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While it’s been a few years since I hiked to Teapot Mountain in Taiwan, I decided to finally write about it.  Teapot Mountain is the perfect day trip from Taipei if you want to get outside without going too far.

If you want to hike in Taipei, try Elephant Mountain or Fairy Footprint.  But, back to Teapot Mountain.  This is a moderate to strenuous hike in Jinguashi, about an hour from Taipei.

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There are a few hikes in Taipei that offer great views of Taipei 101 and the city below.  They are easy and perfect to watch the sunset before heading over to one of the night markets. 

The Elephant Mountain hike and Fairy Footprint Hike are two of those.  Elephant Mountain is one of the most popular hikes in Taipei while Fairy Footprint recieves a lot less foot traffic.  Both are worth doing and a great way to end a day around the city.

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Taipei is in the perfect location.  It’s centrally located in Northern Taiwan making it super easy to base yourself there to take day trips from Taipei to the surrounding cities and towns.  Whether you want to hike, visit a night market, wander through old streets, or all three, there are tons of easy day trips from Taipei.

You can even do all three in one day if that’s all you have, it’s just deciding which that is the hard part.  If you’ve only got 5 days in Taiwan, this can help you narrow down what to do with your limited time.

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While I may have had an entire month in Taiwan and almost three weeks in Taipei, I met a lot of people that only had one to four days there.  I met a few people that were in Taipei on long layovers and had two of those myself.  If you have more time and want to see a lot more of Taiwan, here is a great three-week itinerary and if you’re even shorter on time, this ten-day Taiwan adventure itinerary is perfect.

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Yes, I hear you.  It’s been a year and a half since you went to Taiwan!  What’s with all the posts now?  Well, I’ve finally sat down to try and get some more helpful things about Taiwan out to you, like this Taiwan night market guide.  I’ve wanted to and now I finally am.  Keep an eye out for similar things on other places from who knows how long ago.

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It’s no secret that I love Taiwan, or that I didn’t love it at all the first two weeks I was there.  I spent a month in Taiwan making my way around the little island, spending most of my time in Taipei.  I ended up going back between Japan and the Philippines and on my way home, which was awesome since I was there long enough to actually spend time in the city.  It may have been a rough start, but I ended up loving it and it’s pretty close to the top of the list of places I’d love to go back to, here’s why.

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I’ve mentioned before both that I love Taiwan, but I really didn’t at all for a while either.  I shared what I love about Taiwan, now, since I like to keep things real here, I’m going to share what I didn’t love as much.

I would also like to note that these are pretty much all personal things that I didn’t like or found annoying, and some are just silly little things that aren’t actually bad but more funny.  It was literally nothing about Taiwan itself.  I actually love Taiwan and these are all just part of the experience.  Taiwan is one place I’m actually dying to go back to.

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Taiwan has a lot to offer, like, a lot.  It has awesome cities, beautiful beaches, luscious jungle, marble gorges, and rolling hills.  And that doesn’t even touch on the food.  Ohh the food.  Enough of this, lets get to the good stuff.

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The Pingxi Lantern Festival is one of the coolest ways to celebrate Chinese New Year in Taipei if not all of Taiwan.  I don’t know what goes on in the rest of Taiwan, so that’s why I’m so confident in that statement.  If you know of something else that’s super awesome, let me know!  It just so happened that I booked my five weeks in Taiwan to coincide with the Pingxi Lantern Festival.  I didn’t even know it existed when I was planning my trip until shortly before I got to Taiwan.

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I wasn’t sure about Taipei when I first arrived, but that’s because I couldn’t do anything for myself.  Almost as soon as I got back to my hostel a few days later, that changed very quickly.  The people I met definitely helped, but there is plenty more to love about Taipei.

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I don’t have a lot to say about this, I just wanted to share some pictures from Taipei that don’t really belong anywhere else.  Like usual, I wandered around, drank coffee, took pictures of lanterns, and tried snake blood.  Oh yeah, I drank snake blood one night.

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