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awesomemantheguy

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Nov 25, 2012 5:56 PM
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Itinerary for TAiwan

Hi

Im thinking about visiting the major cities and hotspring for Taiwan next week...
My family(group of 3+me)and I wish to go for some theme parks and museums but with a budget(for that two areas)of 5000NTD. Will that be enough?
Here is my current plan:

DAY 1:
6AM arrival into Taipei
Taipei->Tainan
Anping treehouse
Treehouse->Ntl museum of Taiwan literature
Museum->Confucious Temple -> Tainan park

DAY 2:
Tainan->Kaohsiung
Taiwan sugar museum
Foot massage
Tuntex sky tower
Foot massage

DAY 3:
EDA Theme Park

DAY 4:
Kaohsiung->Yunlin
Janfusan Fancy world

DAY 5:
Yunlin-> Taoyuan County
Window on China theme park
Hey Song Beverage Museum

DAY 6:
Taoyuan->Taipei
Taipei 101
Martyr's Shrine
Jiufen
Luzhou night market
Ximending

DAY 7:
Taipei->Taichung
Fengjia Night Market
Taichung-> SUn moon lake
Hot springs tour

DAY 8:
Sun Moon LAke->Chiayi
Chiayi Municipal Museum
CHiayi->Taipei

DAY 9:
Miniatures Museum of Taiwan
TAipei story house
Ntl palace museum
Long SHan temple
Taipei Zoo
Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall

DAY 10:
Beitou
Taipei Eye
Miramar PArk
Museum of JAde Art
0600 Proceed to TAoyuan
Return flight @ 9PM
DAY 11 arival into CHangi Airport

manchurianexile

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Nov 25, 2012 7:20 PM
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Tell me you've missed a zero off your budget!

If you can afford to to travel with, house and feed a family of 4 on a budget of 5K for 10 days you must be some sort of genius. I doubt I could survive on my own for 10 days on 5K. And that's be without going to theme parks (Or travelling around much).

awesomemantheguy

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Nov 25, 2012 7:53 PM
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I mean the 5K only for museums and theme park entrances

awesomemantheguy

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Nov 25, 2012 7:54 PM
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3

The rest my mum suggests about 70K NT(10000USD?)+5K for museums and theme parks(5KNTD=1000USD?)

manchurianexile

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Nov 25, 2012 8:49 PM
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5K NTD is about $170

I've no idea what theme park enterance cost (Not a theme park kinda guy) but I'd suggest that $170USD isn't going to get 4 of you into many of them.

awesomemantheguy

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Nov 25, 2012 9:02 PM
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5

Oh... well I will check on it:)

Kaminoge

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Nov 26, 2012 5:47 AM
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I can't think of anything that makes Taiwanese theme parks stand out from others around the world, but if you have kids, you probably don't have much say in the matter.

Your itinerary seems too ambitious on some of the days. For example, I doubt on Day 9 that you would be able to see all of those places (the National Palace Museum and Taipei Zoo each could take the better part of a day to cover). The same goes for Day 6 - either plan to spend most of the day in Jiufen, or skip it to enjoy the other sights in Taipei.

I'm not sure about your plan for Day 7. Although it is open for most of the day, Fengjia is a night market after all, which means it really doesn't really get into gear until after the sun goes down. What time are you intending to leave for Sun Moon Lake, and how do you plan on getting there? It might be better to do things in reverse - take a bus direct to Sun Moon Lake from Taipei, then go to Taichung the next day to visit Fengjia. Also, I'm not sure what the attraction of the Chiayi Municipal Museum (Day 8) holds for you. Chiayi is a pretty mundane city even by Taiwanese standards, and most travelers only use it as a base while going to and from Alishan. It might be more interesting to spend the night in Taichung - if you have kids, they might like the National Science Museum, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts has a good storybook area in the basement that young readers will enjoy, with plenty of English-language titles.

LongIslandBob

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Nov 26, 2012 3:09 PM
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North to south, to north, to halfway south etc. You can't be serious. You're april fooling us aren't you?

awesomemantheguy

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Nov 26, 2012 5:22 PM
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00... I will revise on the itinerary again:) Sry!
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