Taiwan Trip Day 3 - Qijing or Cijin Island - Walking around the island

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The ferry took only about 5 mins to reach Cijin Island from Kaoshiung. The ferry has frequent services between the two islands. I think is about every 5 to 10 mins.

On arrival we could see some beautiful colonial building which is now the port for Cijin Island. There's a tourist office on the left in the above photo. You can collect a map or any information about the island from this office.


We could see a lot of bicycles for rental. Some bicycles are built for four. Looked like a lot of fun. Wish my two sons were with me then we could rent the bikes for four.

If you do not want to cycle, you can ride on the trishaws or cabs. But we choose to just walked around the town. Only half of this island are mainly for tourists, etc while the other half are mainly residential buildings.



There's a chinese temple on the island too.





Lots of seafood stalls and restaurants on this island too.

Taiwan Trip Day 3 - Qijing or Cijin Island - Taking the ferry

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On day 3 of our Taiwan Trip, we decided to visit Cijin Island after a sumptous buffet breakfast in the hotel.

We took MRT from Kaoshiung MRT to Sizihwan MRT Station. From Sizihwan MRT Station to the ferry terminal is about 10 minutes. Look at the map and directions on which is the best exit to go to Gushan Ferry Pier.



Once we exited from the MRT Station, there were many signboards to direct us to the Gushan Ferry Pier. You might encountered some bicycles shop owners asking you to rent their bicycles. It is not necessary to rent from them cause you can always rent from the island itself. But if you choose to rent from them, you can cycle to the ferry pier and cycled into the ferry to go across the island.



Finally after a short walk, we saw the ferry terminal.

We need to slot NT15 into the box at the gate to enter the ferry. The fares for adults are NT15, Students NT12, senior citizen aged above 65 and small kids are NT8, Motorbikes are NT20 while bicycles goes in free on the ferry. Residents of Cijing Island rides free on the ferry.

Passengers take the upper deck while vehicles take the lower deck.







Short videos of the ferry and the surrounding scenery.

Day 2 Night - Kaoshiung - Liuhe Night Market

After admiring the dome of light, we exit the Formosa Boulevard MRT Station to visit the nearby famous Liuhe Night Market. At the Formosa Boulevard MRT Station, there were several exits. The exit nearer to Liuhe Night Market was EXIT 11 but we had to climb several stairs up so we used EXIT 4 with escalators to go up to the main road and from there we followed the directions on the signboard which direct us to Liuhe Night Market. It was just across the road from EXIT 4.


You just have to visit the night market to feel the atmosphere and also to try the streets food.








This is the stall we are avoiding, the stall selling stinky or smelly tofu, it's really very stinking hahaha.

After a long day out, we finally decided to return our hotel via the MRT. This is EXIT 11 near the night market, we walked down several stairs down(walking down is easier than climbing up the stairs). By this time, my legs were very aching and painful after a long day out.

Some short videos showing the night market.

Stall selling some ice cream wrapped in popiah (thin paper-like crepe ).

Taiwan Trip Day 2 - Formosa Boulevard MRT Station - Dome of Light

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A must visit MRT Station at Kaoshiung Taiwan.

Situated at the Kaohsiung MRT transfer station for the Red Line and Orange Line (Formosa Boulevard Station), the Dome of Light was created by renowned artist Narcissus Quagliata. The dome is the world's largest public art installation made from individual pieces of coloured glass.

The dome tells the story of human life in four chronologically arranged themes: Water: The Womb of Life; Earth: Prosperity and Growth; Light: The Creative Spirit; and Fire: Destruction and Rebirth, with an overall message of love and tolerance.

A short video showing the art installation. It is really very big and beautiful.

Taiwan Trip Day 2 - Kaoshiung - Sanduo Shopping District

After dumping our bags, we headed for lunch. Saw many restaurants opposite Kaoshiung MRT Station.

We settled for a nice Japanese Restaurant for our lunch.

I guess it was past lunch time, there weren't much customers in the restaurant. It was almost 3 pm.




Free refill of rice and soup were available at self service.

Hubby had Japanese curry rice with pork chop.

I cant remember what I had, I think it is chicken.

The meal comes with drink and dessert.

We took the MRT from Kaoshiung MRT Station to Sanduo Shopping District. There were a lot of malls and shops there too but we did not find anything we like. The things sold in malls were almost the same price of what we can find in Singapore.

From Sanduo MRT Station, I could see the highest building in Kaoshiung. That is the Tuntex Sky Building. We did not walked to the building.

Went into Sogo Shopping Mall, wow they had I think 17 floors, and we went to every floor upto the tenth floor and almost every floor were shopping areas. Did not bother to go higher than 10th, so we took the lift down and walked along the streets.

Taiwan Trip Day 2 - Checking into hotel in Kaoshiung

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Not sure if we choose the correct hotel or not but there dont seems to be any hotel near zuoying HSR/MRT Station. Seems like most hotels are located near Kaoshiung MRT Station, so we choose King's Town Hotel near Kaoshiung MRT Station.

The hotel looked very cozy and the price is reasonable but problem is accessing the hotel from Kaoshiung MRT Station we need to cross over the railway track via a bridge.

There's only one exit from Kaoshiung MRT Station and once we exit, we can see the railway station on our right. We need to go into the railway station to cross over the railway tracks via a bridge but we need to pay NT6 (S$0.25) just to use the bridge.

So we got the tickets from the information counter. Best if you can speak mandarin otherwise you need to find someone to translate for you.

So we just show our tickets to the person in charge at the entrance of the bridge, he wont collect the tickets from us, only another person at the end of the bridge will collect the tickets from us once we exit the bridge.

There's a lot of people using the bridge but most of them will exit somewhere in the middle of the bridge to take the conventional (slow) trains to Taipei or some other towns.

This is the end of the bridge to our hotel at Jiouru Road.

From our hotel room window, I took photo of the railway station and the bridge and the Kaoshiung MRT station at the top left hand corner. Everyday we need to cross the bridge to access to the MRT station from our hotel.

Once we check into our hotel, the hotel will issue two ways platform cards each time we want to use the bridge so we dont have to pay any charges to use the bridge.

The other end of the railway station facing our hotel.

This is King's Town Hotel where we will stay for 2 nights. The hotel staff are very friendly and helpful and our stay comes with daily buffet breakfast.

The hotel room looked cozy and the bed very comfortable. I had good night sleep maybe it was because I was so tired.



The hotel's lobby.