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Day 23 – The Palace Museum

The Palace Museum was fun to get to as it was quite a way away from where we were staying. We started off by taking the subway from Taipei Main Station once we’d found the right line. (Taipei Main Station was so difficult to navigate I’ve written its own post!!) From there we exited the Shilin Station and headed away from the station to find a bus.

Finding the bus stop wasn’t so difficult, but understanding how people were queueing, or milling around, wasn’t so easy. Although navigating around the underground or the buses isn’t that difficult it’s quite different to what we would experience in Australia, and that makes it a little more challenging. There were many buses we could have taken, and many buses turning up every few minutes.

As we’ve found on many occasions so far through our travels locals are quite often more than happy to help or point you in the right direction. As on this occasion a local told us which bus to pick, and why it was better than others. We jumped in the right bus, tagged on with our EasyCards, and headed off to The Palace Museum.

I thought The Palace Museum was a converted palace turned into a museum, nope it was built as a museum. (I think.) The entry fee was reasonable and easy to buy through a digital ticket museum. The museum is spread over four floors, and covered the history of Taiwan and there were also a lot of exhibits from the Chinese dynasties. It was interesting, but I guess by the time we went to this museum we had already visited quite a few museums through Hong Kong, China and Taiwan that this one didn’t quite keep our interest for a long time. We did get around all the floors and galleries, but it was a cursory walk through rather than the in-depth reading we would normally do.

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