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Half Day Culture Tour: Shenken Old Street and Pingxi Sky Lantern from Taipei
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Half Day Culture Tour: Shenken Old Street and Pingxi Sky Lantern from Taipei
If you are interested in some great Cultural Tours in Taipei, try taking Half Day Culture Tour: Shenken Old Street and Pingxi Sky Lantern from Taipei
The average duration for Half Day Culture Tour: Shenken Old Street and Pingxi Sky Lantern from Taipei is 5 hours and cost $180 USD (American Dollars)
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Shenken and Pingxi rural districts are both located in New Taipei City. Shenken is formerly an agricultural and mining town, and it is now famous for its numerous tofu restaurants and vendors. Pingxi is well-known for its International Sky Lantern Festival. Join this tour to enjoy the famous tofu cuisine in distinctive cooking style at Shenken Old Street as well as to experience releasing the sky lantern with your wishes at Pingxi.
Around 11:00am, you will be picked up at your hotel in Taipei city and start this wonderful half day culture tour. Shenken is famous for its tofu gourmets, and there are so many different kinds of tofu in this place. You can try such as regular tofu, stinky tofu, dessert tofu, fried stinky tofu, BBQ stinky tofu, tofu cheese, tofu cake, sweet tofu drink, dried tofu, and tofu ice cream. After the whole round of tofu meals at your own choice, your tour guide will take you to another popular township, Pingxi. At Pingxi, you can write down your wishes on the lantern and release it to the sky. You can also stroll down the Pingxi train track and check out some old shops built during the 1930s and 1940s. You will also see some traditional wooden houses which were built during the Japanese colony era. After finishing this interesting tour, your tour guide will send you back to your hotel in Taipei.
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