Six weeks · one tiny traveller · two big routes

Which autumn
feels like us?

This is not a spreadsheet with scenery attached. Start with the feeling you want, meet the places, then open the practical details only when they help.
Meet the two journeys Take the gut check
A blank day is still part of the itinerary.
Illustrated travel collage connecting Amsterdam, Taiwan, Korea and China
Our big autumn question, in one picture

First, the emotional choice

Two excellent trips.
Very different memories.

Route A is the long mountain holiday with wonderful food. Route B is the broader cultural leap—with China as the reason to spend more.
Seoraksan granite peaks in autumn
Seoraksan's late-autumn finale
Cloud sea around Alishan mountains
A week inside tea mist
Fresh beef soup in Tainan
One bowl worth returning for
ATaiwan + South Korea
the simpler route

Mountains between meals

Choose this for more hiking, fewer airport days and the feeling of temporarily living in Taiwan before a dramatic Korean finish.

27 nights Taiwan14 nights Korea5 real basesOne regional flight
  • More frequent serious hikes
  • Easier baby logistics
  • Best chance of holding €7k
Working plan€7,000Feel route A
Sandstone towers of Zhangjiajie
The trip's most surreal landscape
Hall of Supreme Harmony in Beijing
Imperial scale, slowly
Busy Chengdu hotpot restaurant
Nine nights of tea and spice
BChina + Taiwan
≈ €1,500 more

China in three chapters

Choose this if Beijing, Chengdu and the stone towers of Wulingyuan feel worth a little more money, friction and airport time.

20 nights China21 nights Taiwan6 real basesThree regional flights
  • The broadest cultural journey
  • China's food and daily life
  • One truly singular landscape
Working plan€8,500Feel route B

The memories hiding inside the routes

It is easier to choose when you can picture the days.

Every photograph opens into a gallery. Wander before you analyse.
Mount Qixing summit
01A proper summit, reached from Taipei
Wulingyuan sandstone panorama
02Stone towers dissolving into haze
Banyan roots wrapping Anping Tree House
03Tainan, slowly reclaimed by trees
Sichuan opera performer
04One vivid Chengdu evening
Seoul from Inwangsan
05A megacity beneath the ridge
Red cypress forest at Alishan
06Forest that feels older than time
Bindaetteok frying in Gwangjang Market
07Sit down. Share one excellent thing.
Beihai Park in Beijing
08Breathing room beside the palaces

The useful comparison

What actually changes?

Ignore tiny itinerary differences. These five trade-offs are the decision.
FactorRoute A · Taiwan + KoreaRoute B · China + Taiwan

Nature

More frequent big hikes
The single most surreal landscape

Food + culture

Taiwan depth, then Korean contrast
Beijing, Sichuan and Taiwan

Baby ease

Simpler transfers and familiar systems
More airports and app setup

Travel friction

One regional flight
Three regional flights

Budget

About €7,000
About €8,500
The shortest honest answer: Choose A if the trip should feel like a long mountain holiday with excellent food. Choose B if visiting China itself feels worth the additional €1,500 and airport days.
A 30-second gut check

Stop comparing logistics.
Choose the feeling.

There is no objectively perfect route. Pick the sentence that sounds most like the trip you want to remember.

1The trip should feel like…
2For the baby logistics…
3The landscape we keep picturing is…
4On the budget…
23 October–3 December 2026

You came a long way.
You still do not have to do everything.

Explore route A Explore route B