtles are common enough in…