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A cruise-built private day to the capital: Taipei 101, the Palace Museum’s jade cabbage, Din Tai Fung if you insist — with the driver owning your return clock.
Taipei is about forty minutes from Keelung, which makes it the default long-call decision. The city was a Qing walled town, then a Japanese colonial capital, then the seat of the Republic of China, and all three layers are still standing within a few blocks of each other.
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Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
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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