The night we spent in Kaohsiung, we stayed in the Splendor Kaohsiung, a hotel located in the tallest building in Kaohsiung, 2nd tallest in Taiwan. It's called the 85 Sky Tower because well, it has 85 floors. Our hotel room was on the 63rd floor and in the morning we went up to the observation deck on the 75th floor. Here's a photo from the deck of Kaohsiung city.
In the morning we visited a famous monastery in Taiwan, Foguangshan ( 佛光山). It covers a huge area in Kaohsiung, here i am posing with the renowned Great Buddha Land in one of the gardens.
We took about 30-40 minutes to walk to this Main Shrine....yes it's that big inside there! There is even a university in this monastery and a hostel as well.
The Buddha sitting inside the Main Shrine
This is the Five Hundred Arhats Garden, i believe there are 500 statues surrounding this square, part of them behind me in this photo. Actually the purpose of this photo was to capture the 3 mottos promoted by Foguangshan to achieve enlightenment. It's a simple 3-step method : Do good things, Speak good words and Think good thoughts.
This is the Five Cents Driftwood, a famous restaurant in Taiwan. Not famous for its food, but for its architectural designs. I believe there are 4-5 branches in Taiwan, but we went to the first flagship shop near Tainan.
The shop is built using trees as its structure, and consists of mostly recycled materials like planks and seashells. The toilets gained a lot of attention as well, with its wooden doors and the Easter Island statues for a tap, where u turn on the water outlet, and water gushes out from the statues' mouths....haha...
After lunch, we headed to 安平區 near Tainan. We walked at the old street for finger foods and followed by this visit to Fort Zeelandia (安平古堡), the only standing Western-style castle in Taiwan.
We had an early day...checking into our hotel for the night...a recreational farm in the rural areas of Tainan. After checking in, we went hiking in the small hill behind the farm, looking at the vegetables and fruit trees, also trying out the flying fox chair up on the hill and finally going up the observation deck at around 200-300 m high.
At the farm, there was also a spa in the garden plus a hot spring....but after having prior experiences in Japan and Korea, i decided to give it a miss. Ohhh...there were also free roaming pigs and chickens in this farm. At night, when we lit up the fire crackers, the chickens were scared silly they almost ran out of the farm!
The owners of the farm cooked us a home-cooked meal in the dining hall. Later they also thought us how to make animal shape using leaves. Here's my giraffe!
The night we spent in Kaohsiung, we stayed in the Splendor Kaohsiung, a hotel located in the tallest building in Kaohsiung, 2nd tallest in Taiwan. It's called the 85 Sky Tower because well, it has 85 floors. Our hotel room was on the 63rd floor and in the morning we went up to the observation deck on the 75th floor. Here's a photo from the deck of Kaohsiung city.
In the morning we visited a famous monastery in Taiwan, Foguangshan ( 佛光山). It covers a huge area in Kaohsiung, here i am posing with the renowned Great Buddha Land in one of the gardens.
We took about 30-40 minutes to walk to this Main Shrine....yes it's that big inside there! There is even a university in this monastery and a hostel as well.
The Buddha sitting inside the Main Shrine
This is the Five Hundred Arhats Garden, i believe there are 500 statues surrounding this square, part of them behind me in this photo. Actually the purpose of this photo was to capture the 3 mottos promoted by Foguangshan to achieve enlightenment. It's a simple 3-step method : Do good things, Speak good words and Think good thoughts.
This is the Five Cents Driftwood, a famous restaurant in Taiwan. Not famous for its food, but for its architectural designs. I believe there are 4-5 branches in Taiwan, but we went to the first flagship shop near Tainan.
The shop is built using trees as its structure, and consists of mostly recycled materials like planks and seashells. The toilets gained a lot of attention as well, with its wooden doors and the Easter Island statues for a tap, where u turn on the water outlet, and water gushes out from the statues' mouths....haha...
After lunch, we headed to 安平區 near Tainan. We walked at the old street for finger foods and followed by this visit to Fort Zeelandia (安平古堡), the only standing Western-style castle in Taiwan.
We had an early day...checking into our hotel for the night...a recreational farm in the rural areas of Tainan. After checking in, we went hiking in the small hill behind the farm, looking at the vegetables and fruit trees, also trying out the flying fox chair up on the hill and finally going up the observation deck at around 200-300 m high.
At the farm, there was also a spa in the garden plus a hot spring....but after having prior experiences in Japan and Korea, i decided to give it a miss. Ohhh...there were also free roaming pigs and chickens in this farm. At night, when we lit up the fire crackers, the chickens were scared silly they almost ran out of the farm!
The owners of the farm cooked us a home-cooked meal in the dining hall. Later they also thought us how to make animal shape using leaves. Here's my giraffe!
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