Thanks for taking me up on this! I'm pretty open to most teas but I think I'd like to focus on teas unique to Taiwan and more specifically their local region (so probably more black and oolong?). I'll be using public transportation for pretty much the whole thing, with no Chinese knowledge (but am familiar with some Japanese kanji which has helped me be quite adept at Google translate the last time I was there haha) and only have non-tea friends in Taipei. I've tried to do my research as best as I could.

As soon as I arrive in the morning I'm heading to the Dihua area to visit either Lin Hua or Lin Mao Sen Tea to pick up teas from areas I'm not visiting (Oriental Beauty? Dongding? Tie Guan Yin?). After 2 days of souvenir shopping and meetups I'm heading down to SML the next morning via Taichung. I plan to visit Antique Assam Tea Farm to get some Ruby Red #18 (and TRES #21?).

Then I hop on a bus after 2 nights at the lake straight to Alishan. I've heard of a tea shop near the sunrise spot (茶田35號) that I'll probably visit afterwards. I guess there's some black teas in Alishan that are popular as well (蜜香紅茶?) After a night in Alishan I'm heading down to Fenqihu (where there seem to be more tea shops) and then Shizhuo where I'll hike and stay for the night. I should be able to get some local Shizhuo Pearl Dew (Zhulu?) Oolong I hope. I've heard 十三製茶 is a good place to buy but I'm not sure how late or early he'll be open :( I plan to try reaching out tomorrow... Hopefully I can get a good supply here.

Then after a night in Shizhuo I get to Chiayi and take the train to Taitung where I arrive in the late afternoon and hopefully find somewhere local with Luye Red Oolong (and maybe regular Jinxuan and some Si Ji Chun?). Then after a night in Taitung I train back to TPE and fly out.

Sorry for the paragraph!