Porihwa Hotel Qingdao

... views are spectacular, and somehow it also has the glimse of lifestyle from a big city. Thus to say, mixture of everything.

Definitely worth the visit, and the coldness...


Hightlights of visits:
. The Protestant Church(基督教堂 )
. Jiaozhou Governor's Hall (提督府), office building of former German governors [Gouverneurspalast] and former municipal government

... down the hills, we finally settled on a slightly outward hill...it's only 3:30pm and the sun is already preparing for the day-off......Point to note for the sunset fans, you gotta start early for that in Qing Dao. By 4:30pm the whole sunset process is done and we went for some city sightseeing, christmas trees and decos are all around already, nice lights there.

So today is the day for Peng Lai. The weather wasn't that favourable for shooting today. Bit misty/foggy. So I did focus bit more on the details of the architectures with the 70-300mm zoom and my DC for snapshots.

For anyone who never heard of Peng Lai before. Firstly it's claimed to be one of the prettiest natural scenary in the world. Different seasonal and day-change views, namely the Mirage (
海市蜃楼). Secondly, it's ...

Occupied by Germans during WWII, beers have been a signature beverages of Qing Dao thereafter. Today we went to the Beer museum, seeing the 100 years of this well-known chinese beer. Enormous varieties, you name it, they have it. Awesome library of information!

It's also linking to the production packing session as demo, cans and bottles are all in ...

We started with city tours to tower, St.Michael's Cathedral.

Finally, we setup our tripods in Zhan Qiao (Pier, 栈桥), at the temperature of -6 degrees for night scenes capture.....runny noses, frozen hands, shaky lens...

Highlights of the day:
. Ba Da Guan (Eight Great Passes, 八大关), the older area of town with some surviving German and Japanese architecture ...

... with a small bowl of rice which is usually around 4 Yuan, oh no, this is Shandong they told me and the price here is 10 Yuan. I gave them 5 Yuan and left with them yelling after me. If it was the large bowl it would be worth around 8 Yuan but I asked for the small but it is still egg and tomato and it still costs the same.

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... ended up finding Bathing Beach #6 (yes, that is literally it's name. It was okay, I don't have a swimsuit and we didn't wanna get all dirty right before a long bus ride. We crawled on the rocks and played in tide pools for a while, then walked out onto the pier. Then, I had to go to the bathroom, so we went and got shakes at McDonalds to use the free bathrooms! Then we wandered around the market and decided to ...

... beetles, and grasshoppers mounted in glass cases; 'Precious Moments' porcelain figurines; figurines of pigs kissing; and all kinds of other stuff. So I bought a couple of pig figurines and a can opener. The outdoor observation deck is much nicer: one because there is no one selling anything, and therefore no obstructed views, and two because the smoke from everyone's cigarettes doesn't hover over your head. Qingdao is a large, sprawling city cornered by the sea and some steep ...

24.09.04, quingdao, game over? ok, ich verlasse heute dalian und komme vielleicht in 2-3 tagen in hongkong an....bye frank... hoffentlich bekomme ich immer gleich n zugticket...bye so, jetzt isses 12 h spaeter.... 6h faehre fuer 8,5 euro, dann 3 h bus fuer 3 euro, dann morgen 30 ...