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The Great Taroko Gorge!

Josephine, the Taroko Lion Lady talks about the "everything we must know" about our Taroko Gorge tour. She is superb in ensuring that we get the most of this tour. She is truly great in letting us experience Taroko in the most wonderful way we could. At the end of the tour is a visit to a marble factory that sells authentic Taiwan Jades which was sold to tourists at discounted rates.

Great highlight on the Taiwan visit

This is one of the recommended tours for anyone visiting Taiwan, Taroko gorge is beautiful with plenty of landmarks and natural sightseeing opportunities.

It's a full day tour that includes about 6h train ride back and forth and the rest by bus, including lunch in a nice hotel on the gorge

I personally would prefer to shorten the lunch slot to 45min or 1h instead of the 1.5h allocated and have more time on the trails etc

Overall a highly recommended activity for Taiwan visitors

I had a great time!

First time going to Taroko Gorge, and I loved it! Josephine is a hilarious tour guide who will keep you entertained throughout the trip. We hit several spots that were breathtaking. Overall, I would recommend this tour.

great one day tour

it's was a fun trip however the stop in many place to fast. I really like the beautiful and the nice tour guide. The restaurant for lunch also great. I don't think visiting the factory is a good idea, better skip this in the itinerary.

Rainy day but fun

Thu guide was very experienced, and guided us in English, Chinese and Japanese, pointing out all the main sights.
Lunch was tasty.

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Good day trip

It is a long day, but a fun one.
Hotel pick up, reserved train tickets and lunch at a 5 star hotel are all included.
I went with a friend and we were both satisfied.
Our guide is apparently known as the 'queen of Taroko', and she could explain in both English and Japanese.
If you have a day free in Taiwan and want to see nature, I recommend this.

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I think Taroko has the most interesting landscape, it is definitely worht visiting and this tour really ensures that you see what you need to in a short period of time

Not worth the money spent-can go by yourself

I signed up for English speaking tour, but our tour guide who met us in Hualien and led us throughout the day didn't have a "heavy asian accent", I just could not understand her English. When another person asked her to speak in Mandarin, then I understood her, which seems a bit ironic. Also, she is a bit pushy, and when we went to the "marble factory" in the afternoon, it's just a shop to buy jade and jewelry in order for the tour guides to get commission. Also, when the Mandarin speaking woman leading the short tour at the marble factory, our tour guide spoke over her in English at the same time, and as a result, I didn't understand anything either one of them was saying. The train tickets provided only cost 440NT, which is $12 USD, so it's a lot better if you take the train to Hualien yourself and maybe join a tour group there. Since it's a national park that involves a lot of driving around, it's hard to drive in their yourself, but it's definitely not worth it to pay to go to Taroko from Taipei.

Amazing taroko!

The gorge was beautiful..the tour itself was in general too short for the gorge. It was mainly hop on and hop off the bus to walk few minutes on certain trails. In a way, the tour was suitable for all ages,but not satisfying enough for adventurous people or nature lovers. The 5 star lunch was nicely located in a hotel in the gorge. However,food was average. The tour guide Josephine,as many reviews have mentioned, was very helpful and knowledgable. She was indeed entitled the name queen of taroko. Journey from taipei to hualien by train took around 3 hours. Pleasent journey, clean train, fully air conditioned

Nice professional touristic day trip.

Fast going tour, early morning starting, professional friendly staff. The Gorge is fantastic, the nature at its best and the infrastructures really very good, a bit too touristic for my taste :-). Interesting easy tour, glad and satisfied I've did it!

A wonderful experience! The mountains and canyons and surrounding views around Taroko Gorge is breathtaking.

Why do we have to visit commercial places (jewelry shops or pastry shops) instead of using that time appropriately to what we paid to see and visit (the tour). We would prefer to use that time to take our own pace to enjoy the sceneries, take pictures, and enjoy the new place. The tour allotted time for commercial places between 30 mins to 1 1/2 hours - and that is on our paid time. Can you eliminate this part from the tour?
Tour guides and bus drivers are very professional.

Overall an excellent trip. Had a bout of irritant diarrhea after taking the blueberry tea at the tribal cafe.
Did not like the shopping trips (Especially the jade shops - felt like being forced to buy!)

Even though a bit rushed at some spots we were given fairly sufficient time to look around and the guide took trouble to point out the interesting rock formations and interests of the place. But the wonder of nature at Taroko is worth a view. There was a commercial stop at a tourist shop which is not really necessary. The train ride back was nice and comfortable and has nice scenic view.

Was great for the price, airfare and the bullet train and for the Gorge was just breath taking.

tour was amazing. I like the tour guide- Josephine. She is awesome.

Josephine ar times was difficult to understand. Due to weather, we couldn't go to the gorge. ThT day the tour could have been shorter. However, the train tickets were for a later time.

This Tour was really very well organised. The flight was good. The tour Guide was very cooperative & showed us all interestng spots. She accommodated our request of stopping at a few extra places. The lunch was provided at a 5 star hotel which was very good. Actually the total duration of the tour from morning to night was about 14 hours ( 6 am pick up & 8 pm drop off), so we had actually spend about 9-10 hours in Taroko Gorge itself. The only negative aspect of the tour was visit to the Marble factory which was more to promote the sell of the items.

Thoroughly enjoyed. Guide Josephine was excellent and entertaining.

The Gorge itself is stunning and well worth the trip. However, too much time is spent in the two tea houses and the marble factory. The aboriginal dance was not advertised, but it was not really possible to turn it down. The wait for the train and the train trip, much of it in darkness, made the day unnecessarily long.

I wish we spent less time at the rock store and instead spent more time in the park.

Good and very attarctive sites. Ncie tour guide, very professional.

beautiful scenery, nice guide, but I would avoid to stop at the marble factory...I don't like tours that drag poeple into a shop and make them buy something. Maybe do less stops but spend more time at the secret gorge to hike ... this was actually my highlight and we got a short glimps of it.