RV Trip Advisor (Day 5)

Yunlin Towel Factory 云林蛋糕毛巾咖啡馆 

Rating: 4.0 stars ★★★★☆

The moment we alighted from the bus, we were greeted by a lady in something like school uniform.Following that, she explained to us how we can choose a good towel. Afterwards, we proceeded into the factory and we saw a lady folding a towel in the shape of a dumpling. Have you wondered how they could fold a towel into a triangular shape? According to the lady that was leading us, she can actually produce 300 folded towels per day! When a festival comes, they would fold towels related to the festivals so there are limited-time products. 

There are also DIY classes that teach us how to make our towels into different objects such as dogs! The instructors patiently explained to us how to fold the towel one step followed by another and helped us whenever we needed their help. Our dogs are all very cute and we were surprise at the fact that we actually folded the dogs nicely!

This the place you should come if u want to know the secret of folding a ordinary towel into beautiful masterpieces! 

Our classmates with their "dogs"! ^.^

Yunlin Puppet theatre 云林布袋戏馆 

Rating: 3.0 stars ★★★☆☆

We now arrived at Yunlin Puppet theatre which is located opposite a then fire station.One of the things that people often ignored is that the building was once a government house in the county during the Japanese colonization. 

 Entrance of the puppet theatre

The building consists of both western and eastern elements.As referred to the tour guide, the Japanese architects built this building after studying in Europe during the Meiji revolution. Many of these similar buildings were constructed during that time in Taiwan,as an experiment,to test out whether the building structure was suitable to build in Japan.

This building was originally consists a prison, but later changed into a puppet theatre.

A preserved jail cell in the puppet theatre

Inside the puppet theatre, there are a lot of puppets in different styles and were created by different famous puppet producers and actors.

Picture of puppets

We then went for a show on the top floor. It was done by only one puppeteer and his musician.The language used in puppet show is suppose to be in Hokkien,this is quite difficult for us to understand as most of us do not use Hokkien to communicate with each other.  

Puppeteer explaining the different types of puppets