About Taiwan Adventures – English-Speaking Hiking Guides in Taiwan
Taiwan Adventures is a Taiwan-based hiking and outdoor adventure company run by experienced English-speaking guides who love exploring the mountains, forests, rivers and coastlines of Taiwan.
Our team has more than 50 years of combined experience travelling, hiking, guiding and living on “Ilha Formosa,” the Beautiful Island. We help visitors, families, schools and private groups plan safe, memorable guided hiking tours across Taiwan, from Taipei day hikes to overnight camping trips and high mountain treks.
We specialise in private Taiwan hiking trips, school adventure programmes, high mountain hikes, Taipei day hikes and custom outdoor experiences. Whether you want to climb Yushan, explore Snow Mountain, hike near Taipei, camp beside a remote lake or organise an outdoor education trip for students, we can help with route planning, transport, permits, meals, safety and logistics.
Why Choose Taiwan Adventures?
Taiwan is a small island with huge outdoor variety. In a short distance, you can find subtropical forests, volcanic ridges, deep river valleys, coastal cliffs, remote Indigenous villages, hot springs and 3,000m high mountains.
Our job is to help you experience that safely and enjoyably. We know Taiwan’s trails, weather, transport systems, permit rules and mountain culture, and we can help choose the right hike for your fitness, experience and travel plans.
Taiwan Adventures offers:
- English-speaking hiking guides in Taiwan
- Private guided hikes and custom outdoor trips
- Taipei day hikes and northeast coast hikes
- High mountain hiking tours, including Yushan, Snow Mountain and Qilai
- Overnight hikes, lake camping trips and hot spring hiking trips
- School adventure trips and outdoor education programmes
- Help with transport, permits, meals, accommodation and logistics
- Safety-focused planning from guides with wilderness first-aid training
The Partners
We’re four guys, three Brits and one American who have been living and traveling around Taiwan together for a long time. We all came to Taiwan for completely different reasons, but fell in love with it for the same ones, the island’s outstanding natural beauty and the friendliness of the locals who have so often gone completely out of their way to help us.
Ross
Feeling bored of home and adventurous, Ross came to Taiwan in 2001 for a year to teach English. He left after 9 months with his tail between his legs and a feeling that he had not made the most of this opportunity. With only one trip out of Taipei (to Hualien) in this time, he felt he’d missed seeing so much of this remarkable little island.
Within a couple of years he was back, a better teacher, a better traveller, and a more adventurous person. Since then he‘s hiked the biggest mountains, traveled from north to south and east to west, camped, explored, lived and partied all over Taiwan, Still there are always more places to go, and things for him to discover, learn and experience. He’s not tired of Taiwan yet and doubts he ever will be.
Neil
Neil came to Taiwan thinking that it would be a good place to base himself to explore other countries in Asia. Before long, he realized that there is so much to see and do in Taiwan, that he rarely needs to leave the island to find something new and interesting. Whether in the mountains, a temple, a small village or a big city, Neil can usually be found documenting Taiwan with his images.
Neil is a professional freelance photographer who specializes in editorial and corporate images. His portfolios can be found at: neilwade.com and his travel blog can be found at Taiwan Photography Blog.
Phil
Phil has been a resident of Taiwan since 2004 and during this time has traveled extensively throughout the island. During this time, he also spent three years studying Mandarin at the National Taiwan Normal University and achieved the highest level in the Mandarin Proficiency Test.
In recent years he has written about his travels around the island (in English and Mandarin) for a variety of magazines and websites. In 2010, he released his iPhone guide to Taipei - Taipei Uncovered. The positive feedback received from this inspired him to get together with the rest of the team and create guides to the whole island.
Stu
Stu first arrived in Taiwan with the intention of staying for 6 months and then moving on to the next Asian country. 6 years later and he‘s still here and still enjoys traveling and exploring the ’beautiful island’.
Since coming to Taiwan, Stu took up hiking and really can‘t think of a better way to see Taiwan’s real beauty than walking and climbing its hills and mountains. From hot, semi-tropical broad-leafed jungle to snow covered peaks, Taiwan really does have it all. Stu has written extensively about his treks on Hiking Taiwan.
