 The
Gold Museum
When European explorers came to Taiwan about 500-600
years ago and saw indigenous people here wearing gold
jewelry, they called this the ��Treasure Island of
the East.�� Today we��re in Jinguashi, New Taipei City.
To get to Jinguashi, you can take the Taiwan Tourist
Shuttle Golden Fulong line, which starts in Ruifang
and stops at several fantastic places near the northeastern
coast of Taiwan. Tickets are sold on the bus.
��Jinguashi�� means ��pumpkin rock,�� and there was a
pumpkin shaped rock up there once upon a time until
gold in it was found and the pumpkin was pretty literally
carved up and taken apart. This is was an old gold
mine, now the Gold Museum.
This solid chunk of gold is about 220.3 kg and it��s
worth 8 million US dollars today.
So why didn��t European explorers stay and dig for
gold so many hundreds of years ago? Because no one
could find where it was buried.
Then sometime closer to the 20th century when railroad
construction brought workers into the area, the workers
would eat their lunch and wash their lunch boxes in
the river. And they found specks of gold. Searching
upstream, they found that there was gold in these
mountains.
The gold rush brought a lot of people to this region
of the island, but eventually the mines were exhausted
and closed in the 1980��s.
This is Jiufen, the town next to Jinguashi. It was
also a mining town, and later the inspiration of many,
many movies. It��s a really romantic kind of place
because of the lanterns, the view, the fog, the sea,
the rain�K There are lots of tasty snacks here, too.
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, also known
for the gold rush at one point, but there isn��t a
museum as interactive, as memorable and as educational
as this one. This is my second here and I still find
it interesting. You should come!
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