Admission: Mount Laoshan: RMB70 (peak season), RMB 50 (off season); includes admission to Liuqing Scenic Area, Jufeng Scenic Area and Yangkou Scenic Area Beijiushui Scenic Area: RMB50 (peak season), RMB 30 (off season) Hualou Scenic Area: RMB 10 (all year) Taiqing Ropeway: RMB50 (round trip), RMB 30 (one-way) Yangkou Ropeway: RMB40 (round trip), RMB 20 (one-way)

Local bus routes: 304, 106 (Special Bus)

This new museum opened in 2011 and contains a stunning collection of ancient Chinese art: calligraphy, bronzes, paintings, ceramics, textiles. They've got it all. Each gallery has bilingual signage to provide background about the pieces, though most of the actual pieced don't have English descriptions.

As Confucius lived and taught in Shandong, there's a gallery about his life with artifacts that illuminate his work and the era he lived in.

The museum is large enough to get a full sense of the region's history and culture, without being so immense that it exhausts or overwhelms.

Mountain Lao is famous for its exotic shapes of rock and the prime location on the sea.

It is called the No. 1 Premier Mountain on the Sea. 

The peak is 1132m in altitude. 

If you like hiking this is definitely the place worth going. 

There is also cable options which sends u directly up to the clouds. 

Small Qingdao Isle is located in the old town, it is in the shape of a violin so in local dialect, we call it the violin island. There is a light house built by the Germans in 1901. It covers an area of only 24.5sqm. 

There is a coffee store on the island. you can drive up there. 

Perfect place to look back at the old town view

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