2 April 2011
Out and about in Kaohsiung
Its quite hot here, 28C, the streets are very wide and neat, and its a long way between subway stations.
Time to find where the people are at.
I did finally find an electronics megastore kind of place, prices were high though, I suspect Australia is cheaper! Also there werent really any crazy Taiwanese market only things I could recognise, Hong Kong seems to have a lot more of that kind of stuff.
My hotel is very flash, with someone playing a grand piano, a day spa, a pool etc. The bed is as hard as a rock, far harder than any I slept on in Japan.
Enough chat, onto the pics.
This is the view out of my hotel window, complete with water tower.
Nearby theres an 'international fair' but they were just setting up, seems to be mainly Japanese, these milk maids were happy to pose for photos. In fact they insisted.
The subway here is brand new, and all the stations are impressive, living works of art or something equally as pretentious. Still I can appreciate it because im that sort of fool.
I spotted a line of people waiting under a marquee with a sign with a bus on it. I honestly had no idea where it was going the only English word on the sign was 'free'. So I joined the line. Interesting decorations on the inside of the bus, I swear it was no warmer than 10 degrees inside, everyone was shivering.
The bus went to the 'dream mall', apparently the biggest in east asia, whatever that means. It is pretty huge and has a mega food area with a shop claiming to have made the best beef noodles at the 2009 competition.
Whilst they werent too bad, the bowl I had in Taipei was nicer, at least to me. But I was absolutely starving at this point.
On top of the 12 floor Shopping mall is a huge ferris wheel. I went on a huge one in Yokohama so why not Kaohsiung?
This one is hello kitty themed, as you can see, its been my life long dream to share a ferris wheel with Hello Kitty.
The view however, despite the pollution, was great!
More view.
Still more view.
Last one of the god damn view.
When I walked outside, this drove past. I have absolutely no idea what or why!
This is another of the fancy train stations, apparently this is the best one as I see it on all sorts of promotional material for the city.