Every trip we go with two young kids means we have to populate the itinerary with the kind of activities we know they would enjoy – for sure. That really just means two activity types: playgrounds, and animals. The Taipei Zoo though having a low admission fee got dropped as the review for it weren’t encouraging. We did also consider including a visit to the Taipei Child Amusement Park, but that was a bit out of the way to where we were heading to in the afternoon of Day 11 – basically east-side. So we chose Da’an Forest Park instead on account of the many pictures we’ve seen of it, and that it boasted a fun and fairly large children playground. The children’s playground itself isn’t different to what we’re used to seeing, but there’s just an indescribable joy in seeing other children that isn’t your usual crowd also at play. There are also other activities about in the park, including roller-skating, dancing etc. that presented great photo ops again.
All the photos in this post were using the Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 + Sigma MC-11 again on the Sony A73. Didn’t expect to get this much mileage of this lens! I’m glad I took this lens out for this trip, heavy as it is.
I did also read about the park’s bird habitat, but didn’t expect to see this many specimens within moderate telephoto reach too. Da’an Forest Park has a lovely bird sanctuary in the form of a small island inside the park’s ecological pool – which was where I encountered a brigade of photographers on the opposite bank all were waiting for a particular Kingfisher to fly out. I didn’t bring the kind of long telephoto equipment they had – I brought just a 70-200mm f2.8 this trip for semi-long shots – so made do with the more achievable subjects, a selection of which is posted here.
Da’an Forest Park is a really charming place to go by, and we’re glad we made time for it. We next headed to Yongkang Street, blogged here.
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