Top Things to do in Anping
What to do and see in Anping, Tainan: The Best Things to do
Discover the best top things to do in Anping, Taiwan including Taiwan Warship Museum, Hai Shan Pai le Di, Sunset Platform, Anping Fort (Anping gubao), Anping Canal Park, Anping Tree House, An'png Kaitai Tianhou Palace, National Anping Harbor Historic Park, Anping Oyster Lime Kiln Cultural Center, Anping Guanyinting.
Restaurants in Anping
1. Taiwan Warship Museum
2. Hai Shan Pai le Di
3. Sunset Platform
4. Anping Fort (Anping gubao)
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4.0 based on 658 reviews
Reviewed By ivanao480
The first til the fourth picture is inside the museum one That white building is allowed to go up The entrance fee for anping fort is 50nt If you have tainan residence card it's free Ps: inside museum can't bring beverage or food
5. Anping Canal Park
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4.0 based on 4 reviews
6. Anping Tree House
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4.0 based on 1,007 reviews
Reviewed By OrderintheHouse
In January 2020 my wife and I included a 6 night Wendy Wu private tour of Taiwan as part of our 18 day Asian trip we arranged to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. Our tour took in Taipei, Taroko Gorge, Sun Moon Lake, Tainan and Kaohsiung. While in Tainan we visited notable attractions and none better than the former Tait and Co Merchant House incorporating the Anping Tree House, located in the historic Anping precinct. Before offering a review on the Anping Tree House let me start by reviewing the former Tait and Co Merchant House which is next door to the Tree House and all part of the overall attraction package. This grand building was built in 1867 by British merchant James Tait who was engaged in the tea export business, insurance and banking. The building, a south-facing two storey structure with a central main staircase, demonstrates a fusion of both Eastern and Western architectural styles. Both storeys have a succession of arches circulating east, west and south and the top storey white-walled verandah has a green-glazed vase-shaped rail. Inside on the ground floor is an excellent museum, comprising several display rooms providing an impressive exhibition explaining the origin of merchant houses, trade shipping routes and trading models with a different theme room by room. One of the best rooms visited was the one with the excellent display of the early tea merchants and how they manufactured and graded and traded Formosa Oolong Tea. As an avid lover of all things tea I found this particularly impressive. Another room was set up as a period dining room setting. Then there were many interesting items of yesteryear on display. For example, it was great to marvel at an old Corona typewriter, a novel 19th century mechanical calculator and classic weighing scales, allowing us to appreciate the huge technological advances the world has made in making these commodities simpler and easier to use today. There was even an exhibit of a nice set of Japanese gold coins from the period of 1603 to 1867. Our tour itinerary unfortunately did not include a visit to the upper storey wax museum using wax figures to display scenes of early life in Taiwan, which was a pity. From the Merchant House we headed next door to the truly amazing Anping Tree House. What can I say – absolutely awesome to see before our very eyes the invasive power of the banyan tree when a building is left abandoned. The trees and their roots have over many years successfully strangled and just about suffocated the old house. This was an amazing sight and a demonstration of the wonders of Mother Nature. The derelict building was the former warehouse for Tait and Co. During the Japanese period of occupation of Taiwan (between 1895 and 1945), it was used to store salt for the Anping Branch of the Japanese Salt Corporation. After the War it became the warehouse for the Taiwan Salt Corporation for a time, but then lay empty for many years when the banyan trees became the buildings new tenants forming a living banyan roof and walls of banyan roots. The complex was renovated to include raised wooden paths and an overhead steel walkway to enable tourists to enjoy this rather unique attraction today. A brochure available at the Tree House aptly describes the banyan trees of the Anping Tree House. They belong to an invasive species that aggressively expands its territory and that the high exclusivity of the banyan ensures other epiphytic plants (any plant that grows upon another plant or object merely for physical support) will not encroach on their territory. It goes on to say that banyan trees thrive in humid places because their aerial roots are capable of absorbing moisture directly from the air. Roots of these trees secrete an acid that dissolves limestone, making them ideally suited to rocky environments. Thus the banyan trees found it very easy to cling to the brick walls of the building which were laid with a special mortar made of ground oyster shell, syrup and glutinous rice. We enjoyed our thirty minute walk around the building seeing how the banyan tree roots have successfully blended into the building walls and the immense level of tree strangulation of the building that had taken place over time. It was well worth taking the stairs to the overhead steel walkway to get even better views of this amazing phenomenon. This was a terrific place to visit, if nothing else because it represented something different from the usual temples and historic monuments or physical landforms such as rivers, lakes and mountains that we routinely visit in the course of our travels. As such, it is a highly recommended attraction to be included on any Taiwan touring itinerary.
