8 or 11 Day Tour: Northern China Landscape Tour - Dalian, Weihai, Qingtao, Jinan, Qufu, Taian
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Depart from West Coast today, board a spacious jet for your transpacific journey and enjoy meals and entertainments in the airplane. |
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Arrive in Beautiful coastal city-Dalian. visit the Tiger Beach, and a typical in city coastal park ~ Xinhai Park, which is composed of a 800-meter-long bow-shaped bathing beach and a 150,000 m2 land garden. Then, we shall You will enjoy seafood hot-pot buffet. |
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Day 4 | |
Today you will visit the largest city square in Asia-Xinhai Square, the North Bridge which is in memory of friendship of China and Japanese, and then pay a visit to the Modern Museum. |
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Day 5 | |
After breakfast you will take a ship to Yantai, a prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong province. Then visit Penglai which is known as a fairy residence in legend, look around Penglai Pavilion. Then, we shall take a bus to Weihai. |
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Day 6 | |
Today you will visit the base for patriotic education-Liugong Island, the Sino-Japanese War Museum which is the main spot where one can understand this unique island, and then go around the Huancui Park. Then you will visit the famous Taoist scenic spots Laoshan and Taiqing Temple. |
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Day 7 | |
Qingdao is a beautiful coastal city that lies at the southern tip to Shandong Peninsula. You will visit Xiaoyushan Hill Park. You can have a bird’s eye view of the city on top of hill .Then visit Zhanqiao Pier, Xiaoqingdao Park, Badaguan, Donghai Scupture Park, May 4th Square. |
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Day 8 | |
After breakfast, you will visit urban Qingdao,
then take a train to Jinan and visit the Daming Lake. Daming Lake
is a natural lake. Its history (as far as the buildings, etc.) goes
back to Northern Wei dynasty (330 AD period). Even Marco Polo mentioned
it in his travel book. The lake is formed by a ton of springs (small
ones, lots of them) and the water flows into the ocean. Then you
will be transferred to Tai’an by train. |
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Day 9 | |
The highlight today is Mt. Tai Scenery Zone (including cable car), which is located in the center of Shandong Province, north of Tai’an City, and it is one of the nation's five "holiest" mountains. Then we shall visit the Dai Temple. Then take a bus to Qufu. |
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Day 10 | |
Today you will l visit Confucius Temple. The temple used to be a place of making sacrifices to Confucius, and now it becomes a historic site under special protection by the government. You also visit the the Confucius Residence, located at the east side of the temple. Then travel to Ji’nan, and visit the famous Baotu Spring. Baotu Spring is one of the 72 famous springs in Jinan. The book "Notes on Water" describes Baotu Spring like, “Spring water gushes out like wheels". The two Chinese words "Bao Tu" mean surging of water. |
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Day 11 | |
After breakfast, you will have time for your own leisure, then fly to Beijing and transfer to the flight for U.S.A by yourself,ending the wonderful 11 days tour. |
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