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About Kuo-syn Liao
Expertise
I live in Taiwan. I like to travel around, at least 5 times around the whole island, many times to some good places..
Experience
Rode a motorbike to make a round-island trip for 22 days,over 10 times to yu-shan(jade mountain) and alishan, ho-huan shan,toroko,kenting,east taiwan,guan-u(see fog),lala shan,northern-middle-southern cross-island highways,thousand times to yanmin shan u-lai...
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Expert: Kuo-syn Liao
Date: 4/11/2008
Subject: Queries on travelling in Taiwan
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QUESTION: Dear Kuo-Syn Liao,
I'll be travelling with my family to taiwan (kao shiong) this month and we're planning to visit Alishan. Is there any way to book the train tickets from chiayi to alishan online in advance?
After visiting Alishan, we are also planning to visit huashan area of Gukeng to vist the coffee plantations for a day. However, I have difficulty in searching for information on how to travel there. Can you advise us on this?
And lastly, we would also like to visit Maolin and Meinong folk village as well as Kenting and will like to know if it is possible to hire cabs to visit these areas? If so, how do we go about it and what are the cab fares like?
Thanks alot in advance.
Ariel
ANSWER: 1::here
https://forestrailway.forest.gov.tw/Ali/Order/Main.asp
but I don’t know how foreigners book the ticket. What date you wanna book? I will check more info for you later.
2a::chiayi to douliu station(about 35 km) by train. Douliu to huashan by taxi (300 one way, but maybe you will pay round trip price 600???), or by bus( not so convenient)
2b::chiayi to huashan by taxi (27-30km):: according to the government regulation , my estimate is 600-800NT, but they will not charge like this. I think maybe 2000 or..(i dont know)
I think you are going to visit so many places, do you consider renting a car? Or hire a cab to go with you? There is another problem: how you communicate with them?
To hire a cab ,As far as I know , 5000-6000NT a day in my area,
Or let the travel agent do that…..,tell me and I will search more info for you
welcome to taiwan
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QUESTION: Dear Kuo-Syn Liao,
Thank you very much for your help. We ruled out the option of renting a car since we're unfamiliar with the roads. So We'll like to hire a cab instead, if possible, for day tours but we're unsure of how to do so. Is there anyone or agency we can contact while we're in taiwan? I should think that not all cabs provide day tours? Communication will not be a problem as we're Chinese and mandrain speaking.=)
Answer
http://tw.bid.yahoo.com/tw/2092094267-category-leaf.html?.r=1207894866
you can contact them, and you can tell me whom you will hire.
i can make a record, if anything wrong, i will contact the police.
(it is safe in Taiwan, but no one can guarantee 100 safety in any country.)
i think you will have a nice vacation in Taiwan.
bon voyage
===if any argue with them, you call call 110(or 112 through cell phone)
to contact the police
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