We took a summer vocation again this year by car. This time, we visited Shandong from July 2nd to 15th.
Day 1, July 2rd, 2011: from Shanghai to Rizhao(日照) and stayed at Rizhao for one night. It took us 7 hours to drive 600 KM. No picture today.
Day 2, July 3rd, 2011: from Rizhao(日照) to Qingdao(青岛). We drove through 胶州湾大桥 and visited Underwater World, the beach and 五四广场 in Qingdao.
Day 3, July 4th, 2011: we climbed the 崂山 from the bottom to the top. 崂山 is 1133 meters high. It took us 6 hours to climb it all the way. It’s amazing to see Isabel and Crystal to climb such a high mountain for them, especially for Isabel. She was totally exhausted and don’t want to climb another mountain again. In the next few days, her first question was almost like this before we went to a new place: “Do they have a mountainer there?”. We left Qingdao to Weihai(威海) late afternoon.
Day 4, July 5th, 2011: “Weihai has the best sands in North part of China”. This is a saying in China. I think this is true.
Day 5, July 6th, 2011: we went to 成山头 to visit 神雕山野生动物园. This is the best zoo that we have ever visited. A lot of interactions between visitors and animals. We had a lot of funs.
Day 6, July 7th, 2011: we took a boat to an island, called 海驴岛. It has thousands of Seabirds on the island, very beautiful and unique place.
Day 7, July 8th, 2011: we stayed on the beach and in the sea whole day today. So, no pictures today.
Day 8, July 9th, 2011: we visited another island, 刘公岛, today. This is where Sino-Japanese War happened in 1894-1895. Late that afternoon, mom has flied from Shanghai to join us in the trip.
Day 9, July 10th, 2011: we drive from Weihai to 蓬莱 today and visited 蓬莱仙阁, 田横山,
Day 10, July 11th, 2011: we drove one day from 蓬莱 to Jinan(济南) and had a big dinner in Jinan. No pictures today.
Day 11, July 12th, 2011: in Jinan, we visited 趵突泉 and 大明湖. Later afternoon, Isabel got sick. We left Jinan to Taian(泰安). When we arrived at Taian, we had to take Isabel to see a doctor. Isabel got some medicine.
Day 12, July 13th, 2011: since Isabel was sick, we only visited 岱庙 today. Isabel felt a little better today after one day’s rest.
Day 13, July 14th, 2011: in the early morning around 6am, I got up by myself and climb the Tarzan mountain by myself. After 3.5 hours, I was at the top. The Tarzan mountain is 1532.7 meters high. Later around 11am, Crystal, Isabel and Mom got to the top by cables. Later afternoon, we drove to Qufu(曲阜), which is our last stop.
Day 14, July 15th, 2011: Qufu is the home of Confucius. We visited 孔庙, 孔府 and 孔林. After 5pm, we started to drive back to Shanghai home. We arrived around 2am the next day morning after 800 KM of driving.
