Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Kaohsiung

According to Wikipedia, Kaohsiung is one of the world's four largest ports. It is also Taiwan's second largest city, after Taipei. Heavily polluted, it is not uncommon to see people wearing face masks. And the density of scooters per square meter of tar probably exceeds that of Taipei!


Night view of the city across Love River.



Street lamps have a seagull design. It's a seaside city, after all ...



A view of the countryside, outside Kaohsiung



Rice paddy. So that's what they look like!



Dragon pagoda and Tsuoying Lotus Pond



It's like a jetty with lanterns!



Kwang-chung

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hello Maartens, Happy New Year to you too. I read your comments wrt 2007. It is in the stars. Unfortunately the world went mad last year and is still trying to recover but is doing it using the wrong methods. Has the East taught us nothing?!? I blame Capitalism.
My e-mail is celtic54@absamail.co.za.