Taipei Trip again (Dec 2012)

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Squeezed a few days to go to Taipei. It turned out that my primary activity was to visit museums. We totally visited 3 different museums and some traditional tourist points.

The first place we went was the National History Museum. We went there for an exhibition named Petit Louvre which they showed mini-sized paintings and sculptures of Musee du Louvre

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These were just the duplication of the original so we can touch the exhibits. Here are the 3 must see items ...... Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and the Victory God sculpture....

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Some famous paintings here.....

The first one talks about the dedication to republic and the second one shows part of the history of Rome

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After that, we took a few minute walk to Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Square. The entrance plate, Theatre, Opera House and the Memorial Hall.

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Previously it had the wording 大中至正 and it was replaced to Freedom Square a few years ago. You can still see the dents of the old wording around the word 自

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Morning of the second day we went to a traditional tourist point, Yehliu Geopark

Someone was fishing there alone and there were a lot of rocks being eroded by wind, water, etc..A lot of mainlanders visiting there too....

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The most famous piece of rock is called "the Queen's head". In fact it really depends on the angle you view it. The first one is not really like a "head" at all. The second one is much better....

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In the afternoon, we went to JingShan (金山) and tasted their famous bun....yummy

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We went to there because we will visit a famous private museum in Taiwan, Juming Museum. JuMing (朱銘) is a famous Taiwan Sculptor. If you went to Exchanger Square in Hong Kong, there was a sculpture of a man playing Tai-chi. That was one of the Ju Ming's work. You will see it later in this post.

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His museum there was huge and full of his sculpture work. Even a little pond shows his talent. He made a zip around the pond as the lotus there will change according to the season. It gives us a feel that whenever you open / close the zip, it will show you a different picture in different season.