TAIWAN: TAIPEI – ALISHAN CITY AND MOUNTAIN FORESTS

Guests have breakfast and complete hotel check-out procedures.
The vehicle takes the group to Taipei, where guests visit:
Specialty shop – Staff guide guests in making Taiwanese specialty cakes, and guests are free to look around and buy various Taiwanese-flavored cakes as gifts for relatives.
Shifen Old Street – A small village with an ancient atmosphere all around, where wishes come true. Here, you cannot miss the traditional sky lantern releasing activity. Each lantern rises carrying good wishes and dreams (4 guests per lantern).

You have breakfast and check out of the hotel.
The car takes the group to Nantou, on the way you visit:
Lingzhi shop: You learn about Taiwan's specialty lingzhi mushrooms – an indispensable gift for relatives and friends.
Free time to visit and shop at the Pixiu shop.
Boating on Sun Moon Lake – Taiwan's largest freshwater lake. Sun Moon Lake has such a poetic name because of the lake's shape: if you stand in the middle of the lake, looking west you will see the lake shaped like a crescent moon, while looking east, the lake is round like the sun. Each passing season, the scenery around Sun Moon Lake takes on a completely different beauty that will surely impress you.

(You visit and take photos outside)

You have breakfast and check out of the hotel.
The car takes the group to Alishan to explore:
Alishan National Park Recreation Area – a mountain range in southern Taiwan, Alishan captivates with majestic natural scenery, river valleys, lush green forests, seas of clouds drifting at eye level, and trains running through the forest. (Depending on weather conditions)

You have breakfast and check out of the hotel.
The car takes the group to Kaohsiung – Taiwan's second largest city to visit:
Fo Guang Shan – A work of rare beauty in Taiwan, especially the Fo Guang Shan Buddha statue recognized by Guinness World Records as the tallest bronze Buddha statue in the world (108 meters). The massive complex here also has more than 20 solemn halls, thousands of gilded statues and a heritage collection of more than 100,000 copies of the Heart Sutra written by Buddhists (the new Fo Guang Shan area is closed every Tuesday, depending on actual conditions the group will visit either the new or old area).

You have breakfast and check out of the hotel.
The car takes the group to visit:
Formosa Boulevard Station – With impressive, eye-catching architecture and a meaningful message, this place has been voted one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world, using Domelight technology composed of 4,500 glass panels creating a magnificent work of art (The company offers a one-stop train experience).