An etude to the island coast

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Updated: 2008-03-04 16:10

Day 4

Keelung’s Ho Ping Island

At Badouzih outside Keelung, Dong stopped for noodles in a street-side restaurant where local people animatedly argued whether plans to build the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology would be a good thing or turn the local harbor into a Disneyland.

Keelung’s bay cuts deep into its downtown. There are many more slopes than plains within the city, and moreover, the protective Keelung Island and Ho Ping Island scree on both sides of the water.

Ho Ping Island was called Liao Island in the past. In 1626, the Spanish army built castles, churches and fortresses in preparation to do business with China and Japan. The castle on the southwest is called San Salvador. During the Spanish occupation, Ho Ping Island had busy trading activities with Southeast Asia. After World War II, the island was renamed Ho Ping Island. Today, it is famous for diving and sea fishing.

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