Qingdao Autumn Stroll Route! Expo Garden + Taiqing Palace + Homestay Full Guide​ · Spent 2 days last week exploring Qingdao in autumn, this route fully captures the "taste of autumn"

🍂Qingdao Autumn Stroll Route! Expo Garden + Taiqing Palace + Homestay Full Guide​ · Spent 2 days last week exploring Qingdao in autumn, this route fully captures the "taste of autumn." Save this article and follow it mindlessly in mid-October, you’ll be flooded with questions on social media! 🍁​ · 🔸Day 1: Expo Garden → Taiqing Palace → Stay at Xianju Laoshan​ ▫️Morning rush to Expo Garden! Don’t just look at the chrysanthemum exhibition, the withered lotus in the aquatic botanical garden is stunning — sunlight filtering through lotus leaves onto the water, reflections like ink paintings. Wear a plain-colored dress for side profile shots, the atmosphere is instantly magical📸 Remember to bring a picnic mat and enjoy some osmanthus cake in the ginkgo forest, the wind blowing sounds like falling leaves~​ ▫️Afternoon visit to Taiqing Palace! The thousand-year-old ancient ginkgo tree is expected to turn yellow by mid-October. Standing under the tree watching leaves fall slows your breath~ You can try copying sutras (paper and pen provided for free). When tired, go to the nearby tea house to drink Laoshan green tea, paired with peanut brittle, and listen to the Taoist priest tell legends of the ancient ginkgo, super healing☕​ ▫️Evening stay at a homestay! As soon as you enter the courtyard, you’re wrapped in the sweet scent of osmanthus, and you can pick persimmons🍅! Climbing the ladder to pick a basket full of persimmons, sitting on a stone bench to eat them, crisp, sweet, and juicy! At night, enjoy a seafood hotpot at the homestay, with mountain and sea views outside the window, even the soup is finished~​ · 🔸Day 2: Make persimmon cakes at the homestay → Return trip​ In the morning, learn to make persimmon cakes with the host! Washing persimmons, peeling, hanging racks — it’s okay to be slow, the host will patiently teach you~ Watching the persimmons slowly soften, you can’t help but sneak a bite, sticky and super sweet! When leaving, they even gave me a small jar of persimmon cakes, called “autumn souvenirs”✨​ This route doesn’t rush time, only by strolling slowly can you truly understand Qingdao’s autumn~