Day 4 : 8th Oct 2006

Our first destination for the day is the National Marine Museum and Biological Aquarium at 墾丁(KenTing). This also means that we have reached the southest most part of our journey of Taiwan. The park is splitted into 3 major areas, namely the "Waters of Taiwan", "Coral Kingdom Pavilion" and "Waters of the World". As the names suggest, each area consists of tunnels enclosed by glass, for you to walk through and to view the marine exhibits co-existing in the man-made habitat. The only thing that really captures my attention is that this aquarium actually houses the smaller spieces whales. Our next destination is 高雄 (KaoHsiung), the second largest city and commercial seaport of Taiwan. Upon reaching our destination, we were treated to a river cruise down 爱河 (Ai He - translates to Love River), with narrations to depict how the magnificent bridges were built and how beautiful get at night as lights will be turned on at 1900hrs. Time now is 1745 hrs. Sheesh. After the cruise, we were sent to the 六合(Leo Ho) night market. As we come to know later, this night market is considered to be one of the smaller scale. I strongly recommend that one come this market with an empty stomach as this night market sells mostly local delights. Famous food include 棺材板 (Literally translated to Coffin planks - A type of shepard pie wrapped by thick baked bread), Fried Ice cream (Smooth and delicious and not oily at all, heard the man patent and franchises his business overseas, anyone interested?) and 胡椒饼 (Pepper Biscuits - Biscuits with a lot of pepper. What else to say?). Left the market feeling 1 kg heavier. Seriously.