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HSR to Kaohsiung

by sander24. February 2010 19:57

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Took the HSR (High Speed Railway) Train to Kaohsiung today. (A train that can reach speeds up to 400km/h. From Japan obviously.) Took over 500 pictures and they're still uploading. I was there all day, so been doing a lot. Hopefully I will remember some of the stories from my trip when looking through some pictures for tomorrow, should I manage to get some time for writing. Today, all I can say is that Kaohsiung is a lovely harbour city. Very big, very hot (it's the southernmost city in Taiwan.) The roads there are much bigger and everything is much easier to see.

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Been taking pictures of big buildings like this. I was told that it's the 8th biggest building in the world or so. It's called Tuntex Sky Tower. Also known as Kaohsiung 85 or 85 Skytower, because it has 85 floors and is located in Kaohsiung. (Just like Taipei 101 located in Taipei and having 101 floors.) Tuntex Sky Tower and Taipei 101 is designed by the same architect, actually.
And of course I was inside. There's an amazing view and great food.

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Also cruised a bit around in the harbour taking pictures of many different kinds of interesting ships.

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Also went to see some monkeys in the mountains. Used a lot of my time there in Kaohsiung climbing up and down to get to their place.

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Also managed to snap some photos during dark. It's a beautiful city.

Be back soon and I'll tell you some more about the differences between Taipei. Have pictures of MRT, roads, Engrish, strange stuff, arty architecture, lots of ships with strange names, (even found some Danish ones,) dogs, mountain, monkeys (of course, told you, and I have lots of pictures of those) and I bet probably some more stuff that I'll remember sooner or later.

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