Kaohsiung & cool lake
Hello Sunshines!
After embarking on a train journey of 3 hours that revolved around either standing up or sitting on the floor, we left Damien after 2 hours as he was to head south to his next destination and we headed north to Kaohsiung. We get to the train station at like 5 pm and headed to one hotel that our guidebook suggested was a “2” on a scale of 1-10 and it was about double what we wanted to spend so we headed to this hostel which ended up being closed. Then we found the Atami. Yes, almost the same name, yet very different.
It was in our price range, and it looked clean. And the room looked like it belonged in Vegas. An entire wall of mirrors. And, let’s say, 2 “sketchy” channels on the tube. On free TV. Even Vegas doesn’t offer that – well, the places I’ve stayed, anyway. So, with that in mind, we decided to stay 3 nights! Okay, that’s not the reason but it makes for more interesting television…
Anyway, this city was the first time we ran into the drink/internet deal. Since most internet cafes are geared towards gamers, people stay in an internet cafe for hours on end. So they have this deal – we’ll give you cheap internet as long as you buy a drink. Which works out fine if: 1) you’re thirsty 2) you’re going to be there a long time since the drinks are kind of expensive. Anyway, after wandering to numerous internet cafes we just gave up, bought the drink and stayed a few hours.
The main reason we wanted to come to Kaohsiung was to see Lotus Lake. So we caught the train 1 stop up from Kaohsiung and there it was. Confucius everywhere. Dragons and bright colors on all these cool temples plus tons of people fishing and actually catching stuff! John was in picture heaven. Plus we ran into some kind of festival deal. Which seem to be everywhere. I don’t know if it’s the time of the year or if it’s just luck. Unfortunately we never have any idea what the festival is all about and even if we had someone explain it, it probably wouldn’t make any sense anyway. But all we know is it’s really cool and beautiful. And really, what more can you ask for?
Tags: RTW Trip, Taiwan
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