Xiamen Tour

Hulishan Fort was built in 1894' and covers more than 70,000 square meters. Located at the Hulishan seashore' on the southern tip of Xiamen Island' the entire Fort is of a bunker-shape and combines European and Chinese styles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The 13.13 meters' 50 tons cannon was purchased from the German Krupp arsenal. It can be rotated 360 degrees' which has an effective range of 16,000 meters. According to the "2000 Guinness World Record Book", it is the oldest cannon in the nineteenth-century.