This is my list of top travel adventures in Taiwan. I’ve hot linked the places that I’ve already been to and written about. If the activity is in italics, it means I’ve been there, but I haven’t written about it yet. Enjoy!

Taipei Adventures – In and Around Taipei

• Taipei 101
• Shilin Night Market
• Snake Alley
• The Grand Hotel
• Beitou Hot Springs
• Yangmingshan Hot Springs
• Visit the calla lily farms on Yangmingshan during the calla lily flower festival
• The National Palace Museum
• Dihua Street – Traditional medicine market street
• Shalun Beach
• Maokung Tea Plantation
• Hike Huang Di Dian – The Emperor’s Throne
• Check out the Taipei Toy Festival in July
• Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall
• Danshui and the Fisherman’s Wharf
• Taipei Fine Arts Museum
• Longshan Temple
• Nangang Bottle Cap Factory and photograph the awesome graffiti art (Nangang MRT exit 2)
• Ride the Ferris wheel at Miramar Entertainment Park
• Jade Market
• Flower Market
• Lin Family Gardens
• Shrimp fishing
• Visit the Taiwan Beer Factory
• Raohe St. Night Market, Taipei (Taipei’s first night market ever!)
• Ximending
• Check out these romantics spots for lovers in Taipei

 Taipei Theme Restaurants and Popular Restaurants

• Hello Kitty Restaurant
• Barbie Cafe
• Modern Toilet Bowl Restaurant
• Doctors and Nurses Restaurant
• Din Tai Fung

Northern Taiwan

• Baishawan Beach
• Yehliu Geopark
• Wulai Aboriginal Village and Hot Springs
• Visit Jiufen, an old mining town that has a famously photogenic night market. The town in the Academy Award winning animation Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli was based on Jiufen
  
• Jinshan – Taiwan’s famous gold mining town
• Visit Peruse JuMing Museum, a massive art museum in JinShan
• Yingge Pottery Town
• Visit Shei-Pa National Park
• Lavender Garden
• Hike Xueshan (Snow Mountain)

Central Cross-Island Highway

• Drive the Central Cross-Island Highway
• CingJing
• Sun Moon Lake
• Taroko Gorge National Park
• Visit the Sea of Clouds

East Coast Highway

• Keelung Harbor
• Keelung Ghost Festival
• Visit Heping & the Fairy Temple
• Visit Yilan
• Drive along Taiwan’s East Coast Highway by motorcycle
• Shingang Harbor Fish Market in Chenggong
• Cingshui Cliffs
• Hualien City
• The Great East Rift Valley
• Visit Taitung
• Visit Water Running Up in Dulan, where water actually runs uphill
• Go dolphin watching

Southern Cross Island Highway

• Baolai Hot Springs
• Dongpu Hot Springs
• Yushan National Park (Jade Mountain)
• MeiShan

Chiayi

Tainan

Taichung

• Fung Ja Night Market
• Rainbow Village
• Changhua
• Lukang
• Xitou’s Bamboo Forest (the honeymoon spot of Taiwan)

Kaohsiung

• Kaoshiung
• Dream Mall
• Ride the Hello Kitty Ferris Wheel 
• Love River
  Lotus Pond
• Cijin Island
• Foguangshan Temple

Kenting

• Kenting
• Kenting Beach
• Taiwan’s National Museum of Marine Biology
• Tour around Kenting peninsula
• See the sun set at Guanshanyan
• Visit Maobitou Scenic Area
• Jialeshuei Beach
• Shjhongsi Hot Springs near Checheng

Taiwan’s Islands

• Green Island
• Take a dip in Taiwan’s only salt water hot spring on Green Island, one of just a few salt water springs in the entire world!
• Orchid Island
• Kinmen
• Matsu
• Visit the Penghu Archipelago and its most famous islands
• Jibei Island, Penghu
• Chimei Island, Penghu
• See Taiwan’s famous Double Heart Weir
• Wangan Island, Penghu
• Bikini Island, Penghu
• Squid fishing
• Penghu’s Basalt Rock Formations and Tungpan National Scenic Area

Just for fun:

• Learn how to ride a scooter
• Try Chinese scraping, a Chinese medicinal practice of releasing toxins from the body.
• Try Chinese cupping, a Chinese medicinal practice used to bring blood flow to the skin and muscles of your body.
• Get featured in a Taiwanese magazine
• Attend a Taiwanese wedding
• Get a tattoo in Taipei
• Catch a Formosa Crew show – Taiwan’s #1 hip hop dance crew
• Learn Chinese
• Participate in Taiwan’s Gay Pride Parade – Asia’s largest LGBT parade
• Learn about Taiwan’s betel nut beauties
• Learn about Ghost Month in Taiwan
• Visit a Taiwanese graveyard
• Learn about Taiwanese folk religion
• Write a guide to eating out at Taiwan’s night markets
• Eat pig’s blood cake
• Do tai-chi in the park
• Pray at a local temple
• Go to a Taiwanese baseball game
• Try stinky tofu
• Release a sky lantern
• Visit Suao Cold Springs
• Try coffin bread
• Taiwanese breakfast
• Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice
• Hike Caoling Historic Trail in Dali
• Ride the train up Alishan Mountain