I intend to go Taiwan in mid Oct .. going alone .. haven been to Taiwan before ..

Should I go for a tour package? Or to have it free and easy? I can speak Chinese fluently so language is not a problem for me.

Free and easy is nice as Taiwan has excellent public transportation. All very competitive too.
No need to go on tour package unless you wanted to those go along with aunty/uncle/ah mas that sit in bus.

Taiwan now has the super high speed train. I find it very easy to travel from one city to another.
http://www.thsrc.com.tw/en/

How's the condition in Taiwan now?My trip there will be in Nov this year..so sad Ali-shan is badly affected...hope will be able to clear/rebuild the road soon...

South side is bad (Tainan, Kaoshiung, TaiTung). Roads and bridges are damaged.

Central (TaiChung), SunMoonLake and North side (Taipei) and East (HuaLien) are ok, no damage.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Aug 27 2009, 04:59 AM

Alisan at least need 1-2 year just able to recover back.

This post has been edited by UltraConductor_41: Aug 30 2009, 02:31 PM

hehe i managed to book for next yr march rm250 onli...heheh

including return ticket??Air Asia?

im going taipei this dec and planned to visit BeiTou (北投）for hot spring. anyone here been there b4? i planned to stay overnite there budget NTD3000. any recommendation?

thsr tickets price will make you shit brix. and some places like alishan, I don't think u can reach via public transport.

which areas are affected by the hurricane?
I was thinking of tai zhong -> sunmoonlake (nantou) -> hualian.
kaoshiung and tainan are no-go right?

taizhong, sunmoonlake no affected. But wondering, y u don change taizhong to taipei...

Confirm Taipei, YiLan, TaiChung and SunMoonLake (Nantou County) not damaged during the last typhoon.
Only southern part like Tainan (minimal), Kaoshiung southern (some), and Taitung (bad).

Amazingly Hualien City (eastern side) is also ok.

Thank goodness that Puli is also ok (we don't want any harm to those pretty ladies here)

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Sep 4 2009, 07:05 AM

its only ticket...not yet book hotel...heheh

I'll be visiting taipei too. Just that gf want to go taizhong to see friends.

Just back from a 7D6N trip to Taiwan last night. Had great time there... Anyone heard of Ming Shan Hotel - 溪頭明山大飯店? I love it there!!! Wanna go there again in future to relax.

wao..is cheap..what is the date?i go through Airasia website..but cant find the cheaper price to Taipei..plan to visit Taiwan next year,..

if u go taizhong, maybe u could try out 清境農場~~many good feedback for that place~
i will be travel this place maybe next week~ cos i heard got new hurricane coming again @@

清境農場 in TaiChung ? Could seem to find it when I was there.
Is that outside the city?

from the website, it seems to be at nantou.
Jen-Ai Town of Nan-Tou County.
if im not mistalen, nantou is to the right of taizhong

This post has been edited by slash: Sep 4 2009, 09:19 PM

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This post has been edited by mattafare: Sep 4 2009, 11:10 PM