We're in Tainan now and it is raining out, so I'm trying to catch up on the blog.
So Sunday April 19th, we got a bit of a late start. First we tried to go to a local buffet we went to on the first day, but it was closed. We decided to go to the National Palace Museum which was close to where we lived. Although it was hot and humid we decided to walk, thinking that we could find a place to eat along the way. It was a 30 minute walk and nothing was open except the 7-Elevens. Although it is interesting to walk through a foreign city, given the heat, maybe not a good idea.
The National Palace Museum is Taiwan's equivalent of the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Many of the artifacts are from Beijing and were evacuated to Taiwan when Japan invaded prior to WW2.
After the museum we took a bus to Taipei Main Station, which is the rail station. Yanmei wanted to check it out and buy tickets for the next day. We got there and it seemed very easy to buy tickets through the automatic ticket machines and the trains seemed to leave every 15 minutes so we decided we didn't need to buy ahead of time.
I still wanted to go to Taipei 101, but we looked around at the shops near the station for a while, but many were closed, I guess because it was Sunday. Then it started to rain heavily. We went into a 7-Eleven and bought an umbrella for $2. Due to the rain we gave up on Taipei 101 and went back to our room.
-David
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