7/31(Tue)

1. Rosrmary’s house: Spirited away

2. Hsimending: a shopping area in Taipei

Hsimending in Taiwan usually refers to Hsimending in Wanhua District, Taipei City. This area is in the northeast part of Wanhua District in Taipei City and it’s also the most important consuming district in Western District of Taipei. There’s a well-known significant Hsimending Pedestrian Area which is the first one in Taipei.

Ximending now is called the “Harajuku” in Taipei. Apart from bookstores selling Japanese magazines, Japanese books, CD albums and clothing are simultaneous with those in . It’s the heaven for Japanese culture adorers (in they’re called “Ha Ri Zu”).

3. Shilin Night Market: The Night markets or night bazaars are street markets operating at night mainly in urban or suburban areas that are generally dedicated to more leisurely strolling, shopping, and eating than more businesslike day markets.

4. Stay at Rosrmary’s house

8/1(Wed)

1. 外木山 bathing beach

2. Tawulun Battery

Tawulun Battery located at the northeast of Lover’s lake. It is identified as the second-class historical site of . It was built in Ching dynasty. However, the buildings we see today might be constructed during Japanese rule.

The battery is mainly divided into four parts: entranceway, cantonment, cannonry, and bailey. Following the stone-made road of the entrance, you can first reach the cantonment area. The cantonment was a rectangular structure which had the roof ripped off already. The other side is the cantonment in cave which is built by digging through the hill. The roof of this cantonment is made from cement with arched shaped. There are also arched windows and doors. The cantonment in cave is the most secret place in the whole building.

The four cannonries in the cannonry area no longer exist, but only gutters of emplacement and pedestal of wheels on the ground. There is a slope next to the emplacement for the convenience of equipment supply.

The bailey is projected from the east, south and north side of the battery. The crossing network can sufficiently contain invaders. An important military base with a sense of war hidden away in tree shadows somehow reveals a sense of wintry that talk about her long age history.

3. Lover’s lake:

The original name of Lover’s Lake is “Headstone for five justice fighters.” It is a lake gathered by six streams. You can see beautiful reflections of trees and mountains besides the lake on the quiet surface of the lake. There are also spectacular sights such as molding catenary bridge, fanning mills, waterwheels by the lake that create a romantic atmosphere of Lover’s Lake.

4. Jioufen

During the first years of the Qing Dynasty, the village here housed nine families, thus the village would request "nine portions" every time shipments arrived from town. Later Jioufen ("Nine portions" in Chinese) would become the name of the village.

Jioufen was only an isolated village until 1893, when gold was discovered in the area. The resulting gold rush hastened the village's development into a town, and reached its peak during the Japanese rule. Many present features of Jioufen reflect the era under Japanese colonization, with many Japanese inns surviving to this day. However, gold mining activities declined after World War II, and the mine was shut off in 1971. Jioufen quickly went into decline, and for a while the town was mostly forgotten by the people.

In 1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness, the first film to touch on the 228 Incident, a taboo subject in , became a big hit in the theatres. As a result Jioufen, where the film was set, revived due to the film's popularity. The nostalgic scenery of Jioufen as seen in the film, as well as appearances in other media, charmed many people into visiting Jioufen. For the beginning of the 90s, Jioufen experienced a tourist boom that has shaped the town as a tourist attraction. Soon retro-Chinese style cafés, tea houses, and souvenir stores bearing the name "City of Sadness" were built.

Jioufen also became popular for Japanese tourists since 2001, when its downtown was used as a model in the anime movie Spirited Away.

At present, Jioufen is a renowned tourist attraction representative of . It draws many tourists from Taipei during the weekends.

5.Stay at Nancy’s house

8/2(Thu)

1. Traditional market in

2. National Palace Museum

The National Palace Museum is an art gallery and museum in Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China containing artifacts of ancient China. It should not be confused with the Palace Museum (note the absence of the word "National"), which is the Forbidden City in Beijing. Both institutions derive from the same original institution, which was split in two as a result of the Chinese Civil War. The National Palace Museum in Taipei holds one of the largest collection of Chinese artifacts and artwork in the world.

The "Jade Cabbage", a piece of jade carved into the shape of a head of cabbage, with an insect attached. The fame attached to this piece is due to the masterful utilisation of natural colour variations in the jade to recreate colour variations in the cabbage.

The "meat-shaped stone", a piece of agate, the strata of which are cleverly used to create a likeness of a piece of pork cooked in soy sauce.

3. The Grand Hotel

The Grand Hotel, built in 1973, is a famous landmark located atop a hill overlooking Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China. It is owned by the Duen-Mou Foundation of Taiwan, a non-profit organization, and has played host to many foreign dignitaries that have visited Taipei.

The hotel's roof is currently the world's largest Chinese classical style roof. With its vermilion columns, the roof makes the hotel a visible showplace of Chinese architecture and culture. The hotel itself contains numerous objects d'art, wall panels, paintings, carvings, and significant restaurants. Dragon motifs are frequently intertwined throughout the various structures that make up the hotel, earning the hotel the name "The Dragon Palace". Beside dragons, lion and ume flower motifs also make a significant presence in the hotel.

Each of the eight guest levels represent a different Chinese dynasty, as reflected through the murals and general decor. The hotel has a total of 490 rooms. The rooms facing south are offered with a paranomic view of Taipei City.

Ever since the opening of the hotel, rumour had it that secret passages ran from the hotel for Chiang's convenience. The truth was uncovered after the 1995 fire, as part of the safety commission that was conducted. The secret passages were revealed to be two air-raid tunnels, each of them 180m in length leading to nearby parks, not the presidential residence or the emergency headquarters as rumours had suggest. The western passage is equipped with a slide for the disabled as an alternative to the spiraling stairs. The exits are obscured with concrete walls, thus escaping public detection for decades. The tunnels have a maximum capacity of about 10000 people.

4. Looking stars at 擎天崗

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