Cijin Island: Cijin Beach & Cihou Fort

After getting a bite for lunch, I walked up the main road to Cijin Beach.  All I did was take a few photos.  I don’t believe it would have been warm enough to go in the water had you even wanted too and the waves looked strong.  You could see a lot of ships out in the distant Pacific.  

My final destination in Cijin was Cihou Fort.  This Chinese and Western combined-style fort is a late nineteenth century battery designed by an English engineer to protect the harbor.  The fort consists of three parts: the barracks, a central command post, and the battery.  It was after the Qing government took over Taiwan that the fort became a military base with six Chinese-style cannons.  The fort stationed a naval commander and one hundred soldiers.   The fort was occupied by the Japanese army in 1895.  Subsequently, the cannons in the fort were dismantled and melted.  Meanwhile the battery was abandoned and fell to ruins.  During Japanese era the fort was not used.  After World War II, the hill was re-fortified by the Chinese army.  In 1988, Kaohsiung city government started to restore the battery and it was completed in 1992 and opened in 1995.  As a result, a brand new Cihou battery was finally reborn from the past to please tourists.  Admission was free.  I certainly was able to get some great views of the strait, harbor and city.

The next few pics are of the walk through town to get to the fort.

The next pic shows Cijin Beach which I had just come from.

The next pics are of the fort along with some spacious views.

 

After visiting Cijin Island, I took the ferry back across the harbor, walked to the subway, and hopped on to head to my hotel to check-in.  But first, I would stop at the subway’s only interchange station between the two subway lines to take some photos of a sightseeing attraction inside the station…