7-Day China Shandong Culture Tour

Day 1Day 1 Jinan

Sites Visited: Black Tiger Spring, Baotu spring, Daming lake, Shandong museum

•On day 1, upon your arrival at airport, your private local guide will meet you and escort you to the hotel in Jinan. •Jinan, named as ‘Spring City’, has abundant tourism resources. From the Black Tiger Spring - the spring water emerges from a natural limestone cave in a cliff and cascades from three giant stone tiger heads into a wide and open pool, to the Baotu Spring - the icon of Jinan where you can marvel at beautiful springs as well as a number of ancient shrines, pavilions, memorial halls, bridges and steles full of cultural and historical values. •Tips: Daming Lake and Shandong Museum are also worthy to go.

Day 2Day 2 Jinan-Qufu

Sites Visited: Confucius temple, Confucius mansion, family tomb group of Confucius

•On day 2, after breakfast, you will be driven to the Confucius temple. Confucius is a great educator and philosopher, wildly known as ‘eastern Socrates’. Qufu is his hometown so today’s journey is mainly to have a deep contact with this ancient wise man. Besides the Confucius temple, you will also visit the Confucius mansion and the family tomb group of Confucius. •

Day 3Day 3 Qufu-Tai’an

Sites Visited: Taishan Mountain

•On day 3, you will visit Taishan Mountain. It was the first Mountain in this world which was named double heritage by UNESCO. And it is full of the stone inscriptions which has extended for thousand years. The culture of the mountain is deeply associated with traditional Chinese culture. You can see Bixia temple, heavenly street and Jade emperor temple and so on. •

Day 4Day 4 Taian-Zibo

Sites Visited: Qi Heritage Museum, China Ancient Chariots Museum

•On day 4, after breakfast, you will be driven to Zibo city to visit The Ancient City of Zhoucun. After lunch, you will visit Zibo Ceramic And Glass Museum tosee an ancient kingdom once build on Shandong area which is must-visit for art lover. •

Day 5Day 5 Zibo-Weifang

Sites Visited: Weifang World Kite Museum, Yangjiabu Folk Culture Village, Shihu Garden

•On day 5, after breakfast, you will be driven to Weifang to visit the Weifang World Kite Museum. After lunch, you will be driven to Yangjiabu Folk Culture Village. Itis the birthplace of Weifang kites with a long history. At the end of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644), the ancestors have already got excellent kite making skills and they integrated kites with New Year pictures (a form of Chinese colored woodblock print, for decoration during the Chinese New Year). Gradually, Yangjiabu kite has grown its own style with realistic colors and well composed groups.

Day 6Day 6 Weifang-Tsingtao

Sites Visited: Tsingtao Brewery Museum, Badaguan Scenic Resort

•On day 6, after breakfast, you can be driven to the Tsingtao Brewery Museum， where you can watch the exhibition of the complete process of making the beer and taste the freshly brewed beer. After lunch, you will visit Badaguan Scenic Resort and Qingdao No.2 Bathing Beach.

• •Tips: Tsingtao International Beer Festival will be hold on the second weekend in August.

Day 7Day 7 Tsingtao

Sites Visited: Laoshan Mountain Scenic Area,Taiqing Palace, Eight-water river, May Fourth Square and May Fourth Square

•On day 7, after breakfast you will be driven to the Laoshan Mountain Scenic Area. Here you can feel deep culture atmosphere of Daoism and visit Taiqing palace- the Palace of Heaven. Then watch a Daoism Kongfu show after lunch. It concludes both natural and humanic scenery of Chinese traditional religion.

•After that, you will be transferred to Qingdao airport catch your flight to next destination.