Day two of Kate's visit with me in Taiwan was a lot of fun too. We visited the famous National Palace Museum. This is cool because when Japan invaded China in WWII, the republican government of China took all of the ancient imperial art and moved it into hiding. After 10,000 miles the government took the treasure with them when they retreated from the new Chinese communist party to the Island of Formosa (Portugese for Beautiful Island), aka, Taiwan.
So this museum has the single largest collection of ancient chinese art (8,000 years worth) even though it isn't "technically" in China. (although China would disagree).
Anyway, enough history. After wandering through awesome sculptures, paintings, porcelean, etc, we took a blind adventure to one of Taiwan's many natural hot springs. We were able to find some in the city, but it is still summer, so getting into hot water didn't sound too inviting. Like Kate said, we'll definately have to explore the mountains in the winter some time.
Finally, we explored the Gongguan night market. Another exciting culinary adventure, Gongguan is more spread out down side streets and therefore less crowded (it was also a sunday). But the food was delicious, and we enjoyed this market as well.
The rest of the Day 2 pictures are here: MORE PICTURES
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