National Palace Museum, Taiwan

Here's a postcard I got from my good friend Berns, who started Postcrossing just about the same time that I did.  She had an internship in Taiwan last year and so she has a lot of postcards from there.  She sent me this one for my birthday while I was in Japan a few months back.

The National Palace Museum (NPM) inaugurated on 10 October 1921, is an art museum located inside the Forbidden City.  The NPM shares the same roots with the Palace Musuem, but split as a result of the Chinese Civil War.

The NPM has a permanent collection of over 600,000 ancient Chinese artifacts and artwork from over 8000 years of Chinese history from the Neolithic Age to the Qing Dynasty.

The main gate of the National Palace Museum

Wulai Waterfalls, Taiwan

Last August, I received this postcard from Lapi, a fresh college graduate like me.

The text in front of the postcard reads, "Wulai, a famous mountain resort, is 28 [km] south of Taipei.  Among the pleasant features of the resort is the waterfall, which 82 [m] long and 10 [m] wide."

'Wulai' should not be confused with 'Xiao Wulai' though they are both famous for waterfalls

It came with this stamp:

Clematis montana is usually used to cover walls and sheds.

From what I've read, Wulai is home to many tourists all days of the week.  In spite of my crowd aversion, I'd like to visit and see the waterfalls and learn more about the history and culture of an indigenous group in Taiwan.