Fun Kenting Day 2

On the second day in Kenting, we had breakfast in hotel and checked out. Our itinerary was to visit Maobitou, the southernmost tip of Taiwan & the Eluanbi Lighthouse,  the light of East Asia among the complex of Kenting National park. Built in 1984, Kenting national park is Taiwan's oldest and southernmost national park, covering the southernmost area of the Taiwan island.

 

Our bus took us to Maobitou., whose name in Mandarin meant cat's nose and head. This place is on the southeast corner of the peninsula Hengchun in Pingtung. It is nice to wait for the sunset here. Therefore, Maobitou is one of the eight notable sceneries of Hengchun.

 

The bus ran across the beach then stopped to let us out visiting a giant piece of coral which is jutting out the sea. This is an excellent place to see the seashore with magnificent waves coming sometimes.

 

There was a little dog enjoying watching Maobitou with us too. We continued our journey to explore another attraction in Kenting called Eluanbi Light house.

The path from main gate to go see the Lighthouse

There were many beautiful unique souvenirs made by colorful seashells here.

The scene of the Eluanbi area were gorgeous under the sunshine & wind

Here we are the Light house. Our Taiwanese friends said this place was renowned as the Light of East Asia, because of its height & wide optical power. The 4-floor lighthouse  is covered white, and shaped cylindrical. When we came, it was closed to go up the top of Light house. So we missed the chance to get wider view to ocean, which I bet it would be so great.

 

With a height of 21-meter and spreading out a circumference of 110 meters, its optical power of light can reach 20 miles far. Therefore, Eluanbi has been considered as the most intensified lighthouse in Asia.

From this area, we could take walk in wooden path across the seashore - the thing which made us feel so nice to see & hear the wave & beautiful ocean view.

 

Leaving Eluanbi Lighthouse, we stopped by a Go-Kart place, which is quite common in Kenting for one of popular amusement activities here. Each of us had our own go-kart. And it was cool to try this game. We left Kenting with such nice impression.

Kenting is really a fascinating and affordable destination. For any expats living  in Taiwan  the 2 day trip to Kenting like my trip would cost about 2300-3000 NTD

Transportation: 800-1000 NTD (KHH to Pingtung & local transportation)

Eating & accommodation (1 night 2 days): 1200 -1800 NTD

Amusement ticket: 300 NTD

Fun Kenting Day 1

To many,  Kenting National Park is a destination highly recommended by local Taiwanese if you ask about a special place to travel around south Taiwan. This beautiful park is located in Pingtung county in south of Taiwan. This trip was made by our group of friends studying in KSU.

We came to Kenting in summer days. Even though we were awared it would be very sunny there, it was so excited to take a bus from Kaoshiung to Kenting where the beach was awaiting us. If you want to travel by your own, you can take the regular or express bus from KHH to Kenting with a price of 300-400 NT$ (8~10 USD) for a 1 or 2.5 hour trip. But since we wanted to stop in some places across Kenting in 2 days, we hided a big bus to take us there.

On our way in about 1.5 hour from Kaoshiung, we stopped by a village where local Taiwanese would show us how to make a lacquer umbrella. This is the name of the place in Chinese, poor me that I forgot pinyin pronunciation, which I took it more comfortable to memorize & learn Chinese

 

This was the first time for me to learn how & it was very interesting. Two old women in the village were very helpful. They invited us take our sits & started to take slow steps of making paper umbrella.

Making the frame of umbrella before sticking paper

Anyway, the more exciting part was to paint the umbrella. Everyone worked on their umbrella painting. And finally turned out the "final products". My friends just made fun with what they did for the umbrellas

Later our self-painted umbrellas were wrapped to be posted back to our living places. It would be the best souvenirs everyone had from this trip. So we had a photo for our good memory here.

After fun time in the spot for umbrella painting, we headed to the beach of Kenting -  the most southern part of the Formosa. Across the beach, there are so many beautiful hotels & restaurant with magnificent ocean views. It seemed like I forgot the hotness of the sunny weather because the freshness from the beach came ease us so comfortably.

These beautiful hotels across the beach related me to the ones in coastal line of Vung Tau, Vietnam. We reached to our booked hotel. While others were busy with their luggage & checking-in, I didn't forget to take photo of the street in front of our hotel.

 

Fully equipped with modern décor and beautiful comfortable bathroom, our hotel room costed about 1000 NT$ (~ 25 USD) per night, which was a deal.

Our room's window were towards the seaside. A large balcony with chairs and tables out there if we wanted to have some drinks & feel the sea's windy relaxing atmosphere.

From the balcony, it was so perfect to esteem the view of the ocean  The beautiful white sandy beaches made me can't wait to change & go there for sunbathing on. After the check-in & resting about 30 mins, we went to the beach immediately. I guess this beach  was called Nanwan beach in Chinese or South Bay in English. We had fun playing baseball in the sand while some enjoyed their swimming and sunbathing. The beach was so beautiful, calm, safe with easy access.

This is Shirley - our Taiwanese fun-loving friend. I miss her a lot when looking at this picture. She was trying to take photos of all us

 

Here we go, finally she got our photo.

Cute dog in the beach

Night in the Kenting beach is very enjoyable for tourists. You can go to  the crowded night market  or go to restaurants to try seafood. Kenting is famous for its plenty of seafood choices . You even can access easily in food stalls to try grilled shrimp or fish. Especially the sushi and sashimi here are so cheap. With 100-150 NT$, you can have 20 pieces of sashimi. For us, after BBQ for dinner, we had a flame of fire in the sand for drinks& dance very late at night.