Royal Lees Kaohsiung
No.105 Wu-Fu First Road Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Home in Taiwan....
... the leaders yelling into megaphones so their groups of 50+ tourists can hear and know where to go, and all the "chatting" tourists yelling to each other...even though they are standing 2ft apart! If you've ever been to China, you know what I mean! haha.
A month of eating peanut pancakes, deep fried yum, and delicious soups makes us want to stay here forever!! Unfortunately...we must leave. 5:30am, we wake up...finish packing...no breakfast today. Baby picks ...
Restful harbor and spices
... stop number x on their prescribed vacation itinerary we presumed.
Sitting some 150ft above the mouth of Kaohsiung harbor the consulate provides both a great location for watching giant container ships sail through the tiny mouth of the harbor and an opportunity to reflect on our arrival in the country earlier that day.
An excellent exhibition at the Consulate details the role of Taiwan, the southern Spice Islands (now part of Indonesia) and ...
Four Temples and a Consulate
... then across one bridge, back up the promenade, and across the next bridge. It was dark by this point, and the lights on the river were lovely. From the river, we walked down the main boulevard, to the “tourist” street market. Many things, including food, were for sale, but we weren’t feeling like fried seafood or coagulated pig’s blood, so we walked to a small café along the side street for dinner. Then back to the hotel to play a game of story cubes, and sleep. ...
Xin Nian Kaui Le!
... of some sort and are usually referred by the ministry of social services. While is may sound sad, these kids are actually pretty fortunate. They get lots of extracurricular classes like music and theatre and they get to go to Europe and other places in the summer for different cultural camps. They all seemed very happy and Miao Ming says they are really well behaved and don't have a lot of behavioral problems that you might expect coming from the kind ...
First "relaxing" weekend
... are 3 or 4 ferries running all day long, so the the ride over to Cijin was less than 5 minutes too, so it only took me about a half an hour to get to my chosen destination!
The place is super busy, a lot of the locals come here for the beach as well as the fresh and dried seafood. It is a seafood mecca here, which is perhaps why it is one of the first places I wanted to visit! It was founded by fishermen that had been blown off course by ...



