Qingdao day 3

On the third day in Qingdao I found a really neat military post on top of Qingdao mountain. It had been turned into a public park (not with swings and stuff but just stone paths through the mountain. We didn't know at all what was on the mountain and we just stumbled across this huge cannon overlooking the city.




Further up the mountain we found an observation post that was built buy the Germans around 1899. The rotating part of the post (on top) weighs about 6 tons.


Further down the mountain we came across the entrance to the entire underground bunker (of course we got charged to go in (only about a buck fifty though)). The bunker had living quarters, command posts, observation posts, escape hatches, a water supply, and all sorts of nifty things. The second picture is of me in the rotating observation post.



The Qingdao Battery Fort turned out to be super interesting and was one of my favorite tours (probably because we weren't expecting too much from it). The area doesn't even make the top 20 tourist spots in Qingdao.