Day 1

(Sat.)

Arrival Taipei
Private transfer from airport to hotel. Free time at leisure.

*Transport by private car.

Option A:
Evergreen Taipei 4*

Option B:

Fullon Shengkeng 4*

Day 2

(Sun.)

Taipei
Use Metro Day pass. Start full day Taipei City Tour with guide.
Visit Longshan temple (the oldest temple in Taipei), Ching Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei 101 and observatory (the tallest building in Asia and second tallest building in the world), and the National Palace Museum (the largest museum for Chinese treasure collection), night market in the evening.

*Transport by metro, taxi, and public bus. Entrance fees are included.

Day 3

(Mon.)

Taipei
Meet your guide at hotel lobby. Have one day Yangmingshan national Park tour.
Yangmingshan National Park,a mountainous area where visitors can find charming waterfalls, volcanic craters, picturesque lakes, terraced rice paddies, and steaming hot spring. The profusion of cherry and azalea blossoms in the spring, and cool, fresh mountain air in the summer are added attractions. You will be visiting Hsiaoyukeng, Chingtienkang (soft trekking about 1~2 hours) and Lengshuikeng today.
*Hsiaoyukeng is at an elevation of 800 meters and contains a host of volcanically-created fumaroles, sulfur crystals, hot springs, and landslides. Sulfur vents noisily spew forth gases, and hot springs discharge endless streams of boiling water. The bright yellow sulfur crystals that can be seen here are exceptionally lovely.
*Chingtienkang is a terrace formed by lava flowing to the north from Mt. Chukao. This flat area is today an undulating grassland several kilometers across surrounded on all sides by mountain peaks.
*Lengshuikeng (Cold Water Pit) contains Taiwan's sole bed of precipitated sulfur. Sulfurous fumes vented in the bed of this marshy lake turn the water murky. After gradually precipitating, the sulfur forms whitish-yellow or pale gray layers in the lake bed. Popularly known as Milk Lake, the lake is only approximately 40°C in temperature, and not the 90°C or more found in some hot springs.

*Transport by taxi and bus (inside National Park).

Day 4

(Tue.)

Taipei / Taroko Gorge
Take Taroko Express, a tilting train named after the 12-mile long Taroko Gorge where the indigenous Truku tribe resides.
Running on the existing narrow gauge tracks, which is about 3 feet and 6 inches wide that is about 1,067mm with a maximum speed of 95 miles per hour, The Taroko Express has reduced the travel time between Taipei and Hualien from 3 to 2 hours.
English speaking assistant will company you to Taipei train station by taxi. Take Puyuma/Taroko Express on your own. Arrive Taroko around noon.
Have Taroko Gorge tour with local English speaking driver guide for the whole afternoon.

Visit Tunnel of Nine Turns, Swallow Grotto, and Eternal Spring Shrine with local English speaking driver guide.
Overnight inside Taroko National Park.

*Transport by taxi, train, private car.

Leader village 3*
or similar

www.leaderhotel.com

Day 5

(Wed.)

Taroko
Free on your own at Taroko Gorge.

Strongly recommend to have soft tracking in Taroko Gorge National Park. 

Day 6

(Thu.)

Taroko/Kenting
Take hotel shuttle car to Haulien Train station and take train to New Zuoying Station (in Kaohsiung). About 5.5 hours on the train.
Then take Kenting express from Zuoying High speed railway Station. About 2 hours to Kenting.
Overnight at Chateau 

*transport by train and bus. 

Chateau Hotel
or similar

http://www.ktchateau.com.tw/en/

Day 7

(Fri.)

Kenting
Meet your guide at hotel lobby. Have one day Kenting National Park tour.
Visit Kenting Forest Recreation Area (150 min.), Sheding Nature Park (100 min.), Eluanbi Park (40 min.), and Lungpan grass land (20min.)
*The Kenting Forest Recreation Area is a tropical botanical garden. It is also called the Kenting botanical garden or Kenting Park because of its densely wooded forest and its natural beauty.
*Sheding Nature Park, with a total of 128.7 hectare wide, is right beside the Kenting Forest Recreation Area. Trees inside the park that grow on reefs are naturally miniature-trees-and-rockery-shaped under the strong blow of northeasterly monsoon climate. One cannot but admire the extremely outstanding of the great nature.
*Eluanbi Park, a fiord located at the most southern part of Taiwan Island, is famous for its lighthouse. The Kuroshio Current causes the powerful ocean current of this area.  Coral reef rocks stand in great number beneath the lighthouse.  It is a park with dense forest and various species of wild lives could be seen here.
*Eluanbi Lighthouse, in 1882, for the sake of cursing safety, the government employed a British technician to build a lighthouse at Eluanbi. The building-up process was under constant invasion by local aborigines; therefore, the lighthouse was armed with cannon and embrasure.  Moreover, they trenched the edges of the lighthouse and a garrison was stationed in it. The Eluanbi Lighthouse is one of the armed lighthouses in the world.
*Lungpan Grass land & Hanging cliff: Lungpan is a huge area of grassland that stretches to the horizon. On its east side is the Pacific Ocean. This area is made of coral reef cliff, and there are limestone caves underneath the red topsoil. It’s better to visit this place before dawn or at dusk because it’s the best time for you to enjoy the sunrise, the sunset, the afterglow and the starry night sky.

*Transport by private car

Day 8

(Sat.)

Kenting/Chiayi
Free on your own in the morning.
After lunch, take Kenting Expree (Coach) to Zuoying high speed railway station. (2 hours)
Take high speed rail to Chiayi (about 40 mins), the foot of Alishan.
Take taxi on your own to Hotel. (10 mins)

*Transport by car, train, and taxi. 

Day 9

(Sun.)

Chiayi/Alishan
Meet your driver guide at hotel lobby.
Head to Alishan by car (about 3.5 hours).
Arrive Alishan around noon.
Have soft trekking in famous Alishan Giant Tree area. These trees are thousands years old.

*Transport by private car or train. 

Day 10

(Mon.)

Alishan/Sun Moon Lake
In the early morning, catch the famous Alishan sunrise train to enjoy sunrise.
After breakfast, have soft trekking in Alishan. 
14:00 After lunch, head to Sun Moon Lake. Stop at Tatachia (in Yushan National Park) for 30 mins on the way to Sun Moon Lake.
18:00 Arrive Sun Moon Lake.

*Transport by train and private car.

Day 11

(Tue.)

Sun Moon Lake/Taipei
Take a lake cruise to enjoy the beauty of Sun Moon Lake. Visit Wen Wu Temple.
After lunch, take coach to Taipei. It will take about 4 hours to Taipei. Transfer to hotel in Taipei with guide.

*Transport by private car.

Option A:
Evergreen Taipei 4*
 
Option B:

Fullon Shengkeng 4*

Day 12

(Wed.)

Taipei
Today is free and easy for clients to explore Taipei the way they like it.

Overnight in Taipei.

Day 13

(Thu.)

Taipei／Departure
Enjoy a leisurely breakfast at the hotel (or the hotel will prepare a breakfast box for the early departure clients). The private driver (no guide) will meet the clients at the hotel lobby at the time TBA and transfer to Taoyuan Airport. Wave goodbye to Taiwan.

Tour ends!