Qingdao Travelogue – HuaShi Villa (HuaShi Lou)

HuaShi Villa (Huashi Lou): Which means colorful rock building, is a 5 story structure made of granite and marble built by a Russian aristocrat in 1932. The architecture has Greek, Roman, and Gothic influences.
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Qingdao Travelogue – Qingdao’s Badaguan (Eight Passes)

Badaguan (Eight Passes), famous for its tree lined streets, gardens, & European architecture, is located between bathing beach #2 and Taiping mountain. Each street is lined with a single type of tree or flower.

Qingdao History: The eight roads of Badaguan are named after 8 strategic passes of the great wall in and around Beijing.

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Qingdao Travelogue – Qingdao Guest House (Governor’s Mansion)

Qingdao Governor’s Mansion:  Built in 1903 at a cost of 2.5 million tears of silver and used by Mao Zedong in 1958.  The Governor’s Mansion has thirty rooms each with individual unique fireplaces and distinct style.  The Guest House is now a museum and hotel hosting different art exhibitions annually.

Qingdao History:  The brief German occupation (15 years) gave Qingdao its unique European architecture that can be seen in majestic buildings such as former residence of the German Governor (aka Qingdao Guest House).  …

Qingdao Travelogue – Hill Forts Park War Museum

Qingdao War Museum:  Japanese, German, and Chinese guns, parchments, documents, testimonials, and photographs.

Qingdao History:  The Siege of Qingdao, which was the only major East Asian land battle of WWI lead to the first occupation of Qingdao by the Japanese through the treaties of Versailles in 1919.  This enraged the local Chinese and eventually led the May 4th later that year.  The brief German occupation gave Qingdao its unique European architecture that can be seen in majestic buildings such as former residence of the …

Qingdao Travelogue – Hill Forts Park

Qingdao Travelogue:  Mark visits Qingdao’s Hill Forts Park Under Ground Command Post that was built in 1899 during the German occupation…

Qingdao History:  The Underground Command Post is all that remains of vast underground fortifications which were constructed in 1899 and then destroyed by the Germans themselves in 1914, at the beginning of WWI, before Japan’s first occupation of the region.

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