A weekend in Kaohsiung...

I was invited to visit my friend Allens family in Kaohsiung in south of taiwan...I took the cab to MRT...we were still on Daxue road and the taximeter showed 105...it was alot of traffic...
Rush hour everyday, alot of scooters and cars...
Running around, trying to find Allen, we passed by each other, but met up at Taizhong...
I bought some honey cake for Allens family, it is their favorite...
Entertainment at the MRT station in Kaohsiung...
And a nice waterfall...
Near a place called Beer garden they had alot of entertainment, this guy sang Adele s, "fire to the rain", super good...
We continued to check out Barcode...similar to the one in Taipei...
Not that many people though...
And some MC gang showing their vehicles...
This is a nice restaurant place in Kaohsiung, with many fancy names...
We went to this burger bar not far from the city center...
I tried this cider...
They showed the Olympics...
I had a cheese burger with extra cheese...it was good...
We were picked up by Allens mom after the bar visit...
And went to their blocks...in south of kaohsiung...
Were we drak more beer and ate super good cheese...
I got an appartment by myself...it was fun...
With alot of wooden furnitures...
Some things that the old owners didnt want to keep...
This is allen as a kid, super cute...
We watched the olympics....at allens place...
And drank this Czech beer...probabl one of my new favorites...
Allen also showed my some military photos...
And I got some equpiment, which made it feel like i lived in a hotel...
Breakfast...same nice cheese and some tomato...
And ice tea...
This is their car...a Nissan...
Driving in Kaohsiung makes it feel like u are in a tropicla climate (whish it is) with palm trees etc...
Is it green or red? sometimes driving in taiwan can be confusing...
We went south of Kaohsiung to a local fish market...
And to take the ferry...
...to this island...
...called Xiao luiqui...
There was alot of water in the river, due to typhoon...Kaohsiung city can be seen in the horizon...
We saw some "famous" fish stand...with pics from when famous people passed by...
And we god Haomapai...(number cards)...for the ferry...
A small ferry...alot of waves on the ocean...
We could see the swedish female football team meetingthe french team...
French was in the lead...when someone changed channel...
Some statues were taken by boat to the island...
Seems like a symbol of taiwan...I have seen them many times before...
There were many people on the boat...
Some aboriginal was singing on the TV...
They were famous I was told...
This is the first sight of the island...
The ferry leaves about 2 times per hour or something...
Its kind of touristic, even though they dont promot the island so much...I guess most people here are from Kaohsiung...we were recommended to rent a scooter...
We thought about rentingbikes, but it was super warm...so we decided to be lasy...
Just like the east coast, no one wears helmet here...we were not even offered helmet...
Its rare to see cars...mostly scooters...like green island...
They had many siteson the island...that was smaller than green island...it might have taken 0.5-1 hour to drive around...
1 or 2 7-11 were spotted...
And scooters everywhere...
We went to eat local food...which means seafood...
This seemed to be some pork though...
But the rest was Tuna and prawns etc...
It was super good...
And we went to drink...and I had local mango smoothie...
Tourist groups were everywhere...just like on Green island, it is common that one gets a guide and some trips included in the hotel...
This Vase rock is one of the most famous things from this island...
It had a history...and many other cliffs had funny names, just like on green island...
Now one could walk to the rock..but some times if is surrounded by water...
Alot of people were diving around it...
We also went to some caves...where it said that we could drink the water...
Given that people never washed their feet in it...etc...it looked kind of dirty...
Most cliffs here were corals...
And they had alot of cliffs...
And also miltary bunkers...
And many places called "ecological zones"...due to its unique fauna...
And over 80 temples...(maybe 84)...which makes it the most temple dense place in taiwan, or on earth...they pray alot for good weather...
We saw even more mushroom shaped cliffs...
I had my new flipflops, so I could easily walk in the water...

Allen walked barefeet....
...and made a jump...
...while I was climbing the cliffs...
We saw this interesting fella, with its house...
And cool pattern in the rocks...
Then we continied with the scooter...feeling like we were on a medeterainian island...
And we bought this ticket, to see the sites on the island...
The sunset is said to be super nice from here...

One of the 2 light houses on the island...but hard to see the view from the mountain where it was situated...due to the forrest...
And we also saw a puppet show...
And one of the most famous beaches on the island...
Many divers were here...
They are promoting electrical scooters...that makes me happy...
At the ferry they were selling puke from swallows...kind of wierd...they mix it with sugar and water and drink it...
I bought this crackers...it was with seaweed...
On the way back, we saw Korea vs Denmark on badminton...
And the fish market had expanded...to the street...
Alot of big fishes...so nice...
Later we went to Kaohsiung downtown...I saw this ferriswheel...near ikea...
We went to a sky skraper which had many restaruatns, it was the one I saw the night before...
45 floors...and we were heading to the top...
To this nice steak house...
And a fantastic view...
and a super nice salad buffet...
This is a blur image of kaohsiund downtown...
I had a filet mignon...
And alot of desserts...
This is Allens mother...super nice lady...and his Aunt to the right...also a favorite...
Here is the view from Allens house...towards the Kaohsung international airport...
The day after we were heading north...
This old building use to be the highest building in Kaohsung...
Fumes from a car...people say that if i had in this picture to the police I can get money ( I assume i need the registration sign as well...atleast this workds for scooters...)
Still feeling like driving in a jungle...
This was the destination of the day...
Some munk from Shanghai, starte a fund to raise money...
...to build this...
A high budha ona stutue...some one said its the highest in asia...jsut like the thai ppl said in bangkok, and the buthan people in Thimphu...
Alot of cars were here...it was hard to find somewhere to park...
They finaly removedsome cones so that we could leave the car...
This are listsof donators...super many...and this place has alot of money I was told due to the donators...
Chen...something...same name as allens mother...but its not her...
Here is some swedish funding...
Here is the chnese munk...who raised the fund...
With different people, posing...
This is the whole area...super big...reminded me of an american cementary in europe...
They also had nice stores...
And the compulsory starbucks and 7-11...
EAch building has some kind of activity inside...as including the pyramid at the end...
I donated 1 NT, maybe my name will be listed some time, on those stone walls...
They had alot of rooms and places for the munk who started to build this place...
A lego miniature of the temple...
It was super hot to walk here...it was good that they had AC inside...
In here they had a white jade stature of Buddha, and Buddhas tooth...there are only 3 in theworld, one tooth is in china, one on Sri lanka, and one here...we asked how they could guarantee that it really was budhas...they jsut said, that some people recorded its position...since it wa taken from tibet to here...
I also bought  a fortune cookie...more like a "kinder surprise", with this message from the Shanghai munk...
And we went to some kind of museum inside the pyramid...
My flipflop made alot of noise, when walking...
It said that LUmbini was in india...but its in Nepal..atleast according to the map I saw in Kathmandu last year..and what they nepalese people told me...
This is how the buddhism spread around in asia...
This is some necklace...I also got from asia...
And here are places that was supported by the fund...mostly earthquake...but also the 9-11 attack in use...by some reason...I wonder why they didnt support africa more than USA...that atleast are in bigger need for money..maybe it is due to political reasons...
Here is the nice view of the temple...reminded me of Shen kai shek memorial hall in taipei...
It seems like on ecan go up in the Buddha statue...but im not sure...
Some last pose before heading back...
So cool..Wu Bai cellphone case...(a famous Taiwanese singer...)
Many tourist groups were walking around here...
Her one can see the 85 floor building, that use to be the highest in taiwan...
When we came back, we were served Taiwanese food...super nice...
They had a watch that always went to fast...it was an old wedding gift...
Allens mom in the kitchen...
We took HSR back again...it took about 90 minutes...
Then i took the light rail back to campus...
The same system as the local trains in taiwan...
Kind of new...i think about 6 month old train system...
The green line is the light rail...
I should bo by this train more often...it was fun...

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