Qingdao is a super touristic place because it is next to the beach; it has a beer museum and good and cheap local sea food. What best describes our stay is Beach, Busy, Boulevard, Beer, Bite and Bus. Beach. After breakfast we went to see the beach and the yellow sea. Close to the city center, about an hour walking from our hostel, are a few beaches. One of the beaches also has a small Chinese house/pavilion on an island which is accessible via a bridge, see p...

Next stop: Qingdao. Also here we had problems finding a place to sleep, but we got free dinner because we drank a beer with some local people. In the morning we left the city of Qufu to go (with a change of trains in Jinan) to Qingdao. Qingdao is a rather big city, about 6 million inhabitants, in the same province as Jinan, the Shandong province. It is located near the yellow sea in the east of China. It took us about two-and-a-half hours to get there from Ji...