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Opposite the new Taipei Arena, Holiday Inn Asiaworld Taipei is a short walk from the MRT station and Asiaworld Shopping Center and approximately 30 miles from Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport. This location is also six miles from the Rao Heh Night Market, eight miles from Sogo Department Store and National Palace Museum, 10 miles from Sun Yet-Sen Memorial Hall, and 15 miles from Long Shan Temple Xi Men Ding and Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall. Hotel amenities include the swimming pool, sauna, fitness room, gift shop, business center, Le Parc Cafe and Bar (Chinese and Western buffet), Canton Palace, and Shanghai Castle. The hotel also offers room service, valet laundry service, a concierge, babysitting, currency exchange, and free parking. All rooms feature satellite TV, in-room movies, coffeemakers, hairdryers, high-speed Internet access, individual climate controls, voicemail, and work desks.
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Holiday Inn Asiaworld Taipei Property Information:
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Rooms:
738
Floors:
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- Car rental desk
- Conventions
- Family rooms
- Nonsmoking
- Data port
- Fitness facility
- Swimming pool
- Business center
- Dining
- Meeting room
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Holiday Inn Asiaworld Taipei Reservation Policies:
Check-In:
1500
Check-Out:
1200
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Taipei Events & Entertainment
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Late
January/or early February
Taipei Lantern
Festival
On the
15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, a second "New Year"
celebration takes place throughout the city. Children carry lanterns illustrated
with legendary heroes, birds and beasts to Taipei's temples. It is a
competition, of sorts, for favor from the "God of Heaven," whose birth this
Lantern Festival, Shang Yuan, commemorates. The largest gathering of lanterns is
at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, an event so popular that the city fathers
have extended it with various Lantern Exhibitions running through the following
week.
The event
combines traditional arts with modern technology, using light and music effects
to display the lanterns to best advantage. Thousands of lanterns are strung
along the length of Jenai Road, lighting up Taipei City at night.
Mid
March
Lao
Tse's Birthday
Every
year; the 15th day of the 2nd month in the Chinese lunar calendar, the birthday
of the founding sage of Taoism, Lao Tse, is celebrated by Taoist practitioners
throughout the world.
The date
of Lao Tse's birthday is calculated according to the Chinese lunar calendar. The
dates change from year to year.
Mid
April
Parade
of the God of Medicine
This
celebration takes place four days before the God of Medicine's actual birthday
on the 15th day of the third lunar month. It is one of the most visually
stunning and vibrant parades in Taiwan, if not the whole of the Far East. The
center of the celebrations, which are spread throughout the more than 160
temples of the god in Taiwan, are the temples of Pao Sheng in Taipei and the
Temple of Ching Tzu in Hseuhchia.
The
incredible procession at Ching Tzu Temple is more than 3km (2 miles) long and is
composed of a huge number of dancing troupes, priests, pilgrims and costumed
musicians. There are around 21 traditional floats decorated with flowers, each
containing a figure from legend or story, as well as a number of huge statues of
the medicine god himself, carried on sedan chairs on the shoulders of pilgrims.
The highlight of the parade is always the performance put up by the various
theatrical and dancing troupes, the Chen Tou, of which up to 78 participate at
one time, showing off their talents in a suitably flamboyant manner.
The parade
is headed by a group called the Centipedes and as the procession gets underway
worshippers throw themselves on the ground in front of them to be trampled, in
order to exorcise evil spirits and demons.
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Late
July-Late Aug
Ghost
Month Festival and Quianggu
in Taiwan,
believers claim that spirits of the dead return, demanding sacrifice,
entertainment and appeasement from the living, for an entire month.
From the
first day of the Ghost Month, the living set up lavish feasts and opera
performances to entertain the dead, burning paper money (more than 220,000 tons
of paper money are burned in Taiwan every year for the festival!) to keep them
happy.
The
festivities peak on the 15th day of the month, when there are huge feasts in
temples throughout Taiwan and the priests chant prayers for the dead to enable
them to transcend their present condition. The festival is dedicated in part to
those dead who do not have families to pray for and look after them, to enable
them too to transcend to higher levels of the afterlife through sacrifice and
prayer..
It is
traditional in Taiwan to sacrifice a pig and a sheep for these feasts and offer
them up to the invisible dead in attendance. During the feasts the cityscapes of
Taiwan, particularly the temple courtyards, are transformed by tall lights set
up on bamboo poles, lit to light the way for the dead. Hundreds and thousands of
little floating lights are also set adrift on rivers and bodies of water, to
appease the spirits of the drowned, who might otherwise return to claim new
victims.
Keelung hosts the most important of the Ghost Month celebrations,
with parades and elaborate feasts at Tsu Pu Tan Temple in Chung Cheng Park. The
largest festivals in Taiwan are held in this area on the seventh day of the
month and again at the end of the month.
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Mid
September
Moon
Festival
The
Taiwanese celebrate the year's finest moon with cakes and contemplation.
For years
the lunar calendar was reflected in the cycles of the soil, while the autumn
moon marked the end of the agricultural year; a time to celebrate and reflect.
The Moon
festival is the occasion for consumption of the famous moon cakes. Traditionally
filled with red bean paste, these are presented to friends and family to mark
the occasion. When darkness comes, the parks around Taipei fill with families
and couples seeking to enjoy the full moon.
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Ceremonies In Commemoration of Confucius at the Confucius Temple
The sage
Confucius was China's greatest teacher. The anniversary of his birthday is
celebrated on September 28 each year. Solemn ceremonies are held at the
Confucius Temple; schoolchildren perform a ritual dance in honor of
Confucius on the platform outside the Ta Ch'eng Hall.
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Taipei Destination Overview
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Taipei, capital of Taiwan, is a city of high rise office buildings,
modern condominiums, and department stores. It is also a city of beauty,
culture, tradition, and sophistication. It holds 1,000 years of priceless
Chinese history in its hillside vaults. The
historical treasures of mainland China were transported piece by piece to caves
to preserve them during wartime. 620,000 of these pieces are now exhibited in
the National Palace Museum on a rotating basis, with the others remaining in
storage. Most of the porcelain, jade, lacquer, bronze, and other remarkable
objects were once part of the Chinese imperial collection. The National Palace
Museum is considered one of the world’s four best museums. The
Lungshan Temple is a center of worship for deities from several faiths. The
front court is devoted to the Buddhist goddess of mercy, the rear court to the
Taoist goddess of the sea, and niches throughout the temple to many others. Nearby Hsiyuan Road is filled with stalls selling religious images and goods.
The Chiang
Kai-shek Memorial Hall is an impressive sight. The gracefully designed building
is bordered by extensive gardens, areas for rest and contemplation, and fish
ponds. It is a gathering place for walks and for kite flying. The
nightlife of Taipei is vibrant and entertaining. Don’t miss the Night Market
with its myriad stalls offering everything imaginable. Fine restaurants,
classical music performances, modern art, traditional Beijing opera, and lively
nightclubs all operate in harmony. As for the cuisine, it is superb. Visitors
can enjoy regional specialties from all parts of China. Outside
the city there are several day trips that are of interest. Yangmingshan is a
mountain range at the north end of the city, and a great place for hiking and a
visit to a hot springs resort. On the opposite side of town, to the south, is
the Sungshan Nature Reserve.
Its mountain hiking trails extend into lush
forest. Thirty minutes outside Taipei is the seaside resort of Jio Fun. The
shore is lined with teahouses, each offering the world’s best view along the
coast. Taiwan's
culture is a blend of its distinctive Chinese heritage and Western influences. Fine arts, folk traditions, and popular culture embody traditional and modern
Asian, and Western motifs. The beautiful temples are the setting for colorful
folk festivals.
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