Taiwan Day 1

   After changing hotels our first activity was to visit and tour the Confucius Temple.

    It was simply gorgeous and had the most intricate carvings and decorations. The temple is only about 80 years old. Confucius was the first to teach everyone. Today, students often come to seek his help with exams though he isn't considered a god. 

     Afterwards we had lunch at Taipei Main Station.

    Then we visited the ROC Presidential Building which is the Taiwanese version of the White House. The tour  covered the history of the building which was built by Japan who had ownership of Taiwan at the time. 

    Then we visited the National Museum.

 We were going to visit the CKS Memorial Hall but the rain interfered with those plans. The museum was full of interesting things. The best parts were making our own narrations to a video about fish (there were benches and we were tired) and the dinosaurs in the exhibition hall across the road (especially Matt's reaction to them)

After that we visited The Red House Market for Artists and walked around that are of the city for a while.