A performance at Tainan Park

And at the end of the walk in the park we were rewarded with an artistic roller-skating live performance.
It was impressing to observe how serious these little artists were into their performance!

boys with girls, girls with boys


girls with girls


boys with boys


...and the cool little skater who seemed not in the mood to perform but always in the mood to wander and joke around!

December Colors in Tainan Park

Green is the base, the pattern's colors changes

Pink - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


Redish Pink - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


Red - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


Light purple - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


Light purple II - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004

The floating palace

No meio do parque, existe um lago, no meio deste lago existe uma construcao a que eu lhe chamo de palacio flutuante.
No meio deste palacio existe aquilo que nos queremos levar para la’.
A cada um de escolher!


The floating palace - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


The floating palace - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


The floating palace - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


A Jangada de Pedra, nao a do Saramago que flutua no Atlantico, mas a do parque de Tainan, que e’ como ja’ se tem visto por aqui, uma cidade no sul da ilha da Formosa, que flutua no lago, nao a Formosa mas a Jangada de Pedra.
(frase ‘a Saramago)


The floating palace - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


The floating palace by night - Tainan Park - 09 Dec. 2004
E esta foi tirada ontem ‘a noite, por volta das 23:00H, com um tripode e uma abertura exposicao da lente de 20 segundos.
O parque ainda mais mistico fica... huuuummm... ‘aquela hora.

The floating garden - Tainan Park

I wish you were here that quite Sunday sunny morning after the storm, to feel what it is to stare at this floating garden.
A lake covered with lotus flowers – Buda’s chosen flower.
But you didn’t come here to see, it so I send it to you to look at it:


The floating garden - Tainan Park - 05 Dec 2004


The floating garden - Tainan Park - 05 Dec 2004


The floating garden - Tainan Park - 05 Dec 2004


The floating garden - Tainan Park - 05 Dec 2004


The floating garden - Tainan Park - 05 Dec 2004


The floating garden - Tainan Park - 05 Dec 2004


The floating garden - Tainan Park - 05 Dec 2004


The floating garden - Tainan Park - 05 Dec 2004

Dramatic Trees at Tainan Park

Proceeding the walk through Tainan Park, today I leave you some examples of incredible trees that live in Tainan Park. Their shapes and size are absolutely impressive and they talk to you, listen:


growing apart towards divorce - Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


growing together towards union - Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


growing parallel - Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004

The Mystic Aura of Tainan’s Park

Tainan’s central park is alive and has a soul of its own.
Every time I enter it I get a different feeling and see different things.
It can be extremely serene beautifully decorated with natural born flowers, which Mother Nature replaces all year around but it can also be mysteriously spooky with its ancient trees competing with each other and with time to reach their dramatic shapes.
When you walk through this park, on an early foggy winter morning or late at night, you can’t avoid feeling some kind of mystic energy created by the surreal scenario, almost as if you were in some Hollywood mystery movie.
Come along to see if I can transmit you what I mean:


The (Jurassic) park gate – Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


"hollywood boulevard" – Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


"Former War Zone" – Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004


Tainan Park – 05 Dec.2004

Tripping in Tainan's Park - I

I know its very cliché to have “my best this or my best that” but I have to admit that since I am in Tainan, I do have my favorite tree and my preferred city park. They both live here in Tainan.
Sunday morning was quite sunny and things outside seemed to have recovered quite well from the last 48 hours storm. I decide to go for a walk in the park and although I’ve been there many times, I brought along my camera, just in case, as this park always amazes me for its natural beauty, and its mystic and spiritual aura. Once again, a simple walk in the park turns out to be an exciting trip in a world of beauty!
I interrupt for a while my posts about South East Asia trips to share with you the beauty seen and felt, Sunday morning in Tainan park, the day after the storm.
I have selected a few photos but they are just too many for a single post, so I grouped them into subjects and will post a subject a day.
I leave you now with a glance of each subject you will be seeing here in the next few days:


The mystic aura of Tainan’s Park - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


Dramatic Trees - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


The floating garden - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


The floating palace - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


Green is the base, the pattern's colors changes - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004


The performance in the park - Tainan Park - 05 Dec. 2004