2-Day Jinan Standard Tour

- Baotu Springs/Daming Lake/Thousand Buddha Mountain

Trip Highlights - Attractions in Jinan involved: Baotu Springs, Daming Lake, and the Thousand Buddha Mountain. Jinan is a historical city with more than 2600 years history, glorified as "Spring City" for its more than 100 artesian springs in and around the city area. The most popular one is the Baotu Springs, renowned as the "first spring in the world', which is listed as one of the sightseeing in this 2-day Jinan city tour we provide to you. Blessed with spectacular scenic areas that worth traveling, our 2-day city tour in Jinan is one of the most popular city tours in China, attracting many people for traveling every year.
Availability: Daily.      Pick-up Point & Time: Your hotel, 8:30am.      Finishing Point & Time: Your hotel, 5:00pm.      Duration: 2 Days.

Tour Itinerary: (B-Breakfast, L-Lunch, D-Dinner)
Day 01: Arrive in Jinan (D)
Today, our sincere tour guide will pick up you at the Jinan Airport. And then you will be driven to visit the pristine Daming Lake, which is regarded as one of the three must-see tourist spots in Jinan. Afterwards you will be sent to your hotel for rest. Hotel: Yuquan Simpson Hotel 4 star (or similar class)
Day 02: Depart from Jinan (B/L)
In the morning, you are picked up from your 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, your guide will take you to visit 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. Then, you will be sent to the airport for your next destination. (Service End)

Attraction Description
Daming Lake
The Daming Lake is regarded as one of the three must-see tourist attractions in Jinan, together with Baotu Spring and Thousand-Buddha Mountain. With some 800 weeping willows standing along the shores, over 2.7 hectares of the lake is planted with lotuses. Emerald-green lotus leaves, lotus flowers with delicate fragrance, fish swimming in the lake and birds hovering in the sky, all make a...
Baotu Springs
The spring pool of the Baotu spring is fed by an underwater limestone water through three outlets with the pool itself thirty meters long from east to west and twenty meters wide from south to north, the water jets from the spring are said to have reached highs up to twenty-six meters in the past. The water temperature remains constant of 18 degree Celsius through the entire year. The spring is one of four... Thousand Buddha Mountain
Thousand Buddha Mountain was called Mt. Li in ancient times. In the early Sui Dynasty a great number of Buddhas were chiseled on the rocks of the mountain and the Thousand-Buddha Temple was constructed and became famous soon, hence named the mountain the same with that of the temple. The Thousand-Buddha Temple was renamed as Xingguo Temple after renovation during Tang Dynasty...