Pingxi and Jiufen Day Trip From Taipei with Sky Lantern Experience

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.

Our guide, VIvian, was organized, was like a mother hen getting us ponchos so we would enjoy the day in the narrow streets, watching out for us, giving suggestions as to where to eat, helping with our lanterns and even taking photos of the big event. Couldn't have asked for a better experience...not to mention the setting off of the lanterns was very exciting!

Enjoyable and memorable trip especially when pur guide Vivian gave us a free hand where to go and what to do an just meet up at the designated time and place. Would definitely recommend to my friends.

Our tour guide Ken was amazing. He spoke very good English. He was very accommodating and knew a lot about Taiwan’s history. He gave us enough time to explore and eat during lunch time. Would highly recommend this tour.