Taipei Layover Gallery

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The places a six-hour circuit actually stops at, photographed on the tours themselves — the memorial hall and its gate, the tower from the plaza and from the hills, the temples, the old trading street, and what a night market smells like at nine in the evening.

Taipei 101 lit above the Taipei skyline at dusk — Taipei 101 over the city at dusk — the view that ends a long layover

The Taipei skyline at sunset with Taipei 101 and the mountains behind it — Sunset over Taipei from the hills on the Xinyi side of the city

Taipei 101 rising above the rooftops of Taipei under a cloudy sky — Taipei 101 from across the basin, on a clear afternoon

The blue-green glass facade of Taipei 101 seen from below through leaves — The curtain glass of Taipei 101, from the plaza at its foot

Taipei at dusk with lit historic buildings in the foreground and Taipei 101 behind — Dusk over central Taipei, with Taipei 101 behind the old quarter

A cup of bubble tea held up in a lit Taipei night market street — Bubble tea at a night market — drinks are excluded from every fare here

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall behind its formal gardens in Taipei — Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall across the gardens — free to enter, open until six

The white Liberty Square gate at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall under a blue sky — The Liberty Square gate, the entrance most tours use

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall framed in the central arch of the Liberty Square gate — The memorial hall framed in the gate — the shot every guide walks you to

Pigeons rising in front of the Liberty Square gate at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall — Liberty Square early, before the first guard change at nine

The main hall of the Taipei Confucius Temple seen across its courtyard — The Taipei Confucius Temple courtyard — a few minutes' walk from Bao'an Temple

A ceremonial drum and painted eaves framing the Taipei Confucius Temple courtyard — Under the eaves at the Confucius Temple, with the ceremonial drum

Ceramic dragons and swallowtail ridges on a Taipei temple roof against a blue sky — Swallowtail ridges and cut-porcelain dragons, the roofline of almost every temple here

Hanging lanterns and gilded panels above the altar inside a Taipei temple — Lanterns over the altar — the light every temple stop is photographed in

Shophouses and hanging trade signs along Dihua Street in the Dadaocheng district of Taipei — Dihua Street — herb and dried-goods shopfronts, in a quarter settled in 1853

The octagonal red-brick Ximen Red House building in Ximending, Taipei — The Ximen Red House, an optional stop on the eight-hour route

The red facade and sweeping roof of The Grand Hotel in Taipei — The Grand Hotel on Yuanshan — visible from the road in from Taoyuan

Red lanterns lighting the stacked teahouses of Jiufen Old Street at dusk — Jiufen at dusk — reachable, but only if your window runs past eight hours

A bamboo steamer of xiaolongbao soup dumplings with a dish of vinegar — Soup dumplings — food is excluded from every fare here

Skewers of candied tomatoes and grapes on a Taipei night market stall — Candied fruit skewers, the cheapest thing to eat at a night market

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Every stop above appears on at least one departure, and most of them are free to walk into.

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