Lonely Planet Taiwan

Holidays in Taiwan

Taiwanese holidays are set according to either the Western calendar or the Chinese lunar calendar. Holidays in the lunar calendar fall at...

The following government websites offer travel advisories and information on current hot spots. Australian Department of Foreign Affair...

Although Taiwan ranks among the world’s most densely populated areas, opportunities for outdoor activities abound. About 40% of the land i...

Taiwan provides the full range of lodgings, from basic hostels to world-class hotels and resorts, and air-con is standard. Quality, how...

First, the good news: finding your way around Taipei is much easier today than it was 10 years ago. Now the bad: it can still be pretty ...

Prehistoric Taipei (Taibci) was wet. The mountains surrounding present-day Taipei were majestic then as now, but the basin in which a grea...

Taiwan had been in the imperial sights of the Japanese empire long before her colonisation in 1895. Though conventional wisdom holds that ...