National Palace Museum 故宮博物院
 The National Palace Museum contains the world's largest and most valuable collection of Chinese art and artifacts covering 5,000 years of history, from Neolithic times down to the end of the Cing Dynasty in the early 20th century. The treasures here include porcelains, bronzes, jades, sculptures, paintings, and calligraphy---almost 650,000 items in all. It is listed among the world's four top museums. The exterior of the museum mimics that of the original in Beijing, and the displays in its main exhibition building are categorized into bronzes, ceramics, painting and calligraphy, and jades. Here visitors can observe how the Chinese arts evolved throughout history. There is also a modern gallery that displays modern and contemporary works. The jhihshan Garden that graces the approach to the museum was designed according to a description by the famous ancient calligrapher Wang Si-jhih and is a complete manifestation of the beauty of classic Chinese gardens.
Website: www.npm.gov.tw
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Sun Moon Lake 日月潭
 This lake, nestled in the mountains at the center of Taiwan, is the island's largest lake and one of its most beloved scenic spots. Viewed from the top of Cih-en Pagoda, the eastern part of the lake resembles the disk of the sun while the west side looks like the crescent moon. The lake's famous scenery can be enjoyed from its surface, by boat, of from the highway that circles it.
Website: www.sunmoonlake.gov.tw
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Longshan Temples 龍山寺
 Longshan Temples, located at the Longshan MRT station, was originally built in 1738 and today is Taipei's best-known temple. Its host deity is Guanyin, the buddhist Goddess of the Sea. They are accompanied by a host of other divine personages. The structure includes unique dragon columns cast from bronze. Despite World War II bombing and several reconstructions, the temple remains one of the city's best examples of traditional temple architecture.
Website: www.lungshan.org.tw
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Kenting National Park 墾丁國家公園
 Kenting National Park is situated on the Hengchun Peninsula. This was Taiwan's first national park; it encompaasses both land and sea areas, and includes beaches, fantastic rock formations, and a beautiful undersea world. It is a resort area that basks in a South Seas atmosphere. Continuous movements of the earth's crust over millions of years, together with sea erosion, have created marvels of coral reefs, sea-eroded landforms, and cliff topography here. Some of the spots most popular with gourist are Guanshan, Sheding Park, Nanwan (South Bay), Eluanbi Park, Jialeshuei, the Kenting Forest Recreation Area, Wind-blown Sands, the old wall of Hengchun, and the nearby National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium.
Website: www.ktnp.gov.tw
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Eternal Fortress 億載金城
 This square, French-style fortress was built of brick in 1875 to strengthen coastal defenses. It was the first fort in Taiwan to boast Armstrong cannon. It is surrounded by a moat that, in the old days, was filled with seawater. Within the fortress, which is now listed as a first-grade historic site, there is a bronze statue of Shen Baojhen and also three old cannons. A memorial tablet on the west side of the gate records events in the history of the fortress.
Website: tourism.ezgo.to/webcam/page6.htm
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Taroko National Park 太魯閣國家公園
 Taroko National Park, located in east Taiwan, is a world-renowned land of majestic beauty and marble-walled gorge scenery. Vistors sigh in wonder at the vertical walls, sheer precipices, gorges and contorted tunnels along the route of the Liwu River. The marble has been cut and sculpted by the relentless erosion of the river as the land has been pushed upward over the millennia, leaving the nearly vertical U-shaped gorge we see today.
Website: www.taroko.gov.tw
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