Taiwan Tour with Solala Towler!

May12-21, 2025

$4600 all hotels (double occupancy), meals, classes, shows, and travel expenses in Taiwan! Private room $600.

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!

GO HERE TO REGISTER:

www.abodetao.com

Pay with paypal, check or credit card (credit card charges may apply)!

Questions or concerns? Call Solala at 541.345.8854/solala@abodetao.com

OUR INTINERARY!

DAY ONE- TRAVEL TO TAIPEI

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…

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.

A visit to the famous Wistaria Teahouse

(www.wistariateahouse.com)

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

From our friends at the Globalteahut.org:

Many of you who have been to our Center know about the great influence Master Tsai Yizhe has had on all that we do. He is our teacher, brother and a great tea sage. He shares tea and wisdom with a spirit of hospitality that most tea lovers have encountered, freely given the way tea trees open their crown and offer leaves to passersby. His work to protect the environment of Taiwan has earned him our ever-lasting esteem. His works continue to inspire us. Through his preservation efforts, Master Tsai established the Tea Mountain Preservation Society (茶山 保育協會), which works together with farmers around Taiwan and mainland China to create mutually beneficial connections between tea lovers like us and farmers. In exchange for stewarding the land sustainably in ecologically sound ways, the association agrees to buy the entire production from the farm every year. This connects tea lovers to the source of their tea and removes the financial strain from the farmer, allowing them to focus on stewarding the land and crafting fine tea. It is a win-win situation and one we have been supporting since we had the honor to meet Master Tsai.

Eat some mango shaved ice or 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)!

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

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.

If time permits, we can visit the old street with tons of cool pottery shops.

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

Also, meet with a powerful mountain-dwelling Daoist master!

We will spend the night at Miaoli

Dinner at night market!

DAY SIX

Visit a tea farm and pick your own tea and process it very simply so you can take it home with you, with lunch prepared by the farmer’s wife!

Head down to Sun Moon lake!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=346_V0wsFV8\

Our guide, Wu De, from the Global Tea Hut, will take us to some very special temples there.

In evening attend dance performance by indigenous natives.

DAY SEVEN

Breakfast then qigong on the lakeside.

Head back to Taipei

After lunch 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

Visit Zhinan Daoist Temple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICfwkPDL-qQ

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

Breakfast at hotel...

Qigong with Solala

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.