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A hospitable historical city, it is also called the 'City of Springs', famed for its numerous springs and relics. A carefully devised tour package for your visit to Jinan will include sightseeing trips to Baotu Springs, Daming Lake and the Thousand Buddhas' Mountain. We also journey to the nearby cities of Tai'an and Qufu, places that will greatly enrich your tour with visits to the notable Mt. Tai, Daimiao Temple and other attractions that will help you explore the deep rooted Confucian culture. What's more, there will be the chance to savour the dainty Shangdong Cuisine.

JN01 : Jinan - Qufu - Mt. Tai

As one of the cradles of Chinese Civilization, Shandong province has influenced the development of many historic cities. Jinan, “the city of Springs”, is best known for the Baotu and Black Tiger Springs. Qufu, the birthplace of Confucius, possesses many traditional Chinese cultural sites including the Mansion, Temple and Forest of Confucius. Tai'an, at the foot of Mt. Tai, gained its name from the sacred mountain, which has been regarded as first of China's Five Holy Mountains.

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JN02 : Travel to Shandong Province

Tourists who take this option will have the opportunity to view magnificent natural beauties, Holy lands, Buddhist cultural sites and the setting for the classical Chinese work of literature “Water Margin” with its 108 heroes.

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Jinan Hot Spots:

San Kong (Three Confucius) - This is phrase called as a joint name of the Confucius/Kong Family Mansion (Kong Fu), the Confucius Temple (Kong Miao) and the Confucius Forest (Kong Lin). There are Confucius Temple to worship at lots of capital cities and town seats in the country. However, Qufu has the largest one. Apart from this magnificent huge building complex, it also reserves the Kong Family's mansion hereditary for more than seventy generations and Kong Family's graveyard (a vast artificial garden meanwhile) one time larger than the county seat of Qufu.

Mt. Tai - Also called Tai Shan, Tai Yue, Dong Yue and etc, Mt. Tai (Tai Shan) is one of the five greatest mountains in China. In ancient times, the mountain was always a shrine for the emperors to offer ceremonial sacrifices to heaven and earth. Architectures in the mountain are mainly Ming and Qing styles, combining with paintings and stone sculptures. Sunrise is one of the most spectacular scenes of Mt. Tai. March to November is the high season to visit. 
 
Baotu Spring - Reportedly, Baotu Spring tops the first place among the seventy-two famous springs of Jinan City, and it is also the earliest of them who was included in history records. Early in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the spring with clear and sweet water pouring out had become the top scenic spot of Jinan. In the east of the spring, there is a pavilion for visitors to make tea with boiled spring water. Located in the city center, the spring is backed by the Thousand-Buddha Mountain in the south and beautiful Daming Lake in the north. They are the three major places of interest of Jinan.

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