Travel/POI: Rainbow Riverside Park (彩虹河濱公園), Taiwan

Every time we go back to Taiwan, we will definitely go to the night market and eat street food. The night market during the pandemic was very deserted. Not only were there fewer people, but there were also fewer vendors. It was very comfortable to walk on the empty streets. We did not realize that the night market has returned to normal now. We went to the night market on a weekend and were surprised by the crowd. Maybe I stayed in a place where there was hardly a crowd for too long, and I’m not used to it. So when my friend said that after eating dinner he planned to take us for a walk in the night market, we immediately said no. He explained that he was going to take us for a walk in the riverside park near the night market. Raohe Night Market is one of several well-known night markets in Taipei. We have been to it several times, but we never knew that there was a riverside park nearby. He led us through a narrow alley next to Songshan Ciyou Temple next to Raohe Night Market, then turned left and walked straight past the Rainbow Bridge to Rainbow Riverside Park. Looking at the brightly lit park at a glance, next to the Keelung River, there is a red Rainbow Bridge on the right, and a yellow Maishuaiyi Bridge on the left. Twinkling of lights reflecting on the water add a lot of colors to the park. It felt very safe to walk freely in the park at night. There is also a bike lane in the Rainbow Riverside Park and UBikes are available for rent nearby. Basketball, softball and tennis courts can also be found on the ground. It is a good place for exercise. During the day, you can see a large area surrounded by flowers. Different kinds of flowers can be seen in different seasons. There are also a series of love-themed designs for lovers. We did not visit this place during the day so I did not have the photos to share with you. But, the LOVE sculpture and love-locks photos at night are quite prominent.

每次回臺灣我們一定會去逛夜市吃路邊攤。疫情間的夜市很冷清，不僅人少，攤販也少了許多，空空蕩蕩的街走起來很舒服。誰知現在夜市已恢復如常，有一個週末去夜市，被人擠人的情景嚇到，或許在鳥不生蛋的地方待太久，不太習慣擁擠的夜市，所以當朋友說吃完飯後要去夜市走走，我們馬上說不，他解釋他是要帶我們去夜市附近的河濱公園散步。饒河街觀光夜市是台北幾個知名的夜市之一，我們去過好幾次，卻從來不知道附近有個河濱公園。他帶我們穿過饒河街夜市旁的松山慈祐宮旁的一條狹窄巷道，之後向左轉直走經過彩虹橋就到了河濱公園。一眼望去街燈通明的公園，依傍在基隆河邊，右手邊一座紅色的彩虹橋，左手邊一座黃色的麥帥一橋，閃爍的燈光反射在水面上，給公園增加了不少色彩。晚上在公園中散步逍遙自在覺得非常安全。彩虹河濱公園內另有自行車道，在附近也有UBike可租用，還有籃球、壘球和網球場，是個健身的好場所。白天還可以看到大面積的花海環繞，隨著季節的不同，可以看到不同種類的花，這裏也有為情人們設計一系列的愛情主題造景，可惜這次沒有白天來瞧瞧不同的面貌，倒是晚上LOVE立體文字雕塑及愛情鎖照相照起來還挺突顯的。

The bright red S-curve Rainbow Bridge is 167 meters long, spanning the Keelung River and connecting Neihu District and Songshan District. It is only open to people and bicycles so it is very pleasant to stroll on it.

鮮紅色S型曲線的彩虹橋全長167公尺，橫跨基隆河連接內湖區及松山區，只開放人及腳踏車通行，悠閒漫步其上非常愜意。

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**Photo Date:** 2023.05.27 **Location:** Taipei, Taiwan

Maishuai is the abbreviation of General MacArthur (Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964). He served as the commander-in-chief of the Pacific region of the US military during World War II, the supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Japan, and the commander-in-chief of the United Nations in the Korean War. Maishuai Highway was the first expressway in Taiwan, but Maishuai Highway no longer exists and has now been incorporated into the national highway and urban road system. There are a total of 32 bridges along the Maishuai Highway. The Maishuai Bridge is a bridge across the Keelung River on the Maishuai Highway. It was built in 1964 and demolished in 1994. It was rebuilt into the current double-layer bridge, named Maishuaiyi Bridge (Yellow Bridge in the photo ) is Taiwan's first "single-chord arch-rib double-layer steel arch bridge". During the reconstruction period, in addition to a temporary bridge, a new bridge was built less than 400 meters downstream, named Maishuai Second Bridge (the silver bridge in the photo), and it is the first Newelson-style basket steel arch bridge in Taiwan.

麥帥是麥克阿瑟將軍(元帥)（Douglas MacArthur，1880–1964）的簡稱，他曾任美軍二戰時期太平洋地區總司令、盟軍駐日最高司令、韓戰聯合國軍總司令。麥帥公路是臺灣第一條高速公路，但是麥帥公路已不復存在，現在已經納入國道及市區道路系統。麥帥公路全線共計32座橋樑，麥帥橋是麥帥公路上跨越基隆河的橋樑，它建於1964年，於1994年拆除，改建成現在的雙層大橋，命名為麥帥一橋(照片中黃色的橋)，是台灣第一座「單弦拱肋雙層鋼拱橋」。在改建期間，除了搭有臨時便橋之外，又在下游不到400公尺處建了一座新橋，命名為麥帥二橋(照片中銀色的橋)，為台灣首座紐爾遜式提籃型鋼拱橋。