2015 Deluxe Taiwan Lantern Festival 11 Days Tour
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Page 1 of 6 Customer Initial:………………. 2015 Deluxe Taiwan Lantern Festival 11 Days Tour Departure Date: 7MAR2015 Day 3- Taipei / Wulai / Chiufen / Yehliu / Pingxi (B/L/D) Tour Code: TWG07MAR15 9Mar2015 (Mon): After breakfast, we will Departure Adult Single Supplement Land Only depart for Wulai, a famous mountain village Sydney $3200 Early Bird Special $2780 + Tax +$900 $2200 p.p twn share in northern Taiwan and is located in water Highlights: Taiwan International Orchid Show (TIOS), Cherry Blossom, Taiwan Lantern Festival, Taipei City, CKS Memorial Hall, National Palace Museum, Yangmingshan, Wulai, Chiufen, Yehliu, Hualien, Taroko Gorge, East Coast reservation area. Residents are most National Scenic Area, Taitung, Butterfly Valley, Kenting National Park, Maopitou, Oluanpi Light House, Kaohsiung, aboriginal people (Atayal Tribe). The place Tainan Aboriginal Beinan Cultural Village, Alishan, Sun Moon Lake, Night Markets, Taiwanese food… is famous for hot springs, trail train, and Inclusions: Return international economy airfare with China Airlines waterfalls. A distinctive feature of Wulai is 8 nights hotel accommodation (5 star hotels ) twin share Return airport hotel transfers the wide variety of cherry trees. During Meals as specified (B=8, L=8, D=6) February to April, various cherry trees Luxury coach transportation throughout tour blossom along the winding mountain roads, Professional English speaking tour guide throughout tour Admission and Entrance fees valleys and rivers. There is a cable cart to Taiwan tour insurance (inside Taiwan’s hotels & coach only) have panoramic view of the valley. The Exclusions: Airport & Government Taxes (Approx min. $320 p.p.) "Wulai Old Street" will be visited, where you Tips min. A$7 p.p. per day x 10 days = A$70 (approx. NT$2100) can taste the many famous Taiwanese Drinks & food not mentioned in your itinerary Personal Comprehensive Travel Insurance. gourmet and snacks. Next stop will be FREE Bonus: Hot Spring Experience & Food Massage; Return airfare from Taipei to one of the Asia cities: Bangkok, Chiufen Village, used to be the center of Chiang Mai, Denpasa, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Phuket, Penang, Phnom Penh, Saigon, gold mining. Several movies were shot here Singapore, Yangon, Surabaya, Tokyo, Osaka, Fukoka, Nagoya, and Seoul. and won international acknowledgement, i.e. Conditions: Deposit $300 p.p. Remaining balance to be paid 1 month prior departure. Cancellation 15 days prior departure has fee of A$800 p.p. Cancellation within 14 days departure is non refundable. Min. 10 Pax required for the Sad City has won first prize in Venice guaranteed departure. For full Terms & Conditions see page 5 & 6 of this document. Film Festival and awakened people’s Day 1- Departure from Brisbane / Arrive opportunity to see the colorful ceremony of memory of Chiufen. There are many unique Taiwan the changing of the guards at the entrance. teahouses in Chiufen. These teahouses are 7Mar 2015 (Sat) - Depart flight from Lunch will be held at the famous Five Dime best stops during visit to this mountain Brisbane (CI54 23:15) to Taiwan. Driftwood House. After lunch, we will depart village. Lunch will be held at Chiufen for Yangmingshan National Park. The traditional restaurant. After Lunch you will be Day 2- Arrive Taiwan / Taipei City magnificent mountainous scenery and taken to Yehliu Ocean Park. Because the Sightseeing / Yangmingshan / Shihlin comfortable weather have made rock layer of seashore contains sandstone Night Market (L) Yangmingshan a perfect summer resort. of limestone texture and it is subject to sea 8Mar2015 (Sun) On arrival into Taipei Yangmingshan features cherry blossom in erosion, weathering and earth movements, International Airport at approx 6AM in the Spring. Total area of the park is 125 there is particular scenery consisting of sea morning, you will be met by your friendly hectares, designed in traditional Chinese trenches / holes, candle shaped rocks, and Taiwan Holidays & Travels tour guide who style. The natural beauty of the part has won pot shaped rocks. You will see the famous will greet and transfer you to Taipei City. it the reputation as urban forest and the spectacular rock formations “Queen’s Head” Sightseeing for today including Presidential Taipei garden. Later this afternoon, you will and “Fairy’s Shoe”. Tonight you will be taken Building (Pass by), Chiang Kai-Shek be treated by the famous Taiwanese foot to Pingxi to light up the sky lanterns. Sky Memorial Hall, National Palace Museum massage. Tonight you will visit the largest lanterns are made with rice paper and thin and Martyrs’ Shrine, and Yangmingshan night market in Taiwan, "Shihlin Night bamboo strips. You can pen your hopes on National Park. After breakfast, you will be Market". In the night market, you will be the bulbous-shaped paper creation and taken to Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, able to explore and see all sorts of bargains. watched it drift off in the clear sky. Dinner a landmark of Taipei City. The CKS In the evening, tour guide will advise will be held at the Taipei 101 Building. We Memorial Hall is the attraction most visited whether you are able to join the Lantern will then visit Taipei 101 building by foreign tourists. Outside the gate of CKS Festival events in Taipei city. (Observatory Deck included), the world’s nd Memorial Hall, there are poles carrying the Hotel: Howard Plaza Hotel, Taipei (5★) 2 tallest building. sign of true rightness. The four sides of the Hotel: Howard Plaza Hotel, Taipei (5★) architecture structure are similar to those of the pyramids in Egypt. The material is white marble. The roofs are decorated with deep blue glass as part of the reflection of blue sky and bright sun. There are also places for international art performances. They are National Theater and National Concert Hall. The National Palace Museum houses the Martyrs’ Shrine National Palace Museum world’s largest collection of priceless Wulai Waterfall Chinese art treasures, one which spans China’s nearly 5,000 year history. Most of the museum’s 620,000 art objects were part of the Chinese imperial collection, which began over 1,000 years ago in the early Song dynasty. In the afternoon, we will visit Martyrs' Shrine, a classic Ming Dynasty architecture. You might have the Day 4 – Taipei / Taroko Gorge / Hualien Howard Plaza Hotel, Taipei Chiufen Village Victoria Tele World Travel T/A TaiwanHolidays TEL: (02) 9267 1308 FAX: (02) 9267 1307 ABN: 12 818 208 603 Lic. No.: 2TA003346 www.TaiwanHolidays.com.au Email: [email protected] Page 2 of 6 Customer Initial:………………. (B/L/D) Day 5 – Hualien / Taitung (B/L/D) Day 6 - Taitung / Kenting / Kaohsiung 10Mar2015 (Tue): After breakfast, we will 11Mar2015 (Wed): - After breakfast at the (B/L) visit Orchid Garden in YiLan, where more hotel, we will depart to visit indigenous Amei 12Mar 2015 (Thu) – After breakfast, We will than 1.3 millions of orchids are located. On Culture Centre and GuangFu Sugar Factory. drive to Kenting via the Scenic Southern our way to Taroko Gorge, we will drive pass Lunch will be held at Butterfly Valley. Link Highway. Kenting National Park, the "Chingshuei Cliff" located on the Butterfly Valley is abundance with beautiful undoubtedly, is one of the most beautifully section of the Suao-Hualien Highway that landscape and natural environment. It's just reserved natural forest in Taiwan. Kenting stretches between Heping and Chongde the perfect essence to renowned butterfly National Park covers a total area of 33,268 stations, is one of the most spectacular sceneries. Here you can enjoy a unique hectares of land and maritime environments. sights on Taiwan's Pacific coast. The Cliff is natural experience and amazing comfortable It is located in south of the tropical region of more than 1,000 meters high and drops sensation outdoor hot spring and spa in Taiwan where palm tree, sugar cane and almost vertically into the sea. The highway the deluxe butterfly Valley Resort. Luyeh surfing beach are part of the scene. It's an snakes along its curving face more than 20 Gao Tai: located at the long and narrow rift excellent place for swim, surf, and dive. kilometers, with the sheer cliff rising on one at the junction of the Central Range and Other sightseeing will be visited today are side and a sheer drop to the ocean on the Coastal Range. This famous sky diving the southernmost tip of Taiwan, “Maopitou" other. Then visit Taroko Gorge, which is practice hub in Taiwan is a perfect place for (named after the shape of cat-nose-like the “Seven Wonder of Asia". Taroko is sky diving and hot air balloon activities, rock). The coast reforms which strongly famous for its spectacular mountains and attracting a lot of sky divers to come and affected by wave erosions, efflorescence, marble canyons. Cliffs and canyons stretch enjoy gliding with the wind. Luyeh Tableland and salt-soaking. The natural landscape like along Liwu River. Four million years ago, enjoys wonderful scenery overseeing the wave erosion caves, ditches, and pillars are the island of Taiwan was formed by the rivers and green land of the rift valley. Later amazing, sea view here is attractive and collision of plates. After millions of years of in the afternoon we will go to "Tainan very enjoyable. The Oluanpi Light House wind erosion, the marble rocks were Aboriginal Beinan Cultural Village"; it is will also be visited (it is the world's first exposed and cut by Liwu River, creating the site where the BC civil human evidences military equipped light house). In the impressive grand canyons. The waterfalls have been found. Beinan Cultural relic is the afternoon, we will visit the orchid garden at characterized Taroko National Park. sarcophagus and remnants excavated Clone International Biotech Co.Ltd.