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Do in Keelung (Taipei) · #4 of the port's ten~9h private — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Jiufen, Shifen’s sky lanterns on the rail tracks, and Yehliu in one clock-safe private day — the definitive Keelung call, booked by half the ship. Reserve early.
Spain, the Dutch, the Qing, France and Japan all took this harbour, and it is only a few kilometres wide
Jiufen, Shifen and Yehliu are in three different directions from Keelung and none of them connect usefully by public transport. The guided loop exists because that is the only way to hold all three inside a port call, and because the road to Jiufen is not one to drive yourself.
Keelung is a deep natural harbour at the northern tip of Taiwan, facing the shipping lanes to Japan and the Chinese coast. Between 1626 and 1945 it was taken by the Spanish, the Dutch, the Qing, the French and the Japanese — and each of them left something you can still see.
On what is now Heping Island
And are themselves expelled in 1662
And loses ~700 men, mostly to disease
Keelung becomes the gateway to Japan for fifty years
Walk up to Ershawan Fort and look down at your own ship. Every power that took this harbour wanted that view.
Booked before you sail — there is no tour desk at the pier. Booking through this link supports the site.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
See · ~5h round tripGold-rush lanes stacked on a sea cliff, red lanterns lighting the teahouses at dusk — the town that launched a thousand postcards.
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Eat · ~1.5h, walkableTaiwan’s street-food canon ten minutes from the gangway — crab thick soup, one-bite sausages, the "nutritious sandwich" fried to order.
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See · ~5hThe Queen’s Head and a shoreline of mushroom rocks carved by wind and sea — geology doing sculpture.
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