Taipei City Tour with National Palace Museum Ticket

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Duration:4 hours (approx.)
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

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If you are planning your first trip to Taipei, or being tied up with a busy schedule and never had an opportunity to travel around the city during your business trip in Taipei, this half-day tour to Taipei is your best choice to visit the city's must-see landmarks, including Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Presidential Office Building, the Grand Hotel Taipei, Martyrs’ Shrine and National Palace Museum.

Through this guided tour, you will have a glimpse on the history and the background of the attractions that you visit within a half-day. After then, you still have extra time for yourself, that you can explore the city on your own or proceed on your own schedule.

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1. Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall
The first stop on your Taipei half-day tour is Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, an impressive monument in memory of the late president of the Republic of China, Chang Kai-shek. To reach the hall, you need to climb up 89 steps, which represent Chang Kai-Shek’s age when he died. Here the changing of the guard ceremony takes place every hour on the hour from 09:00 in the main hall. In addition to the majestic main hall of the memorial, the exquisite Chinese garden around the building and the vast plaza are also worth taking a look. If you come here in the early morning, you can see some people doing Qigong there.
2. Presidential Office Building
On the way to the Grand Hotel Taipei, your tour guide will provide you with a brief introduction when you pass by the Presidential Office Building—a neo-Renaissance building built in 1910s during Japanese colonization, previously served as the office of the Governor-General of Taiwan. Nowadays, the building operates as the seat of political power in Taiwan. With a long history and an iconic facade, it is also a symbolic landmark in Taipei City.
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The next stop of your tour is the Grand Hotel Taipei, a historic hotel built in the 1950s, where the government hosted banquets for many foreign dignitaries who visited Taipei. The hotel features numerous art and opulent decors, including the ornate wall panels, paintings, carvings, etc, providing luxurious accommodation and dining experiences to the guests. Here your tour guide will help you snap a group photo against the majestic building of this extravagant hotel, capturing your bright smiling faces.
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After the photo stop, your tour continues with a visit to the Martyrs’ Shrine, also known as the National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine. The shrine was built in the 1969, dedicated to the fallen soldiers in civil wars and armed conflicts, to honor their brave spirit. Every year on Youth Day and Armed Forces Day, the president of Taiwan leads the civil and military officials to pay floral tribute to the martyrs. The changing of the guard ceremony is performed hourly from 09:00 to 17:00 every day, which attracts large numbers of tourists from overseas.
5. National Palace Museum
The last stop on your tour is the world-famous National Palace Museum, which is also one of the world’s largest museums. With a collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of ancient Chinese artifacts and artworks, the museum showcases 8,000 years of Chinese art history spanning multiple dynasties. Two of the most famous artworks on display are “the Jadeite Cabbage” and “the Meat-Shaped Stone”, which are the must-sees in National Palace Museum.

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Posted By : Tbasis_F
A great tour. If you have a day to kill, this is the perfect option. Very convenient and full of things to see. The guide was nice and knowledgeable. There were many things that I didn't know existed in the city. Highly recommend.
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Posted On : 2024-04-01 19:14:05

Posted By : Alan_H
Danny the Tour Guide made this tour a great choice for my limited time in Taipei. His English was by far the BEST I've had on my current 9 country/11 city/28 day adventure through India and SE Asia. This is SO important to me in order to be able to truly understand all that the tour guide is saying about each of the sites.
Danny had a jam packed half day, kept us on track, and was a true pleasure to have lead it for the ones lucky enough to join him for the day.
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Posted On : 2024-03-24 09:44:59

Posted By : 862eileenz
My husband and I visited Taipei in March and we had a half day tour. Sherry was our guide and she was great. She tailored the tour to our schedule. We wanted to stay in the national palace museum longer so she moved it to be the last site which we are visiting, even though it meant more driving back and forth. She was knowledgeable and warm. We learned about history, culture and even recommendations for some of the food places. She didn’t take us shopping or try to push for product placement. We highly recommend the service.
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Posted On : 2024-03-21 02:44:10

Posted By : Trevor_C
The Grand hotel was Beautiful. We also enjoyed the national museum. Unfortunately our guide did not know much about history so a lot of the artifacts were not well covered. We should have just bought the audio tour.
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Posted On : 2024-03-12 08:01:38

Posted By : diane_f
Her guy was absolutely super. He was accommodating to the older couples and his English in Japanese were outstanding. He had extensive knowledge and answered all of my crazy questions.

Would definitely do it again.
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Posted On : 2024-02-15 20:17:36

Posted By : CyrusNeil_Z
This was a great tour. My tour guide was knowledgeable and courteous. Highly recommended. The tour guide was able to speak Chinese dialects, Japanese, and English extensively. He was impressive.
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Posted On : 2024-01-06 00:45:21

Posted By : William_N
The guide was fantastic - he presented and breezed through a lot of information, revealing a deep knowledge of the material, and possessed a considerable amount of depth on the topics. He also knew how to maximize time and efficiency in a relatively short amount of time. Had I attempted to a similar itinerary, the schedule would've easily stretched to an entire day and failed to include all of the visits. The guide and the tour bus access enabled the entirety of the agenda. The only criticism would be the briefness of the visit to the National Palace Museum (more time to visit and purchase items in the gift shop would've been nice - at least a guide book/pictorial of items not seen during the visit). But I re-visited the Museum and purchased these later. All in all, this tour was great. I highly recommend it.
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Posted On : 2023-12-10 14:55:26

Posted By : Sally_B
The guide makes the tour, right? And Danny Boy was the BEST. While getting to see the original architectural highlights of Taiwan, Danny Boy gave us knowledge and pearls of Taiwanese culture, old and new, while making us laugh and keeping us entertained. I'm so thankful we chose to do this tour rather than sleeping in. Would recommend to anyone.
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Posted On : 2023-11-28 21:01:28

Posted By : Kim_P
Christina was our tour guide and she was very nice and helpful. However, this was a very rushed experience. It's good as an overview, but not enough time to savor key sites such as the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall - would have been nice to spend more than 15 mins there.

We got to see the changing of the guards at the Martyrs' Shrine which was a highlight.

Again, fine for a very quick overview if you just want to rush through some sites, but not great if you want to savor experience.
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Posted On : 2023-11-26 19:28:52

Posted By : Mathew_A
We had a great time. Our tour guide Christina was great. She was very accommodating and knowledgeable. Wish the tour was longer but it was last minute booking and this was the only tour left when we booked. It was worth it.
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Posted On : 2023-11-26 16:59:20