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Oct. 20, 2008
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18:00 ~ 20:00
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City Tour
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Taipei 101
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Oct. 21, 2008
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14:45 ~ 20:00
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Option A: Cultural Tour
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National Place Museum
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Option B: Natural resource Tour
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Yangmingshan National Park
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If rainy, option A will be the only option for Oct. 21
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Introduction
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National Palace Museum
http://www.npm.gov.tw/
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One of world's five great museums, along the Louvre, the British Museum, America's Metropolitan Museum, and Russia's Hermitage.
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There are over 655,707 artifacts in the museum, the displays are rotated once every three months, which means about 12,000 pieces can be viewed in a year and it would take nearly 60 years to see them all.
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Holds one of the largest and most precious collections of Chinese artifacts and artwork in the world, additionally most of the items were collected by China's ancient emperors.
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Ting Ware White Ceramic Pillow in the Shape of a Child
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P'eng-tsu-ting Ting
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Jadeite Cabbage with Insects
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The Meat-shaped Stone
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Taipei International Financial Center (Taipei 101 )
http://www.taipei-101.com.tw/
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- The world’s tallest completed skyscraper (total height 509 metres-1,671 feet).
(Although it will be overtaken in the near future…… )
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- Seven Wonders of Engineering (Discovery Channel, 2005)
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With one hundred and one floors, the Taipei International Financial Center has now achieved the distinction of being the highest skyscraper in the world. The mall just opened to the public in November 2003. In regards to security, disaster prevention and construction quality, it meets all the qualifications of a world-class architecture.
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