Dragon and Tiger Pagodas, Lotus PondPhoto: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0
Lotus Pond was one of the Eight Sights of Fongshan under the Qing.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
Two seven-storey pagodas of 1976 on a zigzag bridge over Lotus Pond in Zuoying. Custom says enter by the dragon’s mouth and leave by the tiger’s. The pagodas were renovated from 2023 into early 2025 and are open again (news reports). The lake and its walks are open 24 hours; the pagodas’ own hours are not published on the city’s page.
- Number 1 of ten on our list for Kaohsiung.
- 2 hr 30 min door to door needs a 4.5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Dragon and Tiger Pagodas, Lotus Pond and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 2 hr 30 min goes
The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.
If your ship is late, cut the 2 hr in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
3 hr 30 min for bothKaohsiung Music Center
The hexagon towers on Love River Bay, 1.6 km from the cruise terminal: the Wave Towers, the Coral Zone and the Whale Bridge with a lookout over the harbour.
See the detail
4 hr for bothThe Dome of Light
A glass dome by the Italian artist Narcissus Quagliata over the concourse of Formosa Boulevard station, where the Red and Orange lines cross.
See the detail