Qingdao

The largest beer festival in Asia lasts for two weeks and begins with a grand opening ceremony, followed by beer tasting, evening entertainment, drinking competitions, and concludes with a themed final ceremony and “Ganbei". Besides the nectar of the Gods – Beer, there’s tons of food, both Chinese and Western, to gorge on when you get the munchies.

“Qingdao and the Ocean combine a beautiful scenery of harmonious coexistence between mankind and nature. The hundred–year history of Qingdao is a history of growth and development witnessed by the tide and wind of the sea. It is precisely the ocean that has helped to set off the clear–cut landscape of Qingdao and has nurtured the Qingdao people with broadmindedness and bosom of the ocean." –Excerpt from a speech by Mayor Wang Jiarui given at the opening ceremony of the 1999 Qingdao Ocean Festival.
In August 2008, these same waters of the surrounding FuShan Bay were filled with the sails of yachts from all over the world as they participate in the first Olympics ever in China.
“Must See" attractions include: Beach Number One, Qingdao Polar Ocean World, Qingdao Underwater World, the Seaside Sightseeing Pathway that extends from Tuandao to ShiLaoRen Beach.

What is actually lovely about this old part of the Qingdao city is how well preserved it is, and how it can become more brilliant in the future. The old German town is a great place to go for a walk and to flashback to a century ago. There are many back roads to explore with tons of history and Deja Vu. There are also many hilltops where you can catch the beauty of the museum of red-roofed Bavarian architecture that Qingdao is symbolic for. For those that enjoy history and sightseeing, there are many museums, temples and sites to see. Qingdao Beer Festival

Lying between TaiPing and HuiQuan Cape, Badaguan Scenic Area faces the rippling tides of TaiPing Bay to the south and the sands of Bathing Beach No. 3 to the east. Scattered among the coastal flora and fauna, along with many varieties of trees such as peaches, crab-apples, pine trees and ginkgoes, are more than 200 villas of exotic styles. Also known as, the World Architecture Museum, Badaguan due to the large numbers of European villas that criss-cross this scenic area is sometimes referred to as “little Switzerland."

This scenic area was once a place where people from more than twenty countries, such as Germany, the United States of America, Russia, Britain, France, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Japan and etc., constructed buildings in each of their unique national styles.

LaoShan (Lao Mountain), located east of Qingdao, with its magnificent granite peaks watching over the Yellow Sea from heights above one thousand meters, has for centuries made it a place of myth and legend. Known in traditional folklore as the home of immortals, Mount Lao has attracted the admiration of emperors, poets, and priests for more than two thousand years.
There are many temples, historical relics, and monuments on Mount Lao. TaiQing Temple, being 2000 years old, is the largest and oldest of its kind in China. Laoshan was praised by the Ming Dynasty governor Zhao Xian as “The first mountain by the sea."
Most of the cities hot springs are located in Jimo city. WenQuan, a town in Jimo city, has three naturally flowing springs that generally have a temperature of 30°C-60°C. Occasionally these natural hot springs can reach temperatures as high as 93°C. This terrestrial heat is distributed over a 10-hectare area.