19/12/2010 Kaohsiung

For the weekend, we decided to go to Kaohsiung and to LiouCiou Island. As usually, the main streets that lead to the city are packed with scooters.

We arrived in Kaohsiung just on time to go to the night market. The Giant Shrimps, squids, oysters and fishes stalls confirm that we are in the seafood country. 

 Giant shrimps stall. You pick the shrimps you want alive in the aquarium and they will grill it for you. Can it be fresher than that? 

 Two of those delicious oysters omelettes that cost 50 NT (1.50$). Have you notice the red basket full of oysters.

 We keep seeing those things drying on boards all day long in the streets.

 Kaohsiung is a modern, clean, aesthetic and dynamic city that now attracts many tourists. Walking around the harbor and on the shores of the Love River is pleasant and relaxing. We walk and eat all evening and eventually go back to the hotel. We start the next day by visiting Cijin Island, the oldest part of Kaohsiung.  

On our way to catch the ferry, we can see the fishes catched during the night and now drying in the streets.

 In the ferry crowded with scooters

 View of Kaohsiung from the White lighthouse on Cijin Island.

 On the docks and causeways of Cijin, fishermans are everywhere, asleep on their cooler, the fishing pole standing on their scooter.

 View of Cijin

A delicious BBQ squid on its stick, a popular snack that you have to try.