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Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday ascended on a 19.2m-tall hot air balloon themed on Taipei’s mascot, Bravo a Formosan black bear with a blue nose on the first day of the Taiwan International Balloon Festival in Taitung County.
The Taipei Department of Information and Tourism said that Taipei and Taitung County on Tuesday last week signed an agreement to promote and increase tourism between the two jurisdictions.
Ko, Taipei Deputy Mayor Tsai Ping-kun (蔡炳坤) and department Commissioner Liu Yi-ting (劉奕霆) were part of a delegation who early yesterday morning visited the festival venue in Taitung’s Luye Highland (鹿野高台).
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2021/07/29 12:03 A hot air balloon at a Taiwan International Balloon Festival (Taitung County photo) A hot air balloon at a Taiwan International Balloon Festival (Taitung County photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A warm-up event on Thursday (July 29) for the popular annual balloon festival in eastern Taiwan was met with a local protest amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally scheduled to take place between July 3 and Aug. 16, the 2021 Taiwan International Balloon Festival in Taitung has been postponed due to the coronavirus. When the event will kick off remains unclear, but the proposal to move it from the traditional site of Luye Highland to Chishang Township has enraged many locals.
2021/05/09 17:48 (Taitung County Government photo) (Taitung County Government photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The 45-day Taiwan International Balloon Festival will kick off July 3 at the Luye Highland in Taitung County. Two types of tethered flight tickets will be on sale from 12 p.m. on Thursday (May 13), according to a press release from the county s tourism department. These include the ticket package and the tethered flight-only ticket. Those who wish to purchase the tickets online should apply for an official account in advance via this site. The ticket package, which sells for NT$3,000 (US$103), includes a tethered flight ticket, a NT$2,000 voucher for accommodation at one of 21 local hotels, a NT$300 voucher good at 11 stores, a NT$300 voucher for package tours, and a NT$400 Taiwan Museum Pass that allows the cardholder free and unlimited access to nine libraries and 19 parks across Taiwan for a
A hot-air balloon in the shape of Japanese character Hello Kitty wearing a Bunun folk dress is inflated at the Luye Highland in Taitung County’s Luye Township yesterday. The Taitung County Government has made the hot-air balloon for the Taiwan International Balloon Festival, which is to take place from July 3 to Aug. 16.