Another great day in Tainan! Today we visited some historic sites of Taiwan's oldest city- Tainan. The first stop was the amazing Chihkan Tower which was built in 1653 by the Dutch during their colonisation of Taiwan.
We then stopped by the relaxing 'Eternal Golden Castle' a defensive castle built in 1874 to to safeguard the coast and to defend the island against Japanese invasions. This was a most interesting historic site and a most relaxing place to visit and wind down the pace for an hour or so.
We were then treated to a 5-star lunch which was nothing short of spectacular! A five course meal with a main including duck with caramelised blueberry sauce or angus beef with a black mushroom sauce. Dessert was so well presented that it took an effort to start eating it... but did not take long to finish it off.
After lunch we had a vocational visit to the fire station where we had a guided tour that started with the disaster control centre and eventuated to:
1. A small model demonstration of the fire emergency procedure
2. A ride in the helicopter flight simulator
3. Navigating a pitch dark smoke room... get down low and go go go!
4. Testing the typhoon simulation room... rather windy!
5. Stepping into an earth quake simulation room... rather rocky!
6. Taking the high ropes at third storey level across two apartment buildings.... rather scary!
7. Escaping from the third floor via harness evacuation descent... rather fun!
This was both a fun and interesting visit that we all enjoyed. We then headed back to the hotel for a short break before being treated to another fine meal by our friendly hosts yet again. A traditional Taiwan style dinner, bursting with flavours, spices and variety concluded a great day of GSE.
GSE Team of Distict 9690
This blog has been established for the GSE Team of District 9690 (Western Sydney) who are exchanging with Disrict 3470 (Taiwan) in 2011. The team wearing their Sunday best!
No comments:
Post a Comment