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Old January 23rd, 2013, 06:21 PM posted to rec.travel.asia
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On 1/22/2013 3:10 PM, Alfred Molon wrote:
I'll be in Taiwan over Easter for two weeks with the family and still
need to plan the itinerary (just have some vague ideas right now). Has
anybody been there?


I've been there many times.

Some suggestions:

Take the MTR out to the northern end to Tanshui. Walk along the
waterfront. Lots of good restaurants out there. Buy some iron eggs which
they are famous for.

Go to Yanmingshan National Park. Look for the giant cows, but I've never
found them. There's a bus from Taipei that goes there if you don't have
a car.

Go over the mountains to Keelung and drive back to Taipei around the
northern coast (assuming you have a car).

The Palace Museum has a lot of the treasures that the Kuomintang took
with them when they left China.

The Shilin Night Market (on the MTR line).

Taipei Zoo, on the MTR line, go on a weekday because on the weekends it
is incredibly crowded.

Sun Yatsen memorial, Chiang Kai Shek memorial (even if you didn't like
him, it's interesting), 228 Peace Memorial Park.

Costco. No MTR, take the bus.

Can't help you south of Taipei.