Not many pictures in today’s post, I’m afraid and most likely, by the time this post goes live, I will be somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a plane heading for Seattle. Where I live (in Northern Utah), there will always be a connecting flight when I want to go abroad.

Anyway, I’m still in Taipei as I’m writing this post. My flight won’t depart for another 2 hours. It will sure be a little strange when I land in Seattle tomorrow since I’ll be departing Taiwan at 8:30 PM on March 21 but I will be arriving at 4:05 PM on March 21 in Seattle. Talk about a case of Deja vu!

Since we don’t leave until later in the evening, we had most of the day in Taipei. We decided to visit the National Taiwan Museum. We both thought it would showcase more of the history of the island but we didn’t expect the museum was full of fossils and taxidermy of ancient insects.

This is the skeleton of a rhino, by the way, not a dino. I didn’t know until I read the sign.

That is not to say there wasn’t any people history. The history that was present was definitely valuable (as a knowledge) in my opinion. Like I didn’t know this was the flag of the island of Formosa (Taiwan’s former name) in 1895. I love knowing things like this.

Our tickets covered two museums – this museum and the Land Bank museum across the street. There were dinosaur skeletons in the museum across the street and I felt the museums in Taiwan seem to have a target audience of children because the exhibits in the museums seemed to have children in mind, rather than adults.

The most interesting thing in the Land Bank museum was the bank vault. It was made by a company in Tokyo and it takes several locksmiths to open the door. So be very careful to but get trapped inside.