If you are travelling to Taiwan's capital, Taipei, then consider exploring the city by bike - both the planet and your wallet will love you.

In a push to make Taipei more environmentally friendly, the city has introduced a system called YouBike that allows visitors to rent one of 500 bicycles from 11 locations across the city.
Once travellers have registered for a YouBike card (short-term and long-term cards are available), rental costs NT$40 (US$1 / £0.70) per day or NT$150 (US$4.50 / £2.70) for 5 days; the first 30 minutes of each session is free and then it costs NT$10 for each additional 15 minutes. A NT$3000 deposit is required.
Bicycle rental is completely automated through the YouBike card.
For more information visit www.youbike.com.tw/upage/english.htm.
Photo by Lin1000.tw via Flickr (Creative Commons).
