The German Qingdao heredity

Qingdao is different of these cities of the coast of China, which by virtue of the colonial heredity, and the rapid development of last years, can produce to you the sensation of having gone out of China. They say that it has two million inhabitants, but with his endless suburbs they would come to the six. In spite of it, the trace of the Germans, who obtained the authorization of a naval base in 1897, is for doquiera, and even in the new quarters over which the city is spreading, there is discovered an order and a planning which other Chinese cities lack. Big quarters in the city have low, elegant, semisecret houses between the leafy trees, his streets are clean and his elegant inhabitants. It is one of the favorite places of the Chinese to spend the holidays, partly due to the beaches that it has in his outskirts, nothing that a Spanish should envy, therefore there has arisen also a good scale of restaurants that offer seafood at all the prices, and an interesting night life.

Before the arrival of the Germans Qingdao it was only one pueblecito of fishermen, but from 1898 his development was galloping, since the Germans constructed there a naval base, and used the city as a point from which to assure his presence in China, constructing a railroad up to Jinan and establishing several industries, between them, like not, a brewery. The Germans went out of Qingdao in 1914 in favor of the Japanese, but his trace remains until our days.

Qingdao is not a city with big monuments. For it for me the most interesting thing will be to walk along the beaches, the number 6 is the most animated, it seems that for many of the Chinese visitors the best holidays are to walk repeatedly his Seafront, as well as to get a little to the quarters near to the line of coast where you will be able to find a good number of constructions of the colonial epoch. Also you will find on the coast the Park of Lu Xun and the Maritime museum with his Aquarium.

Inside in the city it is possible to rise to the Park Zhongshan, with a good sight on the city and the coast.

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