Hong Kong Lung Fu Shan Country Park
Lung Fu Shan Country Park (delineated on the date of December 18, 1998) is a country park in Hong Kong's Western District. It is Hong Kong's newest undated. The park covers an area of about 47 hectares, is the smallest of Hong Kong's country parks, it is covered with Lung Fu Shan wooded hillside, because the neighboring residential area, convenient transportation, so popular with morning walkers welcome.
Lung Fu Shan Country Park offers many amenities, there are two picnic sites, barbecue pits, signs, toilets, a fitness facility, pedestrian trails, shelters, observation deck and other recreational facilities, and a plantation, boil water, plumbing In particular spaces and racks, and other facilities. These tea facilities, racks, fitness pebble path and other special facilities are provided by the other country parks bad idea.
A pine forest fort on the hill Lung Fu Shan Country Park, is built in the 1903 military sites, compared with other coastal defense fort, three hundred and seven meters above sea level in the pine forest fort located at the high ground to the terrain to said that, in fact, the crown of Hong Kong fort. The original gun bed, podium and shelters more than a dozen, and still save quite complete.
Lung Fu Shan fort is located in the northwest of Hong Kong Island, its role and Lei Yue Mun same, is used to protect through Victoria Harbor to the west and out of the vessel, is a fort on the sea. In that year the British Lung Fu Shan fort on heavily planted, and all kinds of artillery, the defense of Hong Kong Island.
Shortly after the completion of the fort, in the 1920s, converted air defense fort during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, fort many times by the Japanese air raid, and on December 15, 1941 after the Japanese air force air strikes. Artillery stationed dead and another injured, of which one anti-aircraft gun and some other facilities were also destroyed, therefore, decided to abandon the fort garrison Zhihui Bu, artillery stationed on the same day ordered to evacuate. Pinewood Battery would then complete the historic task.
Scenic Area Address: Hong Kong Central and Western hilltop garden on the south side
Car lines: 1, in Central No. 15 bus or minibus can take the No. 1 or No. 515 North Point pier by bus, arriving Peak (Victoria Gap), go along Harlech Road. 2, in the ring 13 by a bus or channel and 3A minibus to Xu, to walk along Park Road Hatton.