Category: Amusement parks

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A Journey Back in Time to Taichung’s Amusement Parks

Encore Garden Encore Garden (亞哥花園), located in the Dakeng Scenic Area of Beitun District, Taichung, is a now-closed amusement park and was Taiwan’s first European-style garden-themed amusement park. It was once one of the major recreational destinations in Taiwan and ranked among the top ten privately operated amusement parks for many years. (The entrance today) The park was known for its wide variety of flowers and exotic trees, as well as Taiwan’s only nighttime water dance show and water-screen movie at the time. It also featured amusement rides and live theater performances, including singing and dancing. Encore Garden was founded in

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Kindheitserinnerung/Nieces

It is difficult to generate profits with swimming pools because the costs are quite high. This is especially true for traditional pools with long swimming lanes and only limited spa facilities. My nieces learned how to swim at this pool. Unfortunately, the stray dogs there are not very friendly. When we were in the process of adopting my daughter, she went to a swimming pool for the very first time. She just sat on the edge and cried because she was so scared.

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Der Fisch ist nicht mehr frisch

Unfortunately, I can no longer find any information about this aquarium in the outskirts of Kaohsiung. It’s an impressive building. What a pity. It was not difficult at all. A large hole in the door has become the place where one may now collect a formal invitation to enter. When I stepped inside, my leg was still badly injured, an open wound making it hard for me to move properly. I could not enter easily. Heavy rain was falling. Water dripped everywhere, and everything seemed rusted.Dear friends of decay, please forgive my timidity. (Please pick up your invitation) New visit Since

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Guanyin and the mystical beast are waiting for BBQ

Theme Park near Putian Temple – Guqifeng Amusement Park: A nice outing near Hsinchu City is the Putian Temple and the museum below it (Putian Temple Folk Art Museum, 普天宮民俗文物館). Anyone interested in Chinese culture should definitely visit. There are beautiful sculptures, furniture pieces, miniature temple models, and other items that are surprisingly detailed. Below the temple begins Guqifeng Park, which unfortunately has been abandoned. It must have once been a beautiful park, decorated with sculptures from Buddhism and Taoism. Built in 1967 (Year 56 of the ROC calendar), Guqifeng Amusement Park features Chinese folk culture and traditions. The park includes

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Kending: Greed and misjudgment

Kending is the result of misguided economic and tourism policies, as well as misjudgments by private businesses. Let’s go back to the year 2001: Kending was a dream vacation for my young nieces. My wife and I took them there — it was their first trip without their parents. Even back then, Kending was rather overpriced. Despite everything, we remained connected to Kending. In 2008, I started organizing professional tours, including trips to Kending. Hotel prices became a headache, but the interesting parks in the area made up for it. I also made an effort within the community to convey that

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Pain

edit: 2025/9/7 The 2015 New Taipei water park fire (Formosa Fun Coast Park) was probably the most tragic incident in recent Taiwanese history, because many university students died or were horribly injured. The site is still partially preserved. They still call it the Hellfire of Bali to this day. This place used to be a very popular excursion spot in Bali, northern Taiwan. I visited it several times with my nieces. I was working at Fu Jen University at the time — many of its students were among the injured. Today, it’s a lost place — and it also triggers memories

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Lost Place in Longtan

Children’s World or Fairy Tale World amusement park (童話世界遺跡) was an amusement park in the 1980s, located at the border between Guanxi Township in Hsinchu County and Longtan District in Taoyuan City. The park covered an area of over 20 hectares. It was also used as a filming location for the 1986 Taiwanese movie Beidou Xinquan. It was built with an investment of nearly 300 million NTD. The park was planned to include a family-friendly amusement area, a scenic leisure area, and a lakeside resort area. It offered various attractions such as a pirate ship, horseback riding, bumper boats, and more.

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Golden Bird Sea Tribe Park

Golden Bird Sea Tribe Park (金鳥海族樂園) was a amusement park. It was situated along the Municipal Road 118 and covered an area of 8 hectares. The park opened in 1983 and was surrounded by mountains, featuring both dynamic amusement rides and static attractions. It had an amusement area, a swimming pool, a sea lion performance area, an aquarium, and more. Not much is left of it. The park is now heavily overgrown, with the wide paths narrowed to about 1 meter. Small lakes are also overgrown, so one must be careful when navigating. The park housed an aquarium with rare fish

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