Travel Guide To Taipei

Taipei is the national capital of Taiwan, situated in the Northern part of the island. Taipei attracts visitors from all over the world for its colonial lanes that have left a mark of the Japanese architecture, contemporary buildings and busy streets. Some of its architectural highlights include the dominating Taipei 101, the 101-floor skyscraper rising 1,670 feet above the ground. It holds the title of the World’s tallest ‘green’ building. The city lies in the basin between the Central Mountains and Yangming Mountains and is the fourth largest administrative area of Taiwan. Taipei has something unique to offer for everyone. You wouldn’t have to think twice about what to do in Taipei as the place is filled with activities for everybody.

Visit Taipei for the world’s largest and finest collection of Chinese art, calligraphy, bronzes, statuary, ceramics, lacquerware, and religious objects at the National Palace Museum.

Take a walk through the Dihua Street, formerly known as the Centre Street, famous for its sprightly Lunar New Year sundry market, Chinese medicine shops, and fabric market.

Witness the exquisite structure of Bao’an Temple loaded with traditional decorative arts and the annual folk arts festival. The temple has been awarded the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Award for the preservation of its rites and festivities and for its revival.

Learn the importance of each religion at the Museum of World Religions built to strive for harmony showing the communality of all religions. The museum was built by a Buddhist order but doesn’t aim at promoting just Buddhism. It includes detailed-scale models of some important religious sites like Islam’s Dome of the Rock, Christianity’s Chartres Cathedral, and Sikhism’s Golden Temple.

You feel like a miniature once you enter the grandiose of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. The sobering feeling it gives, believe it or not, has lured travelers time and again to its massive courtyard. The monument’s blue-roofed hall is a perfect example of a neoclassical style of architecture. It is dedicated to authoritarian leader Chiang Kai-shek.