Continue from Taiwan KaoHsiung 高雄/85新宿-金記溫州餛飩大王-雙妃奶茶, we visited the famous tourist attraction in Kaohsiung, 駁二藝術特區（The Pier-2 Art Center) after lunch.
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| Park along Dayong Rd on the way to Pier 2 |
駁二藝術特區（The Pier-2 Art Center)
Opening hours:10:00-18:00 (M-T) 10:00-20:00 (F-S)
Address:台灣高雄市鹽埕區大勇路1號
No.1, Dayong Rd., Yancheng Dist., Kaohsiung City
803, Taiwan
How to get there: YanChengPu Station, Exit 1, head straight along Dayong Road for 500m (about 5-10 minutes). Pier 2 entrance is at your right.
Another thing made me love Taiwan other than their natural habitat is their effort in promoting art and culture. Pier 2 used to be usual warehouse for port until it become abandoned. The artists in the town then turned the abandoned warehouse into an art center. Even their washroom is artistic and clean.The most popular art pieces will be the 3D wall art of station and “bumblebee”!
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| I'm so tiny in front of bumblebee. :D |
From time to time, there are different exhibition held inside the warehouse, some required entrance fees while some not. (Refer to their website for exhibition available). At out time of visit there were only two exhibition held in Pier 2. One of it is NewVision poster design exhibition and Steam Train Exhibition which does't attract us.
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| One of the entrance of warehouse |
There are also different art pieces outside of warehouse which is open to public.
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| They are way too cute~ |
Walking straight down from Pier 2 will reaches 真愛碼頭 Love Pier. Along the street you can see different kind of art work that most of it are remade using recycle material or container.
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| It reminds me of hounds of baskerville |
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| Random Wall Art |
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| Muscle Man. Spot the Odd! |
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| The Smoke Room |
Theoretically walking down the road will leads us to Love Pier. Not sure whether we miss the turn or they are under renovation, we came into this at the end of the road:
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| Look like an abandoned place |
This was the place where they shoot for Taiwanese Drama, Black and white 痞子英雄. The police headquarter and the gun shooting scene. I guess they move everything into the new themepark in Kaohsiung. Anyway the view from the Pier is still nice where the significant 85 Building with clear blue sky can be seen on the bridge.
If you dislike walking, bicycle for rent is available everywhere. Since some of my friends don’t know cycling, so we chose to walk around. Personally I don’t think it is necessary to rent a bike. It’s not too hot to walk under the hot sun since the wind is strong. Acceptable for me but the boys can’t stand it. That’s lead to the pictures below:
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| Trying their very best to hide from the sun. |
Thus without staying long at Love Pier, we headed back to hostel for some rest and the recommended sunset view by the hostel staff. On our way walking back we bump to this, the garbage truck of Taiwan which I read from one article that it was one of the must see thing in Taiwan. Their garbage truck comes with very cheerful music that to encourages remind the citizen to throw their rubbish. This is their policy to ensure the cleanliness of ground where trash is delivered straight from home to truck without ever touching the ground.
The rubbish collection runs on schedule and not on daily basis. So I will say how lucky we are to bump into this. haha
Next up I will be writing on the evening view from our hostel-Formosa Boulevard Station-SingGuang Pier 新光碼頭.
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