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Travel stories and photos from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 20 posts.
#Review Final post about #Kaohsiung In general... It's a strange city. It perfectly embodies what provincial cities in Taiwan look like - chaotic, jumping from skyscrapers to shacks, with a bunch of moped riders racing on roads without sidewalks, leading to…
#Gaoxiong The only provincial entertainment in the city is to take some obscure anime-themed ferry and sail across the strait to an island where... Well, it's basically a village. Sometimes with wooden houses that strongly resemble those in Eastern Europe.…
#Gaoxiong Taiwanese social housing ♥️ Soviet-style housing development
#Gaoxiong will definitely be the sponsor of my architectural schizophrenia or depression. Urbanists shouldn't be allowed here, otherwise we'll have to demolish half the city.
#Gaoxiong When I say that the most laid-back religion is in China/Taiwan, and people don't believe me, I just show them these videos. Here in the temple, old men might gather to sing karaoke, there might be children's attractions, or a machine that…
#Gaoxiong The "Lotus Lake" is a very unusual place in Gaoxiong. Along the entire water perimeter, there are several large temples, some of which are quite... Hmm, unusual. Music is playing everywhere, birds are flying, and overall, there's a sense of…
#Kaohsiung It's surprising how all of Asia seems to converge on the mass production of high-rise residential buildings. These aren't exactly prefabricated housing units, but the feeling is pretty much the same. This is what many new residential areas in…
#Gaoxiong And in Taiwan, they're not shy about blasting top-tier music throughout the entire neighborhood from temple speakers.
#Gaoxiong Temples in Taiwan are such an ordinary thing that after a while, you simply stop paying attention to them, perceiving them as just part of the city's landscape. But if you think about it, the temples here are the most beautiful in Asia! No other…
#Taipei #Kaohsiung Someone once asked me to talk about food. As it turned out, in Taiwan, I mostly indulged in Japanese and hotpot. Everything here is cooked excellently, especially the ramen. And with hotpot, you can eat as much meat as you want for around…
#Gaoxiong Near the city is "Monkey Mountain". The name here is literal - macaques periodically raid the city. Here's one monkey casually crossing the road.
#Gaoxiong While walking further, we found a residential area with balconies at the houses that are atypical for Taiwan with my friend. I don't know about you, but to me, the elements seemed to be taken from Mediterranean architecture.
#Gaoxiong This is what the poorest areas of the city look like. Literally, there can be new skyscrapers just a kilometre away.
#Kaohsiung The 85 Sky Tower, built during Taiwan's economic boom in the 90s, is probably the main symbol of Kaohsiung. A very unusual structure for us, but quite understandable to the Chinese - in the form of an "arch", it symbolizes height and wealth.…
#Kaohsiung In Taiwan in general, and Kaohsiung in particular, there is a lot of questionable architecture. Some would call it cyberpunk, others simply a perversion of human dignity. One such architectural "project" is the "Nobel Building" residential…
#Gaoxiong A city park on the site of the old freight railway station. A cool atmosphere, and lots of people on weekends. You can take a ride on a mini-Shinkansen and... a coal freight train as cargo?😅
#Gaoxiong In 2024, the LRT ring line (a tram-like system) was finally fully opened in Gaoxiong. The route runs through the entire old part of Gaoxiong, and partially reuses the industrial railway tracks at the site of the old port station. After nearly 10…
#Gaoxiong Gaoxiong is home to Taiwan's main cargo port, through which more than half of all maritime goods pass. Recently, the area has been reimagined and partially converted into an entertainment venue. Just in 2021, a concert hall (the white structure in…
#Gaoxiong For the first time, my impressions after arriving from the capital, Taipei - the city... It's very strange. It's clearly closer to #Taichung (there was a series of posts about it), but because of the ocean, it feels even more like a southern resort…
Across the plains and fields, we're taking the Shinkansen to #Kaohsiung, Taiwan 🇹🇼 The third-largest city in the country, with a population of 2.7 million.