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Culture & history · 基隆The things that happened here and only here, told properly, then tied to what you can see, taste and book while your ship waits.
The historySpain, the Dutch, the Qing, France and Japan all took this harbour, and it is only a few kilometres wide
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The night marketTwo hundred stalls around a temple, ten minutes from your gangway
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The mountainA gold-rush town that emptied, then filled again because of a film
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The overlapWhy Taiwan feels oddly familiar if you have just come from Japan
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The festivalIn the seventh lunar month the gates open, and Keelung has run the biggest ceremony in Taiwan since 1855
Read the story →Cruise seasons run spring to autumn, but the port changes underneath them.
Around 15–19°C. Chinese New Year fills the temples and empties the offices.
Keelung is among Taiwan's wettest cities. Bring the umbrella regardless.
The best month for Jiufen — walkable stairs and reasonable crowds.
Comfortable, with the rains building toward summer.
Ships do reroute. Miaokou is covered and works regardless.
The seventh lunar month. Keelung's Zhongyuan festival is the largest in Taiwan.
Warm, drier, and the peak of the cruise season here.
The north-east monsoon arrives. Night markets are unaffected.
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