The core of Lukang, located just off Taiwan’s central-west coast, is perhaps Taiwan’s best imperial-days living museum, a repository of heritage architecture even more concentrated than that found in the acclaimed core of Tainan City to the south.
Local young folk in Tainan revel in giving new life, personality, and mission to the humbler old architectural jewels they’ve grown up with, creating a treasure map of small eateries, tea rooms, cafés, boutique hotels, and other cultural-creative enterprises for travelers to culture-spelunk.
Tainan City, born four centuries ago, is Taiwan’s most illustrious repository of important heritage sites. Here is a quartet of attractions that have been born within the past two decades.
There are many smaller tourist attractions in Taoyuan City’s Daxi and Logntan districts making this part of Taiwan great for day trips from Taipei.
Once you have done all the riverside bikeways in Taipei, head further south and ride along the Dahan, from Yingge to Daxi!
From the coast to the high mountains Hsinchu County in northwest Taiwan has a lot of scenic and cultural attraction to offer.
When bicycling in Taiwan there is help along the way, in many places, in form of the “bike supply stations.”
The port town of Tamsui is less than an hour from central Taipei taking the metro. This is a great day-tour destination, rich in history and scenic river views.
Find out where energetic entrepreneurs, mostly younger in age, are breathing new life into vintage buildings and hoary tight-knit Tainan communities.
In Tainan, the small cultural-creative hotels, inns, hostels, and homestays found snuggled away within its close-knit community grids of side lanes and alleys do double-duty as time-travel devices.
