Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/21
By: Oscar Wu and Brook Hsiao
Los Angeles, August 21 (CNA) Two of Taiwan’s popular tourist attractions, the National Palace Museum and Taipei 101, have been named among the World’s top 500 sights in Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travelist 2015.
Travel website Lonely Planet has created a listing of 500 places that travelers must visit, in which the National Palace Museum and Taipei 101 are ranked No.397 and No.448, respectively.
Lonely planet said that the National Palace Museum owns many of the best Chinese artistic works such as Ming dynasty porcelain and ancient paintings that were brought from China by the Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek during the Chinese Civil War. [FULL STORY]