Headquater of Pacific Fleet of Russia, Vladivostok

The harbor is established at 1860, eight years before the Meiji Restoration( Meiji-ishin) 6 years after Commodore M. Perry's visit to Japan. On 1904, the Russia Baltic Fleet defeated at Tsushima, then where is the Pacific Fleet?The miniature of warship, the first one, is on the top of the gate. It is said that the statue of a ship means the first ship of Russia to cast anchor here 1860.

city park, submarine museum, Vladivostok 2000

The city park like other Russian parks, a photographic place for new couple just marriage, and the Russian look it is a holy place to memory the wedding. The submarine museum is a place for make money from visitors,Viva Capitalism! The large building is headquater of Pacific Fleet of Russia.

Cannon, Russia Island,Vladivostok

There is a military museum on the island, called "military museum", actually is a ruin of a foolish cannon. The Cannon is set up at 1903, the year about the Russo-Japan War. It is fired only one time,and just only one time, then is ruin, now.The scene around the island is quite beautiful, may few visitor to be there. The island as a barrier in the entrance to Golden Harbor, from the satellite image,one can understanding the topography, for it is seriously.

Inside the Harbor 2000

Inside the Harbor, Vladivostok,2000. The hill is at north, as a naturally control point, and the ferry directed to south.The Headquater of Pacific Fleet of Russia(FMR USSR) is at left,14 floors, a building like a department independingly. There are many warships at pier, like the San Diego one, good for photography, without prohibition.

Golden Horn Harbor, Vladivostok 2000

Golden Horn Harbor is right angled. Here the photos are from north to south and one can see easy harbor works unlike the other harbors of Far East, for Vladivostok is not a business harbor but a military one. The Vladivostok is belonging Bo-Hai Prefecture, Trang Dynasty is her suzerain, at 8th century. There are many antique been unearthed, as one stone tomb wrote "Chin-Fou Temple"( 慶福寺碑),is now a collection of the city museum.

Gloden horn harbor, Vladivostok

There are two golden horn harbors in the world. The Istanbul one is left angle, while the Vladivostok one is right angle and more excellent for there are islets in entrance, axting as a barrier and easy to prevention. From "Google.earth" you can see the satellite image to compare the air impressions.

The Russian Island,Vladivostok

The islets as a barrier of Vladivostok. Of them, the famous is the Russian Island, where the remaining Canon set up at 1903 and fired only one time, is now a place to visit. The pictures here to show the geographic islets. The Google.earth is more recently, but it is an image of satellite.

The sculptures on wall of Old Castle,exclusively on Taiwan

The sculptures of the North Gate of Old Castle is exclusively on Taiwan. There are many old gates remain as Taipei, Hsin-Chu, Tainan, Heng-Chun ( all assigned as varying degree of historic site by the government of Taiwan), but no any other sculpture to be seen elsewhere. This is the pride of Kaohsiung, further more the Tsoying.
I am proud of Tsoyingner

Turtle Hill section,Old Castle, Feng -Shan County

Here is wall of Old Castle,Feng-Shan County,at Turtle Hill. It is like the mouth of a turtle drink the water from Lotus Lake.The path is a main road at that time.There is a famous artist, Kinichiro Ishigawa 1871-1945,born at Shizuoka, Japan, been here to depict the scence of Lotus and Ban-Ping Shan,the hill in another side of Lotus Lake. Mr. Ishigawa is almost a pioneer of modern Taiwan art's renaissance.The famous artist then almost his students until now.
The wall here is destroyed partly by the mainlander since defeat by communist at 1949. They use the wall as part of house,buildings constructed without lincence.Since the democratic development,the wall is recovered by local government, and then assigned as first degree historic site

South Gate, Old Castle,Feng-Shan County 1825

The South gate,Chi-Wen Men( Activated Learning Gate), is also the remaining of the Old Castle. The second floor is newly, reconstructed at late 1960 era. It is occupied by the marine corps since late 1949 and act as major juncture between Tsoying and Kaohsiung Downtown.For the gradually silent Taiwan Strait, the military activity is transfer to another way, the importance of the gate is minimized. Then, the gate is referred to local administratin. It is now the cross point of Chung-Hwa Road and Tsoying Da Road. From the ancient map, it is near the "Snake Hill", now the Tao-Chi Yuan camp of Navy base

East Gate,Old Castle,Feng-Shan County

East Gate of Old Castle, Feng-Shan County,Ching Dynasty. There is a road, Dong-Men Road( East Road) in front the Gate, is the first road of Kaohsiung, even the whole Kaohsiung County and City, Ping-Dong County,and Taidong County( all included in the control of Feng-Shan County), and now only 200 meter remaining. The gate named as "Feng-Yi Men" means phoenix is coming, for it is said the phoenix is coming from eastern side. It is also assigned as first degree historic site by the Interior Department of Taiwan Government.