Day 435: Taichung City

Jun 11 - Take a local bus out to the National Museum of Natural Science. There are several buildings, but the only one we pay to enter hosts interactive science exhibits, and a detailed hands-on experience about how semiconductors work.

Odette working in a semiconductor lab.

The floor on planetary science is fun for Odette but is a bit dated, and some of the activities no longer work.

There is a downpour, which ends as we wait around, allowing us to continue on to the botanical garden.

The most interesting place in the botanical garden is the tropical rainforest building.

Ironically, it was cooler inside the building than it was outside.

Walk south from the museum complexes down a narrow park area called Taizhongkeboguanqian Park. This is just a walkway displaying the timeline of evolution, denoted by stone inlays of various representative animals starting with tiny marine organisms.

Then a bus back to our general district and a long walk along another channeled river that has been converted into a park. It is called Liuchuan Riverside Park.

Luichuan Riverside Park. The lighting is decent in most places. I don’t know if there is really any risk here at night, but it was fine for us.

A manhole cover along the river.

Take a road from the river to the south, along a place labeled on Google Maps as Painted Animation Lane.

Just about every anime character appears on some wall or another.

Also some ‘golden oldies’.

And of course an appearance by Studio Ghibli. In this case, the story called ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ (1988).

Taiwan (ROC)