On Thursday, we went for a walk along the shore. The park along the beach is lovely with a sculpture garden, and interesting ponds to walk around. At the end of this park is an abandoned building that we think used to be an aquarium. There are also a number of strange round buildings nearby (barely to be seen before the large aquarium in the photo). I have been told that these buildings were part of a small olympic village for the sailing team, and this seems reasonable. In any case, all the buildings stand empty along the beach.
Friday we went the other direction, up Fushan (Mt. Fu). Fushan is a small mountain in the center of the ever expanding city. It takes about 30 minutes to get to the top of the ridge from our apartment. From the peak you can see the entire city surrounding the mountain. A small section is shown below. Despite the city all around, the mountain feels ancient.
There are strange buildings near the top of Fushan, and I can only guess at the original cause or meaning of their placement there. I can see this strange building from my office window in the back of our apartment, and it looks like a pagoda. Up close, it looks like some post-modern watchtower, a modern ruin, decaying back into the mountain.
Looking forward to more stories :)
ReplyDeleteCan't let Zhang be the only one to comment.. Nice pictures. Maybe it's the time of day you took them, but I don't remember Qingdao being so hazy; I hope it lifts at some point.. and that 'post-modern watchtower' looks like something you could serve drinks from. Hurry with the spring festival stories!
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