Since my aunt and I both wanted to go to Gu Gong in Taipei, she took me along with her friend and friend’s son. Gu Gong supposedly has the best and most complete collection of Chinese artifacts, even from thousands of years ago. The Nationalist Party ‘took’ all the good stuff when they retreated to Taiwan after the Communist Party gained control in mainland China. Gu Gong was having a special exhibit of Baroque art, which the three of them wanted to go see. Of course, I was like, Baroque, who cares? I want to see the Chinese stuff, haha. So I wandered around the museum by myself and soon realized that it would take more than an entire day to go through all the exhibits, and I only had an hour and a half!
I seem to get in trouble a lot here. I didn’t realize that you can’t take pictures in museums in Taiwan, so there am I snapping away, and a guard told me I needed to stop. But I got to ‘steal’ a few before I was told, haha.
This is made of crystal!
Jade made to look like fatty meat, one of the main attractions of the museum
The views outside of the museum are beautiful
Cool looking tea, very sweet and sour
From Gu Gong, my aunt took us to the Maokong Gondola ride by the zoo. It is a popular Taipei attraction, although we bought the equipment and infrastructure from the Germans. You take the cable car up the mountain and the ride is about 30 minutes each way. We went up in the afternoon, walked around a bit and rode down in the dark, so I got both views in one day, how perfect! The ride was actually kind of scary, some inclines are really steep and you can see how high up you are, knowing that there is nothing below you and the only thing holding you up is a cable. So I thought the day ride was more intense, at night you can’t really see how high up you are.
The cable car that we sit in
Me getting on the cable car
View from the top of the mountain as the sun is setting
1 comment:
you are a delinquent! Sorry to tell you but you can't take photos in most art museums in NYC too! (Maybe when you get back to the states, you can tell the guards you're a foreigner too)
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