Taiwan with Young Kids and Baby (Part 5) – Tainan and KaoHsiung

Finally back to completing the last installment of our trip to Taiwan.

On the last leg of the trip, we did Tainan and Kaoshiung before heading back to Taipei for the flight back to Singapore.

Taroko Park Mall, KaoHsiung

After a few days at the countryside, we felt back at home after reaching KaoHsiung, another major city in Taiwan. Being a city, here comes shopping, in a mall!

Mr Lai brought us to this very new mall, Taroko Park and my city kids were thrilled to find amusement park and indoor playground, lots of it, over here. The weather was somewhat hot for outdoor play, so we just took the carousel ride and head straight for the indoor one. There were several other rides though as seen on the map.

Suzuki Circuit Park at Taroko Mall

Then comes the indoor playground. It was huuuuggeee! It seems like a combination of Polliwog, The City and Pororo Park. Good place to park the kids (and the hubby) while the mummy goes shopping!

The best part was that this place was so new, there wasn’t a crowd, yet. So the girls had lots of chance to explore every section. They were exhausted and famished and all sweaty at the end of it but they couldn’t be happier.

Indoor playground at Taroko Park Mall

We spent the whole day at KaoHsiung on this day and headed back to Deely House in the evening.

Tsou Ma Lai Farm

Big farm at Tsou Ma Lai

Read on TripAdvisor that there was supposed to to have some farm activities here. But it was quite empty when we reached. Probably because it was a weekday. Feels like we have the whole farm for ourselves. Luckily there were still some playground and we also fed the horses. Should be more fun on a weekend though. 

Chi Mei Museum

Chimei Museum near Tainan

From the Deely House, we drove around 1 hour to the #1 place to go in Tainan, as on TripAdvisor , the Chimei Museum.

The museum compound was huge! We didn’t manage to view the exhibits as kids might not be keen and it was too big for our group to walk. So we just took photos at the exterior and they looked so grand. Mission accomplished.

Water Fire Cave

Apparently the fire has been burning for 300 years to date

The water-fire cave is literally, a cave with flower water and fire burning at the same time. It’s a natural phenomena. The fire being constantly fueled by methane gas leaking through fault lines on the rocks. You can’t get too near it but from where we stood, we could already feel the warmth from the fire. How peculiar a sight!

Eight Trigram Buddha Landscape (Chang Hua)

Big Buddha Temple in Tainan

We weren’t expecting to be seeing big Buddha in Taiwan, but there was one. The Buddha statue was quite impressive but kids were happy just running around on the wide spaces.

Chung She Flower Market

Chung She Flower Farm. We love flowers!

 Finally, the most photogenic place of the trip. At an unexpected place, the Chung She Flower Farm. There were plots and plots of flowers! I think I went bonkers trying to take the best shots here and am quite pleased with the set of photos we took here. The kids had fun posing around too. 

As it got darker the temperature started to drop and we set off to return to Taoyuan to stay overnight for the flight back the next day.

It was quite a long ride so most of us were just napping on the car 

I think there must be lots more parts of Taiwan we have yet to cover but should be good enough for now. Hopefully we will head for a new trace destination for the next trip! 
Itinary

• KaoHsiung
• Tsou Ma Lai Farm
• Chi Mei Museum
• Fire Water Cave
• Eight Trigram Buddha
• Chung She Flower Market

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