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    • TravelerSouth East Asia & New Zealand
      Day 63

      National Palace Museum

      November 11, 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

      Last day! Packed up and stowed our luggage at train station before heading to the National Palace Museum. One of the most visited museums in the world. The museum was started to safely store the Chinese artefacts of the Forbidden City, so the focus is art and artefacts from the great Chinese dynasties Lots of beautifully made items in all mediums some of it dating back to 200ad. The two most popular items are a jade stone carved into the shape of a Chinese cabbage and the other a polished stone which looks like a piece of pork belly. Not sure why they're so popular but it is a nation of food lovers! After the museum there was just time for a final bubble tea before heading to the airport.Read more

    • Travelersabbatical
      Day 153

      Nationales Palast Museum

      March 30, 2023 in Taiwan ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      Mehrere Stunden sind nicht genug. Da muss man schon fast froh sein wenn man die chinesische Schrift nicht lesen kann und somit die Bücher, Schriftrollen und Kalligraphie Abteilungen nur kurz anschaut. Bei hundertausenden (!) Exponaten raucht einem der Kopf schnell mal.

      Wunderbares Museum, vor allem für alle die Porzellan und Handwerkskunst aller Art zu schätzen wissen.

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      Several hours are not enough. You almost have to be happy if you can't read the Chinese script and therefore only look at the books, scrolls and calligraphy departments briefly. With hundreds of thousands (!) of exhibits, it's easy to get your head spinning.

      Wonderful museum, especially for those who appreciate porcelain and craftsmanship of all kinds.      Read more

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    • Round the World in 205 Days
      Day 56

      Ancient sculpture techniques

      March 25, 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Fresh off the plane, 80+ year old Great aunt Yumei decided it was about time to hit the National Palace Museum故宮博物院 after getting a quick bite to eat. She sure has a ton of energy! Hadn’t seen her for 20 odd years or so, but that sure didn’t stop her from getting right in there on everything from Davy’s backpack being too heavy (apparently it would stunt his growth) to Meg eating too much meat (hence the mosquitoes being attracted to her blood)!

      The National Palace Museum is very popular with tour groups from China because it houses many of the ancient Chinese treasures brought over in 1949 to protect them from destruction during and after the Chinese Civil War. We only visited about half of the exhibits, mostly the sculpture, jade and calligraphy rooms, which had more interesting pieces in them for the kids. Meg had lots of fun pointing out as many tian天 and yu玉 words as she could find, while Davy and Mommy marveled at the workmanship given the simple tools the craftspeople would have had in ancient times.

      We also discovered that Great aunt is not a big fan of being in pictures! Still managed to capture a few memories on the sly.      Read more

    • Traveler2018 Taiwan Study Tour
      Day 11

      Day 6: The Longest Day EVER!

      January 12, 2018 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

      大家好！
       
      今天过得很充实！
      首先，今天由我们给开平学生介绍澳洲的节日。我们安排了一些活动，从教他们怎么唱澳洲的Jingle Bells、怎么说澳式英语，到怎么踢澳式足球（因为台湾没有澳式足球，我们用的是一个排球）。活动很成功，我们都一直笑。
      在我们把学校到窗子笑破以前，我们和一些学生离开了学校，去士东市场。午饭我们在那儿吃日本菜，然后在市场里参观。今天是一个叫Medusa的同学陪我。她和我 一起尝试了“刀疗”！刀疗是用刀来按摩。做刀疗以前，我们很怕，但是尝试了以后都觉得很舒服。Medusa也教我很多花的中文名字，我特别喜欢兰花，台湾的国花。

      接着，我们去故宫博物馆，但是在进去以前，我们发现有木乃伊展览。对，在台湾我们看到了来自大英博物馆的木乃伊！两个博物馆都很有意思， 故宫博物馆最有名的展品是一个白菜的玉雕，叫“翠玉白菜”。
       
      这一天还没结束！晚饭的时候我们去了士林夜市，吃了很多小吃和玩小游戏。我们吃了鸡排、葱油饼、香肠、蚵仔煎、鱼丸汤、木瓜牛奶和胡萝卜汁、烤杏鲍菇等等。我们还玩了很多游戏，费兹玩游戏，玩得特别好，但是在花了很多钱以后（台币四百=澳币十七.一元），我们都赢了奖。
      今晚我们会睡得非常好！

      Hello Everyone!

      It was a very long day today.
      Firstly, we introduced Australian festivals to the Kaiping students. We organised a few activities , from teaching them how to sing Australian Jingle Bells and how to speak "Australian", to how to play Australian Rules Football using a netball(because there are no Aussie footballs in Taiwan, we had to use a netball). The activities were a success, we couldn't stop laughing!

      Before we broke the school windows, a few students left with us for Shi Dong market. We ate Japanese cuisine for lunch then we were left to explore. A fellow student, Medusa, accompanied me and we had a "knife massage" together! A knife massage is where knives are used to massage around the back, neck and shoulders. Before we got the massage we were a bit afraid, but afterwards we felt very comfortable. Medusa also taught me a lot of flower names in Chinese. I especially liked the Lan Hua, Taiwan's national flower.
      Afterwards we went to the National Palace Museum, but before we went in we went discovered the Mummy exhibit. Yes！ We went to see the British Museum's Mummy exhibit in Taiwan! Both museums were very interesting, the National Palace Museum's most famous exhibit was a jade cabbage, called "Jadeite Cabbage With Insects".

      This day still isn't over! In the evening we went to the Shi Lin night market, ate a lot of small snacks and played some small carnival games. We ate fried chicken cutlet, spring onion pancake, Taiwanese sausage, oyster omelette, fish ball soup, papaya milk, carrot juice and roast mushroom. We also played a lot of games. Fitzie played the best, but after spending a lot of money (400NTD = $17.10), we all won a prize.

      We will sleep very well tonight!!

      作者：凯丽 Written by Kelly      Read more

    • Round the World in 205 Days
      Day 56

      Modern sculpture techniques

      March 25, 2019 in Taiwan ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Perhaps the most memorable room in the National Palace Museum, aside from the block of jade that really does look like a piece of red stewed pork, is the (new? temporary?) 3D optical illusions exhibit. These pieces of potentially 3D-printed plastic are designed to have the property of looking completely different head-on vs. reflected in a mirror. We were particularly impressed by the fish and butterflies sculpture, as well as the right-left arrow one! Pretty impressive what creative minds can do when inspiration strikes.Read more

    • TravelerTaiwan
      Day 3

      World Tourism Day

      September 27, 2018 in Taiwan ⋅ 🌧 29 °C

      Today's plan is to take advantage of being a tourist by going on a free Historic City walking tour and then to the National Palace Museum which is normally around £10 but free today!

      After an amazing night sleep we went for our Historic Walking tour. Molly out tour guide spoke fantastic English and really knew her stuff. We saw the Longshan Temple, bought ice cream at the oldest ice cream shop in Taiwan, learnt about the various rulers of Taiwan, saw Taiwan's equivalent of Times Square, learnt why the Chinese design curvy streets (to prevent attackers and the Chinese Zombie), saw and heard about history of the 228 Peace Park and the stories of Chiang kai-shek. During the break me and Will ran to a bakery where we had a voucher for a free tourist gift, a pineapple cake and two nougat bars. Then we saw the Presendital Parliamentary building, the concert hall, theatre Hall and finally the Chiang kai-shek memorial.

      For lunch we headed to Nanmen market hall for beef noodle soup and then to the National Palace Museum. By the time we got to the museum it was about 4pm and we had been wandering round since 9:30am so we were quite tired with pretty sore feet. The museum was free so we decided to make the most of it anyway. Overall it was quite interesting and had a few pieces of interest but I was very much looking forward to a proper sit down. At the museum we saw various paintings with calligraphy, a meat shaped stone that looked like pork belly but was actually a mineral known as banded jasper, a jade bokchoy and much much more. The museum was huge, we only got round one section before having to stop due to throbbing feet.

      We are now both starving for dinner so it's time to head off in hunt of food. We tried Raohe Night Market and having been to 3 night markets in Taiwan, I'm convinced they are the same with different names and size. We had beef bone soup, pan fried dumplings and a Peppered Pork Bun again and then headed home to plane for our next day.

      The original plan was to stay one more day and do a day trip to Jiufen, a neighbouring town. However the hostel tried charging us double as its a Friday and the rain from the passing typhoon is supposed to be worse tomorrow and therefore worse on the north east of the island. So we are going to go to Taichung, famous for its food and on the west of the island. We've also booked in for our very first couchsurfing experience! Bit of an adventure so let's see how it goes 😊      Read more

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    Yongfu Village, Yongfu, 永福里

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