Thousand Buddha Mountain
I recommend visiting Thousand Buddha Mountain every few days during your stay in Jinan. Admission to the mountain costs 15 yuan, or you can purchase a year pass for 45 yuan. While there are many entrances to the grounds on all sides of the park, year passes can only be obtained at the Zheng Men (正门), or main gate. The main gate is at the southern end of Qian Fo Shan Road (千佛山路, and the ticket office to the right of the gate sells year passes. Be sure to bring a passport photo in order to acquire the year pass.
 | There is a totally cool copper Buddha figure which measures 80 feet (25 m) in height. At the foot of the Buddha visitors can roller-skate or burn incense and pray. |
Fly an eagle kite, bring a book or some playing cards, or just sit back and watch the local Chinese and foreign communities of Jinan stretch their legs together. Just to the west of big Buddha is a large concrete statue of Guanyin, a female Buddha, sitting atop a labyrinthine cave complex.
Jogging, sitting, singing, and tai chi all take place throughout the extensive grounds. Plenty of public art displays within the gradens make for an enjoyable morning or afternoon stroll. Still, the best part of the grounds is the mountain itself. Climbing a little in elevation to improve your view of Jinan is simply great. Sometimes we all just need to get out of the morass and gain perspective. When you reach the summit of Thousand Buddha Mountain look to the south of Jinan....into the mountain range which leads up to Mount Tai... the foremost Taoist peak in China!
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A nice place and nice people there!
I was there in April this year visit my friend, and she took me to the Thousand Buddha Mountain which is really nice and beautiful.
We went there really early so we met many old local people there to do exercise there, and i some a group they were doing the Tai chi, so i just stood there try to imitate what they are doing and want to study a bit, and the leader saw me, a old man around 70 years old i guess, he waved to me and let me to join them, and he taught me some easy one too, i was so happy about that, some moves are really hard but i can still remember few and showing to my friends all the time, because it`s the really Tai chi from China, haha.