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See in Keelung (Taipei) · #3 of the port's ten~5h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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The Queen’s Head and a shoreline of mushroom rocks carved by wind and sea — geology doing sculpture. Pairs with Jiufen on every good tour loop.
A sandstone cape where wind and sea have cut mushroom rocks out of the bedding planes, the most famous of which is called the Queen's Head. Her neck is eroding by a couple of millimetres a year and will eventually snap, which Taiwan discusses seriously.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
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.
See the detail → Do · ~9h privateJiufen, 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.
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