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When you book your shore excursion, you'll travel by bus to:

Taipei (1 hour from the port) or
Northeast coast (45 minutes in each direction)

Full (6-8 hours) and half day trips (4 hours)

Often you'll see 40-50 buses lined up waiting for your arrival. See you there !
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Cruise tours Taiwan

Published on Nov 29, 2015

Keelung is the major cruise port in Taiwan, and Kaohsiung in the South a growing destination. Some 70 ships a year visit the island. The capital Taipei is one hour's drive away from Keelung, the metropolitan area is home to 8 million people

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Taiwan Cruise Tours

Where will the big buses take you ?
When you book your shore excursion, you'll travel by bus to:

Taipei (1 hour from the port) or
Northeast coast (45 minutes in each direction)

Full (6-8 hours) and half day trips (4 hours)

Often you'll see 40-50 buses lined up waiting for your arrival. See you there !
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Taipei

On a clear day you can see the mountains surrounding the city.

National Palace Museum and going up Taipei 101 will each take 90-120 minutes of your time ashore
Photo by stan 日日是好日
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Taipei City Highlights

  • National Palace Museum
  • Grand Hotel & Martyrs' Shrine
  • Chiang Kai-shek Memorial
  • Lungshan/Baoan/Confucius temple
  • Taiwan Handicraft Center
  • Taipei 101
National Palace Museum: expect Chinese tour groups. Artifacts from the former Imperial Palace in Beijing's Forbidden City.

Martyrs' Shrine and Chiang Kai-shek Memorial have changing of the guard drills on the hour.

Longshan temple always busy, so some buses take you to Bao-an temple.
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The Coast

Yehliu - Keelung - Jinguashi
Photo by KeroroTW
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Coast Highlights

  • Yehliu
  • Keelung
  • Jiufen
  • Pingxi
  • Bisha fish market
These are places shown by most cruise tours.

Usually with shopping for photos and souvenirs. Bring local cash for small purchases.

Pingxi for the Shifen waterfall and lighting sky lanterns
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Yehliu

Geopark with hoodoo rocks
Home of the Queens' Head and many rocks with fancy names on a 1.7 km peninsula rising out of the sea.

Similar rocks can be found alng the coast and in Keelung's Peace island park
Photo by trixiemanixie
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Jiufen

snacks and tea
Jiufen is an old gold mining village, now a touristy place to eat, drink tea and shop.

Jinguashi on the other side of Keelung mountain has its Gold Museum
Photo by arkiben
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Keelung

steps away from your ship
Keelung was named after the indigenous Ketagelan people

First established as Santissima Trinidad by the Spanish in 1626, taken over by the Dutch 1642-1668, expanded by the Japanese 1895-1945

Bombed in WW2 and 'modernised' in the 1960's, a few historical spots remain.
Photo by pang yu liu
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Walk around Keelung

  • visit the Miaokou fresh food 'night market' -- open 24 hours every day
  • walk around Peace island park, see the unique coast and hoodoo rocks
  • climb or drive up to the Guanyin statue, fort or "KEELUNG" sign to see your ship
  • ..
  • .. use my map to show you the way !
Copy this link to see an interactive Keelung Cruise Terminals map and walks

https://goo.gl/3rCWGB
Photo by CeShine
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Kaohsiung

Taiwan's biggest container port.

Cruise ships dock at Pier 8, near the city center and KRT metro lines

Tour buses drive to the city and lakes.

Buses to Tainan the former capital, or FoGuangShan buddhist monastery will take one hour each way from the port
Photo by ¡kuba!
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Kaohsiung highlights

  • British Consulate at Takow
  • Lotus lake
  • Love river
  • Cihou lighthouse
  • ..
  • .. use my map to show you the way !
Copy this link to see a Kaohsiung Cruise Terminal map and walks

It's my map based on your FAQ's

https://goo.gl/tX9aoH
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Hualien

for Taroko Gorge
After a one hour drive you'll see the various famous stops in the gorge - helmets mandatory.

Short walks. Expect to visit a few souvenir shops...
Photo by sanbeiji
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Taichung

for Sun Moon Lake
After a one hour drive from the industrial port you'll be at Yuchi village on the south shore of the reservoir at 752 meters elevation in the center of Taiwan.

You'll be visiting temples and touristic places around the lake, many erected during Chiang Kai-shek's time in Taiwan 1949-1975
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Tour Taiwan

http://about.me/christine.wu
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Special interests ? You can think about custom made tours at your own pace together with your friends on board.

Questions ? See my FB, G+ pages or email me:
keelung.christine@gmail.com

Taiwan will touch your heart !


Christine Wu

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