Salt and the history is topic for today

Today we've been to the Salt Field Eco-Culture Village, Salt Mountain and Museum.

The first stop has been quite unexpected, because we've taken a wrong bus. The number is the same, but one bus ends there and another goes to the Salt Mountain (our planned goal). This place has been weird. At first we had no idea, where we are. The place look like an abandoned village, where is a museum with dry fishes - it has been pretty scary. Later we've figured out, we're in Salt Field Eco-Culture Village and people were earlier making salt there. There are probably some occasions, when children can make salt, but not today. There has been also some kind of museum about this process and souvenir shop with colored salt and some sewed fishes. And I've seen there the worst Temple – Yongzen Temple. There has been nothing inside nad it seems like it has burned out recently... Well pretty scary and not interesting at all.

Welcomming fishes

Pretty scar..

I've tried at least a hat for making salt

Salt farm

Salt tools

Souvenirs

Temple

When our bus came, we went to the Salt Mountain, finally! It has been pretty small and the salt has been dirty, but yeeej, we're here. We've climbed up, make some pictures and went down. Someone has also tried to bring some salt home, but it has been difficult, because the mountain has been tough. We went also to the Salt House and later we've ordered an ice-cream and went back to Tainan. I have Durian ice-cream, not good :-)

Salt mountain

All our group, that climed to the slat mountain

Salt is everywhere!

In front of the sal house

Baaam!

Later, we'd missed the bus - me and Freddy (trainee from Germany, who has been on project One Child, One chance). Another bus had been coming in 50 minutes. But we'd caught it and went to the Natioanal Museum of Taiwan History in Tainan. This place is new there is no entrance fee and today is Saturday, so a lot of people were there. This museum describes history of Taiwan in three floors. On second floor you can see a lot of wax figures describing permanent exhibition: Our Land, Our People: The Story of Taiwan. The third floor is devoted to Special exhibition. There were something like woman and men exhibition – clothes and others or dragon boats.

National Museum

Nature

Tainan before

Dragon boat

Sugar mill

Ladies exhibiton

Wall of wishes

Map of the World

After our exhibition, we went to Tainan night market. It has been quite big. Of course you can buy there tons of food, drinks, clothes, play a lot of games and meet many many people (it's Saturday, so it's even worse than on week).

From my observation is a little bit difficult to find a suitable size of clothes for person, who is used to wear size M or L in Europe. Quite often you can hear - one size, one size or no bigger. When you become desperate, like me, you can just buy instead of very short and small shorts ¾ trousers suitable for relaxation or city :-) Maybe in the shopping mall, it would be better – next week :-)

Night market

Tainan night market