The Kaohsiung Experience: The Local Travel Guide to Kaohsiung and Tainan, Taiwan (Taiwan Guide)

Forget the polished tourist trail. Welcome to Kaohsiung: perched on Taiwan's southern coast, this is the gritty, charming, "real Taiwan." Once famous for shipbreakers and sugar refineries, this former rust belt city is emerging as a cultural and technological powerhouse -- without losing its quirky edge.The Kaohsiung Experience skips the usual tourist traps to show you the city locals actually live in. Night markets are just the beginning of our explorations. We’ll venture out to find secret dry noodles, urban wetlands teeming with wild monkeys, and hidden cafes tucked inside sake shops and old military dorms. I'll show you a hidden suspension bridge, how to sleep cheap in a notorious half-abandoned skyscraper, where to get the dead skin shaved off your feet at 2 AM, and how to navigate a seafood market that gives Tokyo a serious run for its money.This guide is as local as it gets. Everything is geared toward easy exploration, featuring map links and QR codes for every single recommendation so you can navigate Kaohsiung like a local, or better.Charge your smartphone and lace up your walking shoes. You're about to discover the Kaohsiung tourists never see. Read more