Taipei Highlights Audio Tour: Heritage and Colonial Legacy

Explore Taipei at your own pace

Beneath the neon glow of Taipei lies a landscape scarred by bullet holes and secrets buried in concrete. This is not the clean tourist map you know. It is a collision of ghosts and power.

Unlock this self guided audio tour to peel back the layers of a capital forged through rebellions and high stakes political scandals. Navigate the streets at your own pace to uncover the stories hidden in plain sight.

Why does the Presidential Office still hide the scars of a midnight coup? What whispers remain trapped inside the walls of the National History Museum after the archives were cleared? And why does a simple hotel lobby hold the key to a missing diplomat's final hours?

Photo: Lisanto, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 5.6 km (3.5 miles)
• Stops: 13 landmarks, including Presidential Office (Taiwan), National History Museum, Judicial Building
• Audio: up to 33 minutes of narration
• Starts at: Presidential Office (Taiwan)

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How it works

• Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.
• Buying for a group? Choose one ticket per person: you get one code that works on every phone in your group.
• Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.
• Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.
• Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

• Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop
• An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks
• Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal
• Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like
• Lifetime access - your code never expires

Photo: Charles Postiaux, Unsplash

Where you will stop

• Presidential Office (Taiwan)
• National History Museum
• Judicial Building
• Taipei Hotel
• 228 Peace Memorial Park
• National Taiwan Museum
• The old building of the Bank of China
• Taipei City North Gate
• Ximen Red House
• Qingshui Rock, Mengjia
• Monga Green Mountain Temple
• Peeling Liao
• Longshan Temple in Mengjia

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

• Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary
• Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere
• At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want
• Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

• This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.
• It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.
• The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.
• You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.
• Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: Timo Volz, Lisanto, Charles Postiaux, TangChi Lee, Vas (Unsplash).