Laoshan Scenic Area Qingdao

We had a great plan in mind for that day ahead however we managed to fall at the first hurdle. We started the morning off being woken up by a girl who insisted on running everywhere in our dorm room. Not a great start but we were looking forward to climbing Mount Laoshan so we tried to ignore her. Once we were dressed we headed out in the direction …

Saturday's excursion was to a locally famous mountain called 崂山 (Laoshan - shan being mountain, so we Americans are all very redundant whenever we say Mt. ________, such as Mt. Laoshan). We went to the less famous part, so it was slightly less crowded than I think the other areas would be.







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The next Friday marked the start of our week-long homestay. We all gathered in the cafeteria and sat, nervously awaiting the arrival of our homestay families, who were in a different room randomly choosing their foreigners.

Disclaimer – Just to let you know, I have already asked for and received my homestay family's permission to …

... . Now the system is straight forward - visitors only need to purchase a day pass which allows them to take any bus within the Mt. Laoshan Scenic Area. We chose to do a hike in the Taiqing Palace area, taking a cable car up then hike down to Dragon Pool ...