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See in Keelung (Taipei) · #6 of the port's ten~1.5h uphill — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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The white goddess of mercy has watched Keelung’s harbor since 1969 — climb through the temple terraces for the full panorama of your ship below.
Spain, the Dutch, the Qing, France and Japan all took this harbour, and it is only a few kilometres wide
A hillside park above the harbour with a 22.5-metre white Guanyin statue, raised in 1969, that you can climb inside. The park also holds a memorial to the 1884 French siege of Keelung. The view takes in the whole port, including your own ship.
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.
The park climbs the hillside directly behind the harbour and is topped by a white Guanyin statue about 22 metres tall, flanked by two large lions, looking straight down at the cruise berths. You can climb inside the statue.
The same hillside holds the Keelung Midsummer Ghost Festival Museum, which explains the city's Zhongyuan festival — the oldest and largest ghost month ceremony in Taiwan, running since 1855 as a deliberate replacement for lethal fighting between two immigrant communities.
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.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
A hillside park behind the harbour topped by a white Guanyin statue about 22 metres tall, which you can climb inside, looking directly down at the cruise berths. The same ridge holds the Keelung Midsummer Ghost Festival Museum and Ershawan Fort, defended against the French in 1884.
About fifteen minutes uphill from the berths, and it is a real hill in Keelung's humidity. Taking a taxi up and walking down is the sensible order, especially in summer.
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.
2 hr 30 min for bothKeelung’s own century-old bakery — pineapple cakes and curry pastries the locals queue for instead of the Taipei brands.
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3 hr for bothTaiwan’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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