Bit by bit: A trip to Ping Tung and Kao Shiung

The nurse in my school brought me to Ping Tung and Kao Shiung yesterday. First, we went to Taiwan Indigenous People Culture Park (台灣原住民族文化園區), which located at Ping Tung. We had to pay NTD150 for a person, or NTD80 for student and old folks.

The entrance

The pillars were made of Slate (石板)

There is a fountain right in front of the entrance

We went to the souvenir shops to take a look. Most of the products they sell are art crafts or handmade stuffs. They sell alcohol too. Indigenous people like to drink and their rice wine is very well-known. I tried abit but I think the taste is too strong for me.

In the souvenir shop

Coins purse made of coconut shell

The lady is persuading us to try and buy her wines

I bought a small bottle of grape wine from her. It costs NTD100 only. After that, we went to the stage part to watch performance. They have this "welcoming ceremony" whereas they lit up the fire crackers, after that they sang and danced for us. Unfortunately, we sat at the front row, the fire cracker's booming sound was really loud and scared us.

They were singing their traditional song.

The girl was explaining about the bamboo firecracker

Started!

After the welcoming ceremony, we took the bus provided by the culture park to a theater hall. Before we get into the hall, they gave us a stick of dried grass, and we lit it up. They said this would bless us.

Waiting for the bus

The dried grass

lit it up (God will bless us!)

We went in and sat there for an hour! The performance was a bit long to be frank. We were really bored and tired when the performance was about to end. Despite the long timing, their performance was awesome and all of them sang really well! Their traditional clothes were pretty and interesting.

I like this performance the most! Drums playing

Colourful traditional clothes

They asked us to clap and sing along

Drama

Praying dance

Sing and dance for the collection of millet

After the performance ended, I took a picture with one of the guys. He is really tall!!

A photo with the nurse's family

We were really hungry and the nurse's husband brought us to a restaurant nearby for lunch. The food there was delicious. The chicken they used for dishes were all 'kampung chicken'. These chicken were left to run anywhere they want to, thus they called it '土鸡'. I hope these pictures will not make you drool :P

The restaurant

The mountain vege

Fried fishes

Stone chicken 石头土鸡

Slate pork (I will rate this 4.5 out of 5!)

We left Ping Tung with a full and happy stomach, headed to Kao Shiung to spend the remaining hours. Before leaving to Kao Shiung, the father suddenly turned into another road and told us he wanted to bring me to an old church (萬金聖母聖殿). The kids complained like hell. LOL. In the end we still visited the church (Of course! Who is the driver? :p)

Taking pic in front of the old church

Inside of the church

They have a small garden behind the chuch

We visited Dream Mall after this. Dream Mall is the favourite place of every kid. They have thousand of stores selling kid's clothes and toys. There is a big book shop too.

The look from outside

They have a stage like this! So cute

A famous ice-cream shop in Taiwan called Cold Stone

Our ice-creams!

So many Doreamon products

Elmo

Spongebob Squarepants

At night, we went to Love River. It was really crowded!! They had dragon boat competition and night market. The nurse told me it wasn't like this usually, it was because of the Duanwu festival. We walked around and had dinner in a Japanese restaurant.