Travel Guide
Hot Travel Places
Baotu Spring Park
Baotu Spring Park is located in downtown of Jinan City, South Baotu Spring Road and Middle Luoyuan Street, south to Qianfo Mountain, east to Quancheng Squre, and with Daming Lake to the north. It is a unique garden of 158 mu with springs as its main landscape.Baotu Spring, also named Zhan Spring, is the headwater of Luo Shui, enjoying a history of 2700 years.
Landscape level: AAAA
Opening time : 7:00--22:00
Ticket price : 40 Yuan
Telephone: 0531-6920439
Address : No.1 South Baotu Spring Road, Lixia District, Jinan City.
Daming Lake
Situated in Downtown of Jinan, Daming Lake is one of the three most famous scenic spots in Jinan. It is a natural lake which is the confluence of many springs in Jinan.Spring water afflux from south shore, and effuse from north floodgate on north shore which is built in Bei Song when it is full. characteristically unique is its constant water level, unaffected by heavy rains or drought. Around the lake are 800 weeping willows and over 40mu lotuses, which form a graceful view of “a city surrounded by lovely lotuses and weeping willows; a city embraced by picturesque mountains and enchanting lakes”.
Landscape level: AAAA
Opening time : 6:30-17:30 in low season; 6:30-18:30 in midseason.
Ticket price : 30 Yuan
Telephone: 0531-86088910 86088900
Address : No.271 Minghu Road, Lixia District, Jinan City.
Qianfo Mountain
Qianfo Mountain ranks as a screen from east to west, with beautiful scenery. There are 3 serpentine windling pathway for climing in the north part, with adumbral pines on both sides. If it is inconvenient for you to climbe, you can also ride on the road in the east part. Many places of interest are on the mountain.
Ropeway ticket: 20 Yuan for one-way ticket, 30 Yuan for round-trip ticket.
Telephone: 0531-82662322
Address : No.18, 11th Jing Road, Jinan City, Shandong Province.
Food
Jinan food is famous for lite & delicious, fresh & soft and pure taste. The taste for each dish is distinct, even in a hundred dishes. Cooking with bisk is one of the characteristics of Jinan food. The famous snacks including: fried dumpling, soup dumpling, Pansi pancake, sweet crisp pancake, Luohan pancake, Jinqian crisp pancake, braised Mi Sandao, dumplings, etc.
Cuisine Streets:
Jinan Cuisine Street(former 11th Jing Road Snack Street, near provincial sports center): Dozens of flavor snack bars are gethered here, which can supply thousands of famous snacks from the whole country.
Jinan Weijiu Road Street--A street of barbecue
Jinan Quancheng Road--A street of western food
Shopping
Famous artwares in Jinan: embroidery, basalt, muyu stone, dough figurine, feather picture, texture, etc.
Local speciality: minghu lotus root, pingyin e jiao, beiyuan typha latifolia L, hawthorn, walnut and taishan white pear, etc.
Among them, Pingyin E Jiao is a kind of valuable traditional Chinese medicine, the prices are ranked from dozens yuan to hundreds yuan according to quality.
The most bustling commercial street is Grand View Garden vicinity on Quancheng Road, Renmin shopping center vicinity and South Gate vicinity are also busy commercial blocks.
Accommodation
Discounted prices for standard rooms of star hotels in Jinan are as follows: No less than 320 yuan for Four Stars; At least 220 yuan for Three Stars; Above 160 yuan for Two Stars; Standard rooms equivalent to One Stars charge for about one hundred yuan.
Hotels Recommended
Shandong News Building
Feature: Superior geographical position; Convenient transportation
Recommendation reason: You can overlook Spring City Square, Baotu Spring and Qianfo Mountain from the window, and take all Jinan beautiful sceneries into your eyes.
Address: No. 6 Luoyuan Street, Lixia District
Price: 398 yuan
Nearby Scenic Spots: Qianfo Mountain, Spring City Square, Baotu Spring and In Zone Plaza
Sofitel Silver Plaza
Feature: Superior geographical position; Convenient transportation
Recommendation reason: It only take about 10 minutes from the hotel to Qianfo Mountain, Daming Lake and other famous scenic sites by bus.
Address: No. 66 Luoyuan Street, Lixia District
Price: 716 yuan
Nearby Scenic Spots: Spring City Square, Baotu Spring, In Zone Mall, Qianfo Mountain and Daming Lake
Runhua Century Hotel
Feature: Excellent service; Convenient transportation
Recommendation reason: It only take about 5 minutes to train station by car, and you can walk to large commercial shopping area in 10 minutes.
Address: No. 138, 2nd Dawei Road, Shizhong District
Price: 298 yuan
Nearby Scenic Spots: Baotu Spring, Daming Lake, Qianfo Mountain and Hero Mountain
Entertainment
You can have a joyful and comfortable tour in Jinan. Exciting and fascinating morden entertainment facilities can be found everywhere.
Entertainment Places Recommended
Hao Ledi KTV(Shunjing Street)
Address: No.1 Shunjing Street
Telephone: 0531-86039999
New Century Cinema
Address: 4th Floor, Wanda Shopping Mall, No.339 Quancheng Road
Golden Family Stage(Quancheng Road)
Address: Quancheng Road
Jinan Folk Festivals
There are various folk festivals in Jinan, including Jinan ethnic folklore travel festival, Minghu Folk Ballad Travel Cultural Festival, Jinan Float Parade, Ming Lake Lotus Flower Festival, Qianfo Mountain Fair, Jinan Spring City Square International Art Concert, Tourism Painting Festival, International Food Festival, Zhangqiu Longshan Cultural Festival, Pingyin Rose Festival, etc.
Qianfo Mountain Fair
It's a custom in Jinan that people will climbe Qianfo Mountain on each Lunar 9th, September and enjoy the Chrysanthemum standing on Chrysanthemum Appreciation Rock. 9th, September has been chosen for Qianfo Mountain Fair since Yuan Dynasty. The neighborhood of Qianfo Mountain is rich in persimmon, especially famous for Dahe persimmon. Dahe persimmon matures and comes into the market at the period of Qianfo Mountain Fair, most people buy persimmons on Qianfo Mountain Fair, so Qianfo Mountain Fair also called Persimmon Fair. On each Qianfo Mountain Fair, both sides of the mountain road line 1 kilometer with thousands fixed or mobile booths from the foot of the mountain to mountainside Xingguo Temple. They usually sell general merchandise, local products, flavor snacks, crafts, etc. Folk art groups from our province and other places show acrobatics, circus, singing and dancing on the fair. The fair always crowded with a tide of people and bustling with noise and excitement.
Jinan Folk Lantern Festival
Jinan Folk Lanterns--Jinan Baotu Spring Lantern Festival opens after each Spring Festival, and provides visitors from both home and abroad an rich, special culture feast. The lantern festival reflects the folk customs of old Jinan, which epitomize the folk activities such as bazaar of old Jinan, Lihua drum, tea art, dragon competition and folk festivals including 7th. Jul, Qiqiao festival, Zhongyuan festival, Huazhao festival, Long taitou.
Best Travel Time
Travel Baotu Spring in Spring and Daming Lake for snow-covered landscape. And the best travel time for Jinan is Autumn.
