Taiwan Trip @ Day 4 (Taitung-Kaoshiung) - Part 5

We set off early in the morning of day 4 for Kaoshiung, Taiwan’s second largest city. We reached the Meinong Hakka Town. The idyllic landscape of Meinong has been the fertile ground for the Hakka culture. It featured Huo-Fang (the traditional Hakka 3-sided houses with a courtyard), tobacco barns, foods, history, delicate handicrafts, oil umbrellas, ceramic arts and flat rice noodles.

We also visited the Fokuoshan also known as the ‘Light of Buddha Mountain’ which is one of Taiwan’s largest temple complex and the island’s centre of Buddhist scholarship. Near the entrance, the tallest Buddha image in Taiwan stood majestically. At 32 metres high, it is surrounded by another 480 life-sized images of its disciples.