I want to share considerations of rest in the Republic of Taiwan (this is how, however, Russia and most UN countries consider Taiwan by the Chinese territory), - where to go to rest if you were brought in Taipei.
The inhabitants of the capital themselves are going to the northeast if they need a day holiday, and to the southwest, if there is time and mood to relax on the full coil. In the first case, it is a tarquet or Yeliu - the places are beautiful, but with the resort weakly associated. I'll tell you the poet, why Taiwanese ride south.
For 300 km south of Taipei, the city is the second largest city of Islands - Kaohsiun, the main port of the country. Another 100 km south is the resort area of Kentin National Park. Getting to Kaosiusa from Taipei is best on a high-speed train: three hundred kilometers it passes a little more than an hour, the cost of a ticket to a standard car without a guaranteed sedent (but they are almost always) - about $ 40 in one direction.
What to do in Kaohsiung: Since this is a huge port city, the atmosphere in the city is not quite a resort, but very positive. The city is rich and prosperous, with endless possibilities for shopping.
Tourists are mandatory attend the skyscraper 85 Skytower - Until 2004 (before serving the air-light skyscraper Taipei 101) it was the highest building on the island.
Favorite place of resting citizens is an abandoned railway deadlock and old warehouses on the pier. Absurd? - Not at all: the efforts of the city authorities, these two sites, located next door, are turned into a large center of modern art under the open sky. However, the old rails did not clean, offering to perceive them as an element of landscape design. And now every weekend thousands of Kaohsius residents come on the old rails tightened with herbs to boight air serpents and soap bubbles, to put up on installing metal or bamboo, to watch temporary exposures (on Google Street View, on request Kaohsiung Art Piers, you can still find some installations From the containers - cool, but now there are no worse on those places, unfortunately) and ride children on electric mini-trains.
With a beach holiday in Kaohsiung "Everything is difficult": there is free access to two beaches - at the campus of the University of Sun Yatsen and on Cijin Island (Qijin), but they are from volcanic sand. Sand clean, but black and looks bad: wet as black soaked, dry - like dirt. No romance! There are no Swimming flags on the beaches, but no one will punish you if you are going to swim - it's just a warning that the beaches are "wild", there are no rescuers. The Taiwan themselves do not bathe, because they do not bathe in principle - they will go to the knee in the water, Selfie will make it back to the shore, breathe by sea air.
If you want to be sought on a yellow sand, then you need to advance south, in Kentin (a bus ticket about $ 10 to one side, time on the way about 2.5 hours). There really "the right" sand, a bunch of small hotels and a typical resort outback, - to an amateur, let's say so; In Kaohsiung personally I liked much more, but it is subjective.