My original plan for the afternoon in Kaoshiung was simply to check out town. Though after looking through my guidebooks in more detail, I changed my plans and decided to take a bus out to Fo Guang Shan.

Fo Guang Shan is the biggest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan and an internationally known Buddhist site of pilgrimage … Being there feels slightly odd … somehow like a Buddhist version of Disneyland.
I started my visit with Pure Land Cave – a walk-through Buddhist version of Disney’s ‘It’s a small world’, then checking out the temple, with Great Buddha Land being my final stop.