Elephant Mountain (Xiangshan)
Xiangshan Tunnel, Sanli, Xinyi District, 110049, Taiwan
Elephant Mountain is Taipei's most accessible urban hike and the best place to photograph Taipei 101 — a short, steep trail on the eastern edge of the Xinyi District that climbs through subtropical forest to a series of rock outcrops providing panoramic views of the city skyline with Taipei 101 as the centrepiece.
Maokong Gondola & Tea Plantations
Wenshan District, Taiwan
Maokong is Taipei's tea mountain — a hillside of tea plantations, temple gardens, and traditional teahouses south of the city that is accessible by a 4-kilometre gondola ride from Taipei Zoo station, providing aerial views of the city, the zoo, and the forested mountains before depositing you at the top of a hill where Tieguanyin oolong tea has been grown since the late 19th century.
Taipei 101
No. 7, Section 5, Xinyi Road, Xinyi District, Taipei
Taipei 101 was the tallest building in the world from its completion in 2004 until the Burj Khalifa surpassed it in 2010 — a 508-metre tower of blue-green glass designed by C.
Tamsui (Danshui) Old Street & Fort San Domingo
Zhongzheng Rd, Qingwen Village, Tamsui District, 251018, Taiwan
Tamsui is the riverside town at the end of the MRT Red Line — a 40-minute ride from central Taipei that takes you to a former port town where Fort San Domingo (a 17th-century Spanish and later Dutch fort), a Japanese-era customs house, and the waterfront old street (lined with stalls selling iron eggs, fish crackers, and ā-gěi — a fried tofu pouch stuffed with glass noodles) provide a half-day excursion that covers 400 years of Taiwanese history.
Yangmingshan National Park
No. 1-20 Zhuzihu Rd, Hutian, Beitou District, 112092, Taiwan
Yangmingshan is Taipei's backyard volcano — a national park of dormant volcanic peaks, hot springs, sulphur fumaroles, and subtropical forest on the mountains north of the city that provides the most dramatic natural landscape accessible from any Asian capital.
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