1-Day Jinan Highlights Tour

- Baotu Springs / Daming Lake

Trip Highlights - Attractions in Jinan involved: Baotu Springs, Daming Lake, and the Thousand Buddha Mountain. Jinan is the capital city of Shandong province, located in the south-western part of Shandong province. With the history of more than 4,000 years, Jinan is one of the cradles of Chinese civilization. Jinan is named as the "Spring City" for its numerous springs, featuring a great number of charming sceneries. Among them, the Thousand Buddha Mountain, Daming Lake and the Baotu Spring come first. So we kindly provide this 1-day Jinan tour to show you the best part of Jinan!
Availability: Daily.      Pick-up Point & Time: Your hotel, 8:30am.      Finishing Point & Time: Your hotel, 5:00pm.      Duration: 8 hours.

Tour Itinerary: (Lunch)
Visitors are picked up from their hotel and escorted to Baotu Springs, one of the most famous and oldest springs in Jinan, with a history spanning over 2,600 years. Afterwards, guests have the chance to see the pristine Daming Lake, regarded as one of the three must-see tourist spots in Jinan. The tour wraps up with a visit to the Thousand Buddha Mountain, home of Buddhism culture in China. During the reign of Emperor Kaihung (581-600AD) in the Sui Dynasty (581-618AD), many monasteries were built along the rocky cliffs. After the tour, guests are escorted back to their hotel. (Service End)  
Attraction Description
Baotu Springs
The Baotu Spring, sometimes as 'Jet Spring' or 'Sqirting Spring', is the most renown cultural spring among the more than 70 named artesian springs in the downtown Jinan City. The spring witnessed the visit of the emperors Kang Xi and Qian Long who left inscriptions at the site. Qian Long even declared the Baotu Spring with the honorary title "Number One Spring under the Heaven". It has been a...   Daming Lake
The Daming Lake, covering an area of 46 hectares, is a largest natural lake located in the north of Jinan City. The lake itself covers an area of 460,000 square metres with an average depth of 3 meters. The lake is the convergence of a number of springs in the city, including the Pearl Spring, the Lotus Spring, and Wangfu Pool, etc. The lake is fed by the artesian karst springs of the area and retains a...
Thousand Buddha Mountain
The Thousand Buddha Mountain, located not far south of downtown Jinan, is one of the key tourist attractions in Jinan City. The mountain occupies an area of 1.66 hectares ranging from east to west with the submit' s elevation of 285 meters above the sea level and over 200 meters from the base. According to an ancient tradition, Emperor Shun - a mythical ruler of China in prehistoric times - had his garden ...