Overview
Taiwan packs a capital, a high-mountain interior and a subtropical south into a country you can cross by train in a morning. Taipei is the obvious first base, and the high-speed line down the west coast makes Tainan, Taichung and Kaohsiung day trips if you want them.
2 Taiwan city guides
Fun fact
One number worth knowing
Taiwan has 268 peaks above 3,000 metres. The highest, Yushan, reaches 3,952 metres, which puts it above anything in Japan or Korea.