(A) Local Characteristics
1. Oriental Switzerland
Qingdao back mountains facing the sea, green trees everywhere, the climate is very mild and pleasant. There are only 65 days of summer each year. The hottest month of summer, August, the temperature is only 25.1 degrees Celsius. People call Qingdao "summer resort" and "summer paradise".
As a tourist city of Qingdao, there are Neolithic ruins such as Sanlihe, the Great Wall of Qi, Tianheng Island, Luangshi Terrace, Zhushan Grottoes and other famous monuments; Laoshan's treacherous peaks and rocks and downtown's seashore scenery and the formation of countless scenic spots; there are Narayan Grottoes, the Baiyun Cave and other magical caves; there are Taiyi, the gods of the water, the Golden Liquid Spring and other famous streams and clear. Ancient celebrities such as Zheng Xuan, Qiu Changchun, Zhang Sanfeng, Li Bai, Gu Yanwu, Pu Songling, Gao Fenghan, Kang Youwei, etc. have left beautiful poems and writings all over the place. During the summer season, the sea bathing beaches are often visited by hundreds of thousands of people a day. New hotels have been built. The former German Governor's residence and the Palace of King Gong, has also been opened to the public.
Qingdao is rich, but also beautiful, as Comrade Chen Yi in & lt; & lt; first visit to Qingdao & gt; & gt; said in the poem: "Try to see the sea and sky green, its green market place. Try to see the pines and cypresses green, the green dye peaks."
2. Sea fairy mountain
Laoshan because of the secluded corner of the sea, steep mountains and dense forests, beautiful scenery and not easy to climb, since ancient times known as the "fairy cave house", "the first sea fairy mountain". Various magical legends and stories have been passed down among the green mountains and beautiful waters. According to historical records, Emperor Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty both visited Laoshan. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty sent people into the mountain to refine the medicine of longevity, and renamed Laoshan as "Auxiliary Tangshan". Historically, Laoshan was an important place for the spread of Taoism. At its peak, it was said that there were "nine palaces, eight guan and seventy-two nunneries". The Taiching Palace on the mountain was built in the late Tang Dynasty, Taiping Palace and Shangqing Palace were built in the early Song Dynasty, all of which have a history of more than a thousand years. At present, the only monastery in the mountain is Huayan Temple, built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Due to the appreciation of successive emperors and the esteem of famous Taoist priests, many literati have come to Laoshan throughout the ages, including Li Bai, Su Dongpo, Wen Zhengming, Gu Yanwu, Zheng Banqiao, Pu Songling, Kang Youwei, Yu Dafu and so on.
(B) the best time to travel
Qingdao's climate is pleasant, warm and humid in spring and fall, and summer temperatures remain cool and comfortable at about 20-28 degrees Celsius. The golden season for tourism can last from the end of March until the beginning of November, especially in late August, when the sea water is warm, which is the golden season for seaside tourism. Qingdao's winter is cold and windy, the sea water is not frozen, but it has been cold to zero degrees, if you have a strong body and enough courage, you can go to try winter swimming.
(C) Scenic spots
Trestle bridge First sea water bathing beach Second sea water bathing beach
Ocean Park Beijiu Shui Tianheng Island
Xuejia Island Zhanshan Temple Seafood Museum
Taicheng Palace Little Qingdao Xiaoyushan
Flower stone building Qingdao Ocean University Baiguanshan
Welcome Hotel Wusi Square Jimo Hot Springs
Kang Youwei's former residence Qingdao "Diaoyutai" Qingdao International Beer City
Christ Church Shangqing Palace Naval Museum
Signal Hill Park Princess Building Longtan Waterfall
Taiping Palace Love Corner Huiquan Square
Catholic Church Lu Xun Park Zhongshan Park
Jufeng Mingxia Cave marshal Building
(D) Recommended Itinerary:
Laoshan Day Trip
Day 1
Taiqing Palace - Mingxia Cave - Shangqing Palace - Longtan Waterfall - Taiping Palace
Morning tour of Laoshan Mountain (entry fee of 50 yuan), visit the famous Taoist temple of Taiqing Palace (entrance fee of 15 yuan), and the Mingxia Cave and the Shangqing Palace (admission fee of 10 yuan), watch the Dragon Lake waterfall, and in the afternoon drive to the Taiping Palace to visit the Huayan Temple, and in the afternoon drive to the Taiping Palace to visit the Huayan Temple. Taiping Palace to visit Huayan Temple.
Qingdao Day Trip
Day 1
Hua Shi Lou - Qingdao "Diaoyutai" - Marshal's House - Xiaoyushan - Seafood Museum - Trestle Bridge - Little Qingdao - The First Sea Water Bathing Ground
In the morning, we will visit the famous villa group of Bada Guan, including Hua Shi Lou (entrance fee of 5 RMB), Marshal's House and Xiaoyushan Park (entrance fee of 10 RMB). etc. and Xiaoyushan Park (admission 12 yuan), and then go to the Aquarium to watch marine fish animals (admission 30 yuan in high season, 20 yuan in low season), and in the afternoon visit the Trestle Bridge, Little Qingdao (admission 15 yuan), and swim in the seaside bathing beaches.
(V) local accommodation
Qingdao's high-grade hotels are mostly in the city's southern district of the sea, towards the sea tide, the evening listening to the sea waves, summer daytime sea water bathing, unique, some hotels are also set up seawater swimming pools, you can enjoy the blue sea, blue skies, sunshine, the gift of the beach, can be said to be a happy one. In the seaside and the island, in recent years, also organized a number of new resorts, such as Sanlian Tianheng Island Resort, Laoshan Yangkou Oriental Resort, Haier Resort, Double Star Resort and so on.
Qingdao existing star hotel more than 40, the following to recommend you a few of the unique features of the hotel. Of course, Qingdao city also has a lot of popular hotels, guest houses, mainly concentrated in the area of the railway station, accommodation is much cheaper.
Haitian Hotel (five-star)
Features: Every room is a sea view room.
Address: Block A, No. 48, West Hong Kong Road
Shangri-La Hotel (5-star)
Features: the Grand Ballroom is the largest meeting place in Shandong Province.
Address: No.9 Middle Hong Kong Road
Regent Hotel (5-star)
Features: the first 5-star hotel in Shandong Province, with beautiful scenery, luxurious decoration, and walking distance to the beach.
Address: No.1 Taiwan Road
Huiquan Dynasty Hotel (5-star)
Features: located next to the First Sea Water Bathing Beach, walking distance to the Trestle Bridge, with Qingdao's only high-rise revolving restaurant.
Address: No.9 Nanhai Road
Oriental Hotel (4 Stars)
Features: Located by the mountains and the sea, the environment is elegant, and the food is unique, with the reputation of "food in the East".
Address: No. 4, University Road
Small Bridge Hotel (three-star)
Characteristics: German-style architecture, nostalgic classics, Qingdao's earliest ballroom, movie theater.
Address: No.31 Taiping Road (East of Trestle Bridge)
Ocean Express Hotel (Three Stars)
Features: Located in Qingdao's largest shopping mall - opposite to Jiashek, with the municipal center, Wusi Square, close at hand.
Address: No. 61, Middle Hong Kong Road
Wushengguan Hotel
Characteristics: Ideal accommodation situated in Badaguan.
Bihaiwan Hotel
Address: No.4 Taipingjiao Road, West Hongkong Road
Qingdao Police Reserve Retreat
Characteristics: Located in Qingdao's university town, surrounded by Internet cafes, is the first choice of young students traveling on their own to stay.
Address: Taipei Road, Xinzhu intersection (near Qingdao University)
(F) Catering
Qingdao is rich in valuable sea cucumbers, scallops, abalone, conch, prawns, gaji fish, etc., which determines the characteristics of Qingdao cooking to sea food ingredients. Traditional Qingdao banquets have a certain degree of sophistication, and the common ones are "four-sixteen" and "four-twenty-eight" specifications. The order of serving requires that first cold and then hot, first salty and then sweet, every seat must be fish, no sea cucumber is not a big seat. Eat seafood depends on the season, spring and summer is the best season, absolutely let you eat no longer want to eat meat. Of course, be careful, there are a lot of tourists first arrived in Qingdao due to the temptation to not be able to withstand seafood, eat too much, the results ...... (imagine).
Qingdao has the northern characteristics of the seafood feast, but also a variety of Shandong characteristics of flavorful snacks. Noodle spread, dumplings hot and boiling. Northern cuisine is thick in flavor and requires good digestion. Qingdao celebrity chefs gathered, the concentration of sea food, and the reputation of Qingdao beer and Laoshan mineral spring at home and abroad to accompany the meal, the taste is really wonderful!
In the snack street, you can enjoy the local flavor of Qingdao snacks, there are rare fun in the big restaurant. The "Chai Chai Yuan", located on Jiangning Road between Zhongshan Road and Hebei Road, is a famous snack street in Qingdao. In addition to this, there are Dalmaidao Seafood Street, Yunxiao Road Zhongyuan Food Street, Huiquan Snack Street, Shuangxing Eating Street, Taishan Road Barbecue Street, Chang'an Food Street, etc., which are a collection of flavors from all over the world, and are a gourmet's paradise.
Qingdao ten special flavor
Yingzhou Spanish mackerel snacks:
Qingdao Hotel traditional snacks, has more than 50 years of history.
Steamed red island oysters:
Qingdao Xiaohonglou catering center special brand, with ginger vinegar consumption is particularly good.
Meigue cold noodles:
Qingdao Xinya food city seafood cuisine.
Guxiangcun Prawn Noodle:
Qingdao Guxiangcun Noodle House exclusive.
Yingzhou Clam Set Meal:
Qingdao restaurant seafood brand.
Meidar Grilled Squid:
Meidar Grill exclusive.
Dafune Light Fish Set Meal:
Wonton King fast food restaurant exclusive, only Qingdao unique.
Fish in casserole:
Specialty brand of Wanhechun Restaurant.
Bao Island Seafood Emerald Noodle:
Exclusive to Bao Island Restaurant.
Great Wall Seafood Stove Buns:
Exclusively operated by Great Wall Restaurant, has become a public specialty.
(VII) Entertainment
Qingdao entertainment centered in the eastern part of the new downtown area and Shilantao National Resort.
The "Hong Kong Street" on the shore of Fushan Bay and the 12-kilometer seaside Chinese civilization sculpture promenade, the Ocean Amusement City, the dolphin show house, the International Beer City, the Sea Paradise, the golf course, and other facilities make up Qingdao's colorful entertainment life. However, the best entertainment in such a seaside and harbor city is to go out to sea. Go to the nearby islands to blow the sea breeze, cook some seafood, life is cozy at this time.
Qingdao's many bars, like bar friends can go not far from the first sea water bathing beach, Huiquan Dynasty Hotel on the first floor of the "fire Nururu Lu Lu" to feel, this is the local small famous bar.
(H) shopping
If you want to shop in Qingdao, you may want to walk on Zhongshan Road. Zhongshan Road is beautiful at night, and Qingdao One Hundred, Parkson and so on are still worth a visit. There are also two hypermarkets on Hong Kong Road in the Eastern New District, namely "Jiashek" at the mouth of Fuzhou South Road and "Carrefour" at the mouth of Nanjing Road.
Qingdao in the country belongs to the lower prices of the city, the product in addition to the seashore characteristics of the products, as well as Shandong characteristics of the encapsulated food. Tourist commodities in the purchase should be careful, more extreme is abusive.
Shopping in Shandong is more difficult to bargain, for one thing, it was not very expensive, and secondly, Shandong people do not want to bother with words. Seafood in the local beauty after the meal try not to carry, because of the difficulty of preservation.
(IX) Transportation
Aviation
Qingdao Liuting International Airport is 32 kilometers from the city center, the routes are well-connected, to and from more than 30 cities across the country, the industry has opened to Japan, Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Seoul, South Korea, Singapore, as well as Hong Kong, Macao, and other international and regional passenger routes. Civil aviation ticket office in Zhongshan Road, No. 29 (Hunan intersection, the present stack bridge).
Reminder: Qingdao's airport buses are medium-sized buses, which can't seat several people at a time, so if you don't want to take a taxi, you need to get on the bus early to get a place. Also, out of the Liuting airport taxi, please note that you must take the silver-white roof of the Qingdao cab, the kind of yellow roof of the Chengyang District, Laoshan District, or other county-level city cabs can not enter the Qingdao city.
Railroad
Qingdao Railway Station is located at No.2 Tai'an Road near Trestle Bridge.
Qingdao has 24 pairs of trains **** daily to and from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jinan, Taishan, Heze, Yantai, Weihai, Wuchang, Nanchang, Xuzhou, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Xining, Chengdu, Taiyuan, Dandong, Tonghua and other places. In addition to the direction of Zibo, Yantai, Weihai, the rest of the times are stopping in Jinan.
Reminder: If you come to Qingdao by train, don't take a taxi in the train station parking lot after getting off the train, the cabs in the station are usually bargaining (not playing the table), and they won't run a short trip. If you are looking for a cheaper ride, you can take a taxi on the street outside the train station square.
Highway
Qingdao highway traffic is very developed, so far, Qingdao has built seven highways, including Jiqing, Jiaozhou Bay, Xiliu, Shuangliu, Weilai, Qilai, Qingyin and so on.
Qingdao Railway Station Square, there are sent to Weihai, Yantai, Penglai Iveco buses, water buses, to Yantai as long as more than 3 hours, the ticket price of more than 30, to Weihai, Penglai, as long as 4 hours, the ticket price of more than 40, the road condition is very good, take the highway. To go to Jinan also first take the 5-way tram to the coach station, where there is a Jinan-Qingdao high-speed bus, to Jinan only 4.5 hours, the ticket price of 79 yuan.
Qingdao bus station
Address: Wenzhou Road, No. 2 (Hangzhou Road under the overpass)
Qingdao bus station
Address: Guantao Road, No. 46 (Guangdong intersection)
Qingdao bus station
Address: Harbin Road
Qingdao bus station to the province and abroad, the vast majority of long-distance buses in the morning. The buses are sent to the city's various county-level cities in the city's water.
Water transportation
Qingdao has two international passenger shipping lines, year-round, every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 16:00 to Incheon, South Korea; every Tuesday and Friday 16:00 to Shimonoseki, Japan.
Qingdao Port Passenger Terminal is located at No.6 Xinjiang Road.
Buses
Because of the undulating terrain, bicycles are almost impossible to find in Qingdao, and motorcycles are rare, making buses the main means of transportation in the city. Qingdao's public transportation is very convenient, with all roads and no one to sell tickets. Brand new buses are clean inside and out. The single fare for buses is 1 yuan, and the single fare for air-conditioned buses is 2 yuan. Bus 26, 201, 202 buses are along the beach, through the Trestle Bridge, Badaiguan and many other attractions, the starting point is the ferry or train station.
The most convenient and comfortable way to travel to Qingdao is to take the air-conditioned tourist line. All three lines are equipped with high-level luxury air-conditioned tour buses (28 Xiamen Golden Dragon). The whole process is equipped with professional tour guide service.
Go to Laoshan (Taiqing scenic area) can take the 304 road, from the ferry, the train station (Trestle Bridge) all the way to Laoshan, the whole process is close to the beach walk. Of course, you can also participate in the Laoshan one-day tour, the hotels have a proxy, most of the tours are only to go to the Taiqing scenic area. If you want to go to the Beijushui and Yangkou scenic area, you can take the tour bus at Huaneng Square from 7:00-10:30 am every day.
Taxi
Taxis are now mainly Santana and Jetta. The starting fee is 7 yuan for 4 kilometers, 1.2 yuan per kilometer thereafter, and 1.5 yuan per kilometer at night from 22:00 to 05:00 the next day. It's a little more expensive than other cities, but the starting mileage is longer.
Reminder: foreign tourists may feel that Qingdao's cabs like to go around in circles, in fact, Qingdao's traffic is very distinctive, a lot of roads are one-way, often seen on one side of the road is four lanes on the other side of the road is only a bus lane, which is done to improve the speed of the car to ease the pressure of the traffic, so sometimes feel that you can go directly to the place where you have to detour a little bit, if foreign tourists a little bit of understanding, will not cause too many disputes. The first thing you need to do is to get to the center of the city.
Ferry
Qingdao's old city and Huangdao ferry routes between the two sides of the Jiaozhou Bay to strengthen the link, if you go around the Jiaozhou Bay Expressway, the two places are 84 kilometers away from each other, and the ferry as long as 20 minutes to half an hour, foggy days stop.
Ordinary boat: the first 06:30, the last 21:00, every half hour, the fare is 6 yuan.
High-speed boat: the first 07:10, the last 18:30, every 20 minutes, the fare is 8 yuan.
Qingdao - Xuejiadao (Anzi Pier)
High-speed ferry: first 07:00, last 18:10, every half hour.
Ferry Company Qingdao Passenger Terminal Advisory Phone: 2619279
Ferry Company Huangdao Passenger Terminal Advisory Phone: 6856949
Ferry Company Xuejiadao Passenger Terminal Advisory Phone: 6705247
Cruise Ships
Laiyang Road Sea Tourism Pier is located north of the Naval Museum, where there are round trips to and from Little Qingdao, Lu Xun Park, Taipingjiao and other places, is a tourist program of great interest to mainland tourists.
Zhongyuan Sea Square Tourist Terminal is located in Xilingxia Road, where there is not only a panoramic tour route to Maidao for sightseeing of Qingdao's downtown seashore, but also an excursion route to two small islands in the Yellow Sea (Zhuchao Island and Dagong Island).
(10) Notes
Tour of Qingdao essential items:
1, a change of clothes: to try to bring easy to dry a change of clothes, because playing on the beach will inevitably accidentally wet clothes, and the air in the coastal city is relatively wet; Qingdao's cool climate, even in summer trips, but also prepare for long-sleeved clothes; in order to facilitate the beach, the sea play in the water, bathing suits, shorts should be brought. The first thing you need to do is to bring your own clothes to the beach.
2, shoes: bring a pair of sneakers, easy hiking or long-distance journey; sandals must bring water-resistant, preferably flat-heeled, slippers like better, to Qingdao you will find that the street is full of people wearing slippers, more relaxed.
3, sunscreen items: to remember to bring sunscreen, sunglasses, sunny days, the beach sun is very powerful.
4, drugs: to Qingdao can not not eat seafood, so be sure to bring antidiarrheal drugs and drugs to treat allergies, in case you eat seafood will be uncomfortable