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Taiwan Tour with Solala Towler!
April 7-16, 2025
$4300 all hotels (double occupancy), meals, classes, shows, and travel expenses in Taiwan! Private room $700.
Each day will begin with a group breakfast at our hotel, then qigong with Solala and will finish with group dinner and Daoist energy meditation.
All along the way there will be time for reflection, sharing, exploring, eating incredible food, learning and practicing qigong and making new friends!
We will be working with Dana (Xu Shu Xin), a delightful and experienced guide. She will travel with us for the whole trip and be our guide, translator and confident on our journey!
More travel information will be sent to you after registration!
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Questions or concerns? Call Solala at 541.345.8854/solala@abodetao.com
OUR INTINERARY!
DAY ONE- TRAVEL TO TAIPEI
DAY TWO
Going slowly as we acclimate to the new time zone.
Doing a little qigong after breakfast.
(Wuji Qigong, an ancient Daoist qigong form from Wudang Mountain)
Rest until lunch…
After lunch visit the Longshan Temple, a temple dedicated to Buddhism and Daoism… We will do some divination by using wooden blocks that you drop onto the floor to answer your questions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-9rQ1KR7w.
Visit an incense store, where they only sell high-quality aloeswood incense (optional)
Dinner with group.
Evening circle/meditation
DAY THREE
Breakfast at hotel
Qigong with Solala
Lunch.
Have a private tea ceremony with Master Tsai!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ORpxd3R2ok
Lunch
After lunch visit an ice cream parlor that has many strange and wonderful flavors! (Kidney Bean, Mung Bean, Guava, Oolong Tea, Dark Plum, Kiwi Fruit, Peanut, Mango (my favorite)!
Visit a lovely tea shop run by my friend Aaron where I get the amazing 40 yr old Liu Bao tea! (optional)
Dinner
Attend an amazing show at the TaipeiEYE Peking Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2PzXu96g0g
DAY FOUR
Breakfast at hotel
Qigong with Solala
Take the longest cable car ride in the world up to Mao Gong, a mountainous area outside of Taipei!
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xyOkLkR0nU)
Eat Jasmine tea infused ice cream!
Visit a teahouse where the floor is a pond (with fish), walk over a small bridge, and step across a stone path to reach the tearoom, overlooking the mountains!
Have lunch in a restaurant where tea is an ingredient of every dish! (See video above)
Visit one more magical teahouse overlooking the forest and have high quality tea with yummy tea snacks! (See video above)
On the way down from the mountain we will visit a lush Daoist temple dedicated to Lu Dong Bin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICfwkPDL-qQ
Dinner
Group circle and meditation
DAY FIVE
Breakfast
Qigong with Solala
In the morning visit a huge outdoor flower and artist market with tons of teaware and art at reasonable prices, including jewelry makers and lots of painting, carvings and more from local artists!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHo9T-2iyk
after lunch we will travel to Miaoli where we will visit the Global Tea Hut center and have a powerful tea ceremony with tea master Wu De!
https://globalteahut.org/pages/about
Dinner at a fabulous vegetarian restaurant in Maoli with the Global Tea Hut folks
DAY SIX
Go up Anlishan, in the mountains outside of Taipei
Hike thru and ancient forest with 1200 yr old trees.
DAY SEVEN
Hike in another section of the ancient forest.
Have tea with local tea master
Head back to Taipei
Dinner together
Evening circle and meditation
DAY EIGHT
Breakfast at hotel
Morning qigong with Solala
Visit the world-famous art museum
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/national-palace-museum-taiwan
Lunch at the museum.
Visit the Yonglian Temple, a temple dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy and Compassion, Guan Yin!
Dinner together
Evening circle and meditation
DAY NINE
A short ride to Yingge, where we will be led on a “forest bathing” hike thru the forest to a magical temple on the top. We will also have a tea ceremony in nature by a local tea master.
Have lunch in Yingge, after which we can visit the old street with tons of cool pottery shops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICfwkPDL-qQ
a must in Taipei is to have the humongous mango ice cream extravaganza (see photo) and easy walk from our hotel…
DAY TEN
Fly home
Solala Towler was editor/publisher of The Empty Vessel: The Journal of Daoist Philosophy and Practice for 25 years. He has had 12 books published on the Daoist arts and has led nine tours to China. He is a certified instructor of several styles of Qigong as well as Daoist meditation. He was a founding board member and past president of the National Qigong Association.
Solala Towler was editor/publisher of The Empty Vessel: The Journal of Daoist Philosophy and Practice for 25 years. He has had 12 books published on the Daoist arts and has led nine tours to China. He is a certified instructor of several styles of Qigong as well as Daoist meditation. He was a founding board member and past president of the National Qigong Association.
Taiwan Tour!
