General Info

How to travel within Taiwan

You’ll most likely fly to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, from which you can take the purple local train / subway Airport Line (Express) (only takes about 30min) to get to central Taipei. We arrived late, so took an uber to our AirBnB, but took the Airport Line back to the airport at the end of our trip. Just like other countries, Taiwan hast it’s own little payment card for public transport in Taipei, the Easy Card. It also works in convenience stores and busses country wide.

We did not rent a car because public transport is super easy to use. It’s also super easy to navigate in Taiwan because you can simply use Google Maps to get the general idea and train and bus numbers. To book High Speed Rail tickets, you can either go to the train station, HSR desk for the fast train and or ticket machines, they are also in English.

Buy the Easy Card for 100 (currently = 2,74€) to 150 TWD ( Taiwanese $) at any Seven-11 or Family Mart, of which you’ll find more than you could possibly need in Taiwan. Here you can buy everything from water, food, drinks (incl. very interesting alcoholic cocktails, which I’ll talk more about later).

Useful apps for Taiwan

Our 2.5-week itinerary

We wanted to see west and east coast, so we went around the whole island once: We spent 3 nights in Taipei, 2 nights in Sun Moon Lake, 3 nights in Tainan, 2 nights in Taitung, 2 nights in Hualien, 2 nights in Wulai and 2 nights in Taipei at the end. We’d do it again like this.
What we missed: Next time we will visit Alishan National Recreation Area, but this wasn’t possible due to the Typhoon that was over Taiwan while we were there.

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