City Tour Info.
The congress will offer three travel routes for the participants to join. Except the third one, which provides free shuttle service only, the other two routes will have tour guides accompanying the group. Limited availability, please register early. For detailed itinerary information, please visit the conference’s official website.
| Route | Departure time | Fee | |
| A | Twin Museums （Tainan Shan-Shang Garden and Old Waterworks Museum +Tainan City Zuojhen Fossil Park） | Dec. 7 (Sun.), 08:30~09:00 | $800/person （Lunch is included.） |
| B | Guided Tour of Old Town Street （Guohua Street Food） | Dec. 7 (Sun.), 09:00 | $800/person (Lunch is not included.) |
| C | Chimei Museum/Ten Drum Culture Village | Please refer to the conference shuttle schedule. | Admission fees are to be paid by participants. |
| Remarks | • Both Route A and B have a minimum number of participants required. | ||
⏹︎ Tourist Attractions
📍Tainan City Zuojhen Fossil Park
Tainan City Zuojhen Fossil Park is the only fossil museum in Taiwan that exists as a unique combination of school and educational museum by integrating the former Tsai-liao Fossil Museum, the Natural History Educational Hall and Guangrong Elementary School. By integrating science, archeology, promotion of education and recreational tourism, the Fossil Park has presented itself as “the home of fossils” with its unique natural and cultural context, thereby transforming Zuojhen District into an important site for fossil studies.
Featured at the Fossil Park are collections of land and sea animals such as mammoth, stegodon, Formosa skia deer, crocodile, shellfish and so forth, with a rich collection of land vertebrae fossils that have been unearthed in the region as the park’s primary exhibits. Coupled with other exhibits such as Zuojhen Man skull, restored skeleton of Hayasaka Rhino and so forth, the Fossil Park has become an irreplaceable treasure trove of fossils in Taiwan. Today, Zuojhen Fossil Park has evolved from one single hall to having five major exhibition halls, including Natural History Education Hall, the History Hall, the Evolution Hall, the Fossil Hall, and the Exploration Hall, providing not only static display but also various interactive activities.
Website: https://fossil.tnc.gov.tw/
Source: 台南旅遊網 https://www.twtainan.net/zh-tw/
📍Tainan Shan-Shang Garden and Old Waterworks Museum
The art garden, dense forest area, succulent plants, and all kinds of lovely ecological forms that are scattered in the garden square is a key feature highlight that welcomes visitors to the Tainan Shan-Shang Garden and Old Waterworks Museum. Following the signage in the shape of a water pipe, visitors follow the garden path to several red brick houses, where, instead of the bustle of the square, they enter a quiet hall of knowledge. The halls are decorated with pump motors and water filtration structures, along the window sills are dusty bottles and jars filled with equipment and diagrams. For more in-depth waterworks knowledge, the museum uses interactive walls of light and shadow installations to allow visitors a new refreshing way to engage with history.
About a three-minute drive across from the museum is the Purification Water Pond. Visitors will have to climb up a number of stone steps to enjoy the view from the top. There is no imposing and majestic castle, nor are there any elaborate decorations. Standing humbly here is a low walled bunker made of gray and white bricks, with green moss and erosion water marks from its age, and a blue wooden door that contrasts with its unremarkable history, which is serenely beautiful and attractive in its contrast. The cherry blossoms that bloom every year close to the Purification Water Pond are also one of the main attractions for visitors.
Website: https://waterworks.tainan.gov.tw/index.php
Source: 台南旅遊網 https://www.twtainan.net/zh-tw/
📍Chimei Museum
The main building is 150 meters wide at the front and 42 meters tall, and it cost NTD 1.3 billion to build, a big gift given to Tainan City by Hsu Wen-long, founder of the Chimei Group. After opening in 2015, it became a top destination for both Taiwanese and foreign visitors. The museum occupies 9.5 hectares, and it contains countless precious international works of art, collected in order to realize Hsu Wen-long’s big dream of a “local museum, making music and art available to everyone, from 3-year-old infants to 90 year old grandparents, a boundless palace of aesthetic culture”. Tourists in Tainan absolutely must experience this European style palace full of cultural treasures.
There would be shuttle bus available at the conference venue to Ten Drum Culture Village and Chimei Museum. For the participants who are interested in the attractions, please feel free to take the shuttle bus to visit.
Website: https://www.chimeimuseum.org/
Source: 台南旅遊網 https://www.twtainan.net/zh-tw/
📍Ten Drum Culture Village
Ten Drum Culture Village occupies approximately 7.5 hectares, and contains 22 old warehouses built during the Japanese Colonial Period. In 2005 it was repurposed by the Ten Drum Band, as an idea to revitalize the unused space. Through careful planning, new life has been given to the century-old sugar factory that had been left unused. Its miraculous rebirth incorporates the Ten Drum Band's innovative Taiwanese drumming music to give you Asia’s first drumming themed international art village. At night, Ten Drum Culture Village becomes a dream-like floodlit sugar factory. Huge gears become a stage for nighttime performances and a massive steel molasses vat is used as a rest stop and coffee shop. The site also has a five-story high extreme slide, and Chimei Museum’s Paradise Path passes overhead. The most recent addition, a 7-story free-fall ride, also attracts thrill-seeking tourists.
Website: https://tendrum.com.tw/TpHome/zt (Chinese only)
Source: 台南旅遊網 https://www.twtainan.net/zh-tw/