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Taipei, Taiwan
6 places worth your time in Taipei, with what each is actually like and when to go.
The tallest building in the world until 2007, with a 660-tonne damper visible on the 88th floor.
The imperial collection that left the mainland in 1949 — nearly 700,000 objects, rotated a fraction at a time.
A 1738 temple that has survived bombing and earthquake, and is busiest at evening chanting.
A volcanic valley inside the city, with public baths and a museum in a Japanese-era bathhouse.
A twenty-minute climb for the standard Taipei 101 photograph.
A former gold-mining town of lantern-lit stairways in the hills north-east, best after the coaches leave.
