Same hot meaning you can on cycle during Morning than late Evening nia.. Mid day.. die liao.. I also kenot stand KL mid day cycling..I only cycle in the Mornint or late Evening.

The best place to cycling Taroko Gorge.. but not summer for sure.. As u said.. End of Spring, Autumn or even their mild winter also can but avoid summer.. Not forgetting summer rain & typhoon

Cool.. Just like early Dec weather liao.. ~ 18C-23C ..Genting temperature. but sometime can be cold also..dropping below 15C

Taiwan is a budget backpacking heaven dy haha.. Food pricing & accomodations almost similar to KL. Well not all their souvenirs, electronics & etc more expensive haha.

So if you're not from KL, just treadt that you visit KL can already.. That's yur cost

For number of days relly depending on you.

For me 5D4N enable you 1 day Yehliu/Keelong & Jiufen, 2 days in Taipei & 1 day in Hualian/Taroko Gorge.

For other places such as Kaoshiung, Tainan, Alisan, You need to budget additional each xtra days to those areas

No min can even be 4D3N. Only cover Taipei & probably Yehliu & Juifen... If you just 100% just concentrate on Taipei, 3D2N also ccan dy.. Taipei is good for 2 full days

No need too long...The more days will be very tiring and also $$$..by the 5th days you will be longing to be back to KL liao haha

Just buy min. Don't buy Insirance, luggage, Food, Seats & etc..

Once you buy those, it will not be refundeable except the airport tax portion.

You will not know what will happen mths later.. you might cancel that flight & burn all you paid for. Buy only a week or two b4 you fly

Yes. Buy online for sure cheaper than you check-in & pay. There is also huge price diff between Online purchase & buy from AA office/ AA sales agents

Sure..what, that where Asia tactic..going mean & lean wth less staff.. I setup customer service counter, renting shops, incurring utilities..surely they wanted to charge more to cover the cost rather than the sunken IT cost of having the online sales ..common sense

Do not put high hope on Taiwanese food

Check the eg & link on pg 1 but too bad the only ref via wawasan no longer there & you really need to goto nearest Money changer & do comparison similar to what on pg1

Hmnnn inflation sobad? In 2009 ~nt$50 nia wor

So many thing to eat but taste so-so only ..read more on pg1

Go 1st page 1st

Wah your day 2 & day 3 so kheng wan... Do you know Sun moon Lake is so far away from Taipei & so do Taroko Gorge?

Bothe required day trip on diff days.

For a week, there..yes.. Do a loop round for eg.. From Taipei to Huelian (Taroko) - 1 Nite there & nxt day move to Sun Moon Lake by crossing the mid-mountain range & stop by at Hehuan shan & from there to Sun Moon Lake for another nite b4 bck to Taipei.

I di goto that area due to time constrain. Just Hualien- Taipei- Keelong- Jiufen & Yehliu only.

Check BNM rate & check closet Money changer.. do some simple calculation comparing to TW money changer i the airport.. If diff not much, you can change here, otherwise, change to US$ 1st & thereafter NT$... Refer to pg for eg & link calculation... The only problem is right now ..no realtime money changer rate to compare. Wawasan in MV already closed

Yeah me also regretting changing my last NT$ to USD in one of taipei bank wasted almost 1 hr there due to red tapes.. If in airport must faster...regret just bcos wanna save abit on the NT$30 airport surcharge..

The new Shilin food market now goes underground & much cleaner than years ago ..well done

Yeah, The cityscape of Taipei is so-so only. Wth only Taipei 101 and many highrises ~ 10-30 storeys high, it's abit odd & not evenly spread.. KL skyscape much better looking than many cities in Asia and one of the top 19 in the world for sure