Ballarat - New Gold Mountain

The typical farm sceen in my mind

Ballarat - Sovereign Hill (Theme park)

Tourists and kids who want to become rich (searching gold in the small drain)

The Role Play for the local elementary school
Chinese region in the theme park

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After great ocean road, we visited Ballart which is also called New Gold Mountain (新金山).

It can be compared with San Francisco called Old Gold Mountain (舊金山).

However, there is no gold in this two city, and they become another style cities now.

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The entrance fee for the Sovereign Hill is kindly expensive, it is 30 AUD for students....

But I think it is worth to visit one time.

In Taiwan, we also have the gold museum in Jio Feng(九份), Jing Gua Se(金瓜石) to show the former mining life there.

I think both of these two places having their specialities.

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In Ballarat, everything is reviving old customs.

You will think you go into the space tunnel to go back to the 19th centuries.

Sellers, houses, and even animals look so convinceable, it just told that: yes, you're in the 19th century!

I thought the kids who can really get a great understanding after series activities.

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Chinese from Mainland or another regions in the world headed to the hot spots of gold mines hundred years ago.

They build their new home there, and there are also many unfair happening on them.

I think we really need to know the history.

For example, Chinese always need to pay more tax than the others.

And they have to live in a inferior regions too.

It let me remind the report I wrote in the university which is about the foreign Chinese.

We have to always feel contended all the time :)