Taipei Sights

Pedestrian street close to our hotel

Is it a cat? Or maybe a tiger? I don't know but I like it!
This kitty/tiger thingy is about 6 feet tall.

Another interesting sculpture. This one is in our hotel lobby and is also about 6 feet tall.

I went on a city tour this morning and the highlight for me was the National Palace Museum. This museum houses priceless Chinese artifacts from main land China. Chaing Kai-Shek took these items from the Forbidden Palace when he fled the country in 1949. He had an army of 30,ooo smuggle the treasures onto three war ships and took them to Taiwan.

Stone sculpture at a temple

I also visited the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial hall.
The hall is huge and very feng shei.
The details are amazing and very thoughtfully designed.

Chaing Kai-Shek statue

This is the view from the memorial hall.
Opera house on the left and the Concert Hall on the right.

Chaing Kai-Shek always believed that he would return to mainland China. He was very home sick in his later years so his son built the memorial so he was looking across the water to mainland China.

Taiwan has an interesting history and has been occupied by many different countries.