Blogs from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Asia - page 5

Wednesday, 18th May 2011 Start >> Central Park >> Kaohsiung 85 >> Kaohsiung History Museum >> Kaohsiung Film Archives >> Love River >> Love River Jetty >> Cijin Island >> Old Sze Chuan Restaurant >>End We started Day 5 of our > at Central Park, which was about 10 minutes walk from where we stayed. Effectively, this was a huge open space in the heart of downtown Kaohsiung where the urban spotlight is located. Central Park station was itself an attraction of its own flanked by tastefully decorated sunflowers at the entrances of the station. From the ticket office, we purchased our MRT Pass which gave us 2 days of unlimited travel on the Kaohsiung Metro. Opened in March 2008 to much fanfare, the slick system currently operated on 2 burgeoning lines with major int... read more

(pronounced "shin yien qwhy lu")... or Happy Chinese New Year! Chinese New Year began on February 2nd and lasted for 2 weeks. All of the schools are off during this time, so most of the foreign teachers went on vacation. If I were to compare Chinese New Year with a holiday in the States, it would be like Thanksgiving (only without the football and with a whole lot of fireworks instead). It is also like Thanksgiving in that ticket prices to fly anywhere are super expensive. Because of this, I decided to stay in Kaohsiung for the holidays. I did some things in and around Kaoshiung... my sushi friends taught me how to roll my own vegetarian sushi and I went with Marco and several of his friends to an outlet mall called E DA. On ... read more

Sorry it has been a few months since I've blogged, but life in Kaohsiung has pretty much been same old same old with a few exceptions. Last month we celebrated the Moon Festival. This is a holiday that everyone has off from school and work and it is a day to have a bbq with family and friends, eat pomelos and look at the moon. That day there were many people lining the streets with their small grills barbecuing with co workers outside their shops and with family outside their apartment buildings. Since the holiday was on a Wednesday, Marco and his employees at the tea shop decided to have their barbecue on Tuesday after they had closed up the shop. That afternoon I decided to make a stop at Costco... big mistake. As soon as ... read more

A few of my favorite spots in Kaohsiung- Monkey Mountain and the Lotus Pond... read more

's Avonds is de feestelijke huldiging. Ons prijzengeld, 20.000 Taiwanese dollars, ongeveer € 600, schenken we aan een goed doel: de mensen in Zuid-Taiwan die onlangs getroffen zijn door overstromingen. We staan met z'n allen op het podium en krijgen een glazen trofee en mooie glazen medailles. Uitgereikt door onze eigen burgemeester Jan van Zanen. Het is een groot feest, de hele huldiging. Het ene team gaat nog meer uit z'n dak dan het andere. We zijn nu koffers aan het pakken en door de vele t-shirts die we gekregen hebben en de vele souvenirs, krijgen we onze koffers niet meer dicht. Henny loopt rond om op de koffers te gaan zitten. Vanmiddag volgt een rondtour door Kaohsiung en dezelfde bus brengt ons naar het vliegveld. We gaan ervan uit dat ook op Schiphol een cameraploeg ... read more