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Hengchun Ancient City had been constructed in since 1875. During one hundred and thirty years, it experienced several historical tests, such as typhoons, wars, earthquakes, metropolis plan, artificial destruction and improper maintenance etc. At present, due to its original construction and the better scale of Ancient City, Hengchun Ancient City is designated by Ministry of The Interior as the second-class National Heritage Site.

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The founder of Google Earth Blog - Frank Taylor was scheduled to start his round- the-world tour for global sailing tour on 13/Nov/2009 with the location in the Caribbean at the moment. It deeply inspire me by looking at his project of ‘The Tahina Expedition‘ website which for this worldwide tour’s purpose. It indeed touches my heart to see his dream coming true step-by-step.

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The World Games 2009 scheduled for June 16-26 held in Kaohsiung in Taiwan.

There are 37 Sports (including 26 official sports, Invitational sports five, six Sports Park Activities), were carried out in 23 venues, so I list the 23 venues in the left column, click the following can fly to the venues and shows relevant information of the venue, including the appearance of photos, address, telephone number, as well as the sports. If you want to learn more about the content of the sports, after clicking to see the official website for instructions.

At the same time, I also used Chi po-lin’s aerofotos, Walker Young’s 360° panos , Hiroshiken’s metro map as layers. You can turn on those layers to view the beautiful Kaohsiung city.

March is the season which Taiwan’s Indian azalea comes in full bloom. Along the sides of National Taiwan University’s most famous Royal Palm Boulevard, Indian azalea attracts numerous watchers flocking for flower viewing. NTU also holds “Azalea Festival” at the same time, which has already become a major annual event. I think that it would be a pretty good idea to take tours with Street View, but Taipei’s Google Street View is still under construction. At the fastest, the website will take several months to be established. I can’t wait until then, so I think to myself, “Why don’t I set up one?” I’ve just learned some 360 degree panoramic photography techniques recently from a fellow blogger, walker, so I decide to experiment with scenes of NTU’s Royal Palm Boulevard.

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[Google Earth Tour]

Early 21^st of Feburary morning,

There are 240 elite runners standing in front of starting-line of 100 kilometers ultra-marathon challenge race at city Kaohsiung Taiwan .

The race start at five o’clock in the morning, It’s still dark and cold, all the runners has to run from Kaohsiung city cultural center to Shi-Chung-Hsi hot spring resort hotel in Pintung, Within 14 hours is the qualify time for each runner,

The race close at 19:00 sharp.

Mr. Hsueh Ching-Kuang（Backmantony） is the only retro-runner in this race, He spend 13 hours, 20 mimutes, and 43 seconds to run 100 kilometers during the race.

Finnally, There are 200 runner finished the race, and Tony was place at No.145.

Actually, He is the only person to challenge the 100 kilometers in this world！

And He is training for his next 1000 kilometers RETRO RUN challenge around the

Formorsa Island already,

Soon we will look and see what happen in Taiwan ,

What happen retro-running challenge field about Backmantony！

Let us just wait and see what happen in Taiwan！

BackmanTony writes the history with retro-running. For expressing to his esteem, I used my most familiar Google Earth to record this courses, if the above video can not meet your need, I prepare another video(800 x 640) from my webserver. Or you can download this KMZ Collection , enter the Google Earth 5.0 to watch voluntarily.

I saw a video clip yesterday, which expresses a connection of various ethnic groups. It weaves the story by means of zooming technology: closing up and zooming out. This is a student term task of NTU “An introduction on the relationship of People and environment” in 2006.

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