The Ultimate Guide to the 2017 Xinshe Flower Sea Festival!Limited-time opportunity to embrace the pink cosmos and lavender blooms

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The annual Xinshe Flower Sea has officially kicked off on November 11, 2017. This year’s theme is“Xinshe Flower Sea & A Leisurely Journey Along Provincial Highway 3”Featuring more large-scale landscape displays and fewer elaborate installations. Have you been looking forward to the Xinshe Flower Sea in Taichung every year? Come on, let’s go flower viewing together~

Flower Sea Exhibition Area

Xinshe Flower Sea Site Layout Map

After getting off the shuttle bus at the venue, you’ll be greeted by a vast expanse of stunning flower fields—so expansive~

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A huge field of golden sorghum—yep, that’s the crop used to make kaoliang liquor, “sorghum”!

If you’ve drunk kaoliang wine, eaten kaoliang sausages or jerky, now’s your chance to see what sorghum actually looks like!

The “Edible Landscape” area features plant arrangements made from common, edible vegetables—how unique!

“Green Sea Lettuce,” with small name tags on the ground so you can identify each type of vegetable

Xinshe’s specialty “mushrooms” are naturally a must—

Strike a pose with the adorable little dwarfs

Pumpkin carriage, decorated with real pumpkins!So please don’t knock on it...

Encounter a romantic photo zone

Buckwheat Field

Stand on the wooden walkway in the buckwheat field and feel like you’re surrounded by buckwheat

A sea of pink flowers that’s simply enchanting to behold

Cosmos

The grand camphor tree, which has watched over the Xinshe Flower Sea for over a decade, still stands proudly as the largest and most iconic landmark here. It provides a shady spot for visitors to rest~

The purple flowers are “Salvia farinacea”

The red flowers are “Salvia splendens”

Exhibition Area

Local Agricultural Products Area

Xinshe Flower Sea Welcome Flower Wall

Unified Service Center, located right next to the Welcome Flower Wall

There’s a rest area in front of the Welcome Flower Wall

Welcome Fruit Area

Food

Food area—time to treat your taste buds~

Every year at Xinshe Flower Sea, the most anticipated treat is oyster omelets—this stall is super popular!

Freshly fried oyster omelets

Besides oysters, there are also shrimp-flavored options to choose from

The fragrant oyster omelets reveal juicy, plump oysters with one bite—the aroma is amazing~

When you’re here, you definitely have to try Xinshe’s famous specialties

Most stalls outside usually just coat their offerings with a thick layer of batter and give you a tiny bit of mushrooms, but the king oyster mushrooms sold here are huge and generous in portion!

This stall selling wild boar sausage also draws long lines—the sausages and meat skewers are all super big!

Transportation

The most important thing is how to get there

Location:No. 30, Xie Xing Street, Xie Cheng Li, Xinshe District, Taichung City
Transportation Options:Check here
City Buses:Check here To reach the flower sea, get off at “Zhongxingling” Station

If you’re driving, also pay attention to traffic control and available parking areas Traffic control info check here And Parking InformationTo avoid traffic jams, you can also take the TRA to Fengyuan Railway Station and transfer to a shuttle bus, or drive to Taiyuan Parking Lot and then take the shuttle bus→Shuttle Bus Info check here Shuttle bus service runs from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM every weekend.

This time we chose to take the shuttle bus to the flower sea venue. The boarding point is at the bus transfer area near the east exit of Fengyuan Railway Station.

The shuttle bus pickup and drop-off are at the same location.

Shuttle Bus Parking Lot. The shuttle buses travel between Taiyuan Parking Lot and Fengyuan Railway Station. There are no shuttle buses on weekdays, so use other transportation methods if you want to visit Xinshe Flower Sea on a non-holiday!

Xinshe Flower Sea
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Location: No. 30, Xie Xing Street, Xie Cheng Li, Xinshe District, Taichung City
Event Dates: 2017/11/11~2017/11/26
Unified Service Center Hours: 8:00~17:30
Admission: Free

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