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 species, including Red-tailed Golden Dragon, Elephant Fish, Silver Plate, and Giant Catfish. There was also a 130-meter-high water slide, a swimming pool, a Ferris wheel, a cableway across the river, and a sea lion show.
Once very popular, the park gradually declined and became abandoned after the 2000s, due to changes in tourism trends. In an era before the opening of places like Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village and Leofoo Village Theme Park, it was a popular attraction. Unfortunately, in the later years, the park couldn’t survive the unfavorable broader economic conditions. Besides aging facilities that couldn’t be updated, it also faced fierce competition from other parks offering lower prices to attract customers.
Here are some nostalgic videos.
The abandoned and decaying hotel is quite eerie.
copyright Claudius Petzold
