2021/04/25 21:35 Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (center) presides over a ceremony to commence the route operation between Anping Harbor and Penghu. (Tainan Tourism an... Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (center) presides over a ceremony to commence the route operation between Anping Harbor and Penghu. (Tainan Tourism and Travel Bureau photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The passenger ship Natchan Rera on April 21 began to ply the route between Tainan’s Anping Harbor and the outlying island county of Penghu three days a week, according to a press release from the city’s Tourism and Travel Bureau. Penghu, an archipelago made up of 97 islands, is located in the middle of the Taiwan Strait.
Tainan installation work wins U.S. lighting award
02/22/2021 09:12 PM
Blessings from the Whale. CNA photo on Feb. 22
Tainan, Feb. 22 (CNA) An installation art work located near Anping Harbor in Tainan was recently honored for its lighting design by the LIT Lighting Design Awards, the city's Tourism Bureau said Monday.
The work, "Blessings from the Whale" created by Taiwanese artist Yang Shih-yi (楊士毅) in 2018, received an honorable mention at the awards, its third major honor after garnering a Taiwan Landscape Award in 2019 and an IESA American International Lighting Design Award in 2020.
The 23-meter long, 11.5-meter wide, 11.6-meter high whale-shaped work, set with 448 pieces of colorful glaze-fired glass, was installed on Big Fish Square under the Anyi Bridge at Anping Fishing Port to promote boat tours of the Anping Yunhe canal.