Pingxi and Jiufen Day Trip from Taipei with Sky Lantern Experience

If you are ever near Taipei, you must book this tour...so much fun! Building your own sky lantern, writing messages on each side before launching into the air was the highlight of the day. Actually the entire day was a learning experience about the history of the area. Its a MUST experience!

Jessica was awesome on educating us about all the locations and helped us have the best possible experience! She also tool great photos for us! Thank you!

Epson was the best tour guide of the 3 we had. He catered to us even when one of the tourist was limited on walking. Took me to a lunch spot where I had lunch on top of the mountain. He made our experience. amazing

We had a fantastic day our guide, Victoria was superb and made it a lot of fun. Also our driver did a great job.

We only had two full days in Taipei and we took this tour on our first day. We're glad we did - we were able to fully experience and enjoy the Taiwan countryside with the tour's well-planned itinerary and capable tour guide and driver. On our second day, we just made our way to the Taipei 101 area and just got lost among the shops, restaurants and attractions. And by late afternoon, we just walked to the Lin Jiang night market. Our Taiwan experience was complete!
If you only have enough time to take just one guided tour in Taipei, this is it!

Very good day spent outside of Taipei with an excellent guide, Phoebe. Good command of English. Does not scrimp on time.

Had a great time with a tour that turned out to be more personalized than originally supposed to be. Zoe and Claire were both super awesome and had lots of tidbits and facts to share with us the entire time. Jiufen was a really pretty town with lots to eat and see. If you've ever seen Spirited Away, you'll recognize it right away. It was super quaint and cute! The sky lantern experience was also a really cool experience that I would highly recommend. We got to make our own lanterns and write our wishes down and release them into the sky. Overall, a really great experience that was super fun!

It was a fun experience.

It's our first time in Taipei and this is really a nice tour outside the city. We were picked-up from our AirBnB home so it was a big plus. Our tour guide Amanda has lots of things to share about the places we went, and even took beautiful pictures for our group. She brought us to a very nice and quiet lunch place with beautiful view. And of course the highlight was making sky lanterns from scratch. Highly recommended!

My daytrip to Jiufen and Pingxi was excellent! The tour guide, Jett, was professional, knowledgeable, and friendly. It was a very rainy weekday, so Jiufen was less crowded than usual, creating a much better atmosphere for us to explore slowly. The family-run lantern shop in Pingxi was also a nice stop. Even in the rain, the lanterns worked and flew off. I recommend doing this tour over trying to navigate these sites alone--I think you'd need a car.