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2024 Dongping Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in September)
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Dongping Lake Fantasy Tour, Encounter the Beauty of Water Charm!
🌅Dongping Lake Travel Route: You can start from Dongping Lake Wetland, admire the vast reed marshes and various water birds🦅. Then head to the Shuihu Film City to feel the ancient martial arts atmosphere. Next, go to Liugong Mountain Shuihu Village to appreciate the magnificent mountain village scenery.
💥Must-visit Items: Take a boat tour in the wetland🚢, as if you are in a painting. Take photos and check in at Shuihu Film City, wear ancient costumes, and instantly become a martial arts hero. Climb Liugong Mountain Shuihu Village and overlook the beautiful scenery of Dongping Lake.
🎟️Reservation/Ticket Guide: You can book tickets in advance on major travel platforms, with affordable prices. Some attractions may have discount policies, so remember to pay attention.
🕰️Opening Hours: Generally from 8 AM to 6 PM. It is recommended to spend a whole day.
🅿️Parking Guide: Each attraction has a dedicated parking lot with reasonable charges. Try to arrive early to find a good parking spot.
✨Personal Experience Tips: Be sure to bring a camera, the scenery here is super beautiful, and any shot is a masterpiece. Prepare comfortable shoes, as there is a lot of walking. You can rent an ancient costume in Shuihu Film City for better photos. Taste the local specialties, such as Dongping pickled fish and Dongping Lake salted duck eggs, they are super delicious!😋
Taian Niche Tourism|Amusement + Hiking + Photography, Play All Day
Taian niche tourism is at Baifo Mountain in Dongping County, with an altitude of 370.6 meters. It is the highest peak of the Ten Mile Long Mountain, featuring grotto statues, Sanjiao Temple, Baiyun Cave, Heiyun Cave, and other natural and historical cultural landscapes.
The scenery on the mountain is beautiful, and the famous 'First Buddha of the Sui Dynasty in Qilu' is located here.
Here, you can not only feel the history of a thousand years ago but also open up N kinds of lifestyles unique to young people.
📍Address: North of Jiaocun, Dongping Town, Dongping County, Taian City.
🚘Self-driving: Navigate to Baifo Mountain Parking Lot
🅿️Parking: Free
🎫Tickets: Free (entertainment items are charged separately)
🕰️Time: 09:00-17:00
🌈Recommended Activities
1️⃣1520 Heart Drift
A 1520-meter-long high-altitude glass drift, ride a rubber boat, drift all the way, laugh all the way, and experience the fun of crossing between mountains and rivers.
2️⃣Forest Park
Parent-child entertainment facilities, including trampoline park, swing park, etc.
3️⃣Mountain Cart
A sport that slides down the slope by gravity, with a slide length of 1.1 kilometers and a width of 4 meters, speeding down from the forest, very exciting, full of experience!
4️⃣Climbing Magic Carpet
Convenient for tourists to go up the mountain, take the magic carpet all the way forward, and enjoy the scenery along the way.
5️⃣Low-altitude Cableway
You can take the cableway to easily climb to the top of the mountain, with a gentle breeze, romantic and comfortable.
6️⃣Four Seasons Flower Sea
A themed flower sea created with the themes of Spring Garden, Summer Garden, Autumn Garden, and Winter Garden. There are rose and monthly garden, peony and peony garden, hundred flower garden, bamboo forest rest area, etc.
⚠️Small Tips
1. Protect cultural relics and the natural environment. Cherish our beautiful earth home.
2. Follow the instructions of the staff during amusement projects to ensure your safety.
3. It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes and clothes and bring enough drinking water.
4. It is hot in summer, so bring sunscreen products.
5. The scenic area is full of trees, beware of mosquitoes.
Dongping understands Chinese-style romance, and the night tour is super exciting!!
August, the tail end of summer
Let's seize every ray of sunshine and enjoy life
🚗 Ready to go
This stop, the Great Song Never Night City!!
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👉 At night, when the lights first come on, the Great Song Never Night City is dazzling, a thousand years in a glance. It recreates the bustling scene of Dongping Mansion as depicted by Su Shi in 'The famous city is indeed bustling, a thousand fingers tuning the sheng and reed pipes.'
👉 Encounter graceful ladies, taste a variety of delicious foods, as if you are in the bustling market of the Song Dynasty. The night is as bright as day, the prosperity is like a brocade, and it feels like a dream back to a thousand years ago...
👉 Must-see performances: horse battles, immersive performance 'Flying Over the Great Song', water screen show, etc.
👉 Special spots: glass bridge, ice and snow city, pet paradise, non-powered amusement park, etc.
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📝|Travel Guide
❶ Plan your time in advance, it is recommended to enter in the evening to enjoy the beautiful transition from day to night.
❷ Get a map after entering the park, mark the times and locations of various performances, and arrange your viewing route reasonably so as not to miss any exciting shows.
❸ Be sure to try the special foods, such as Dongping porridge, Wu Dalang pancakes, etc.
❹ Those who like taking photos can wear ancient costumes to play, experience the Great Song style immersively, and take better photos.
❺ Summer nights are stuffy and there are many mosquitoes, so remember to bring mosquito repellent if you are bringing kids.
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🏷 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎 Other Information
📍: Shandong·Dongping·Great Song Never Night City
🚗: Recommended to drive, it takes about 1.5 hours to reach the scenic spot from Jinan by car
💁♀️: The scenic spot has free admission🎫
Mount Tai Treasure Travel | Amusement + Hiking + Photography, play all day long
For an off-the-beaten-path experience in Tai'an, head to Baifo Mountain in Dongping County, with an elevation of 370.6 meters, it is the foremost of the Ten Li Long Mountain range, featuring a group of grotto sculptures, Sanjiao Temple, White Cloud Cave, Black Cloud Cave, and other natural and historical cultural landscapes.
⛰️ The scenery on the mountain is beautiful, and the famous 'First Buddha of the Sui Dynasty in Qilu' is right here.
😄 Here, you can not only experience the history of a thousand years ago but also open up N kinds of lifestyles unique to young people.
🎉 From July 12 to August 4, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, there are Baifo Starlight Markets, fluorescent night climbing, and a mountaintop hard ground bonfire concert for an immersive play experience. The circulating sightseeing car also stops on demand, and the fun activities such as rafting, magic carpets, and cableways enrich the fun during the journey, which not only includes tickets but also a night climbing fluorescent kit and the rafting experience of the day!
✅ 1520 Heart Rafting
The 1520-meter-long high-altitude glass rafting, riding a rubber boat, drifting and laughing all the way, experiencing the fun of traversing between mountains and rivers
✅ Forest Fun Park
Parent-child entertainment facilities, including a trampoline park, swing park, and more
✅ Mountain Coaster
A sport that slides down the slope by gravity, with a track that is 1.1 kilometers long and 4 meters wide, racing down from the mountain forest, very exciting and full of experience!
✅ Climbing Magic Carpet
Convenient for tourists to go up the mountain, ride the magic carpet all the way, with an unobstructed view of the scenery along the way
✅ Low-altitude Cableway
You can take the cableway to easily climb to the top of the mountain, with a gentle breeze, romantic and comfortable
✅ Four Seasons Flower Sea
Divided into Spring Garden, Summer Garden, Autumn Garden, and Winter Garden, themed flower seas are created. There are rose and Chinese rose gardens, peony and peony gardens, a hundred flowers garden, bamboo forest rest area, and so on
Taian Niche Travel | Baifo Mountain Travel Guide! So photogenic!
Taian's hidden gem! Few people, beautiful scenery! You can really spend a whole day here.
Perfect for a weekend family trip with kids 👨👩👧👧
Baifo Mountain has an altitude of 370 meters. Although the mountain is not high, it is the first of the Ten Mile Long Mountains.
⛰️ Baifo Mountain boasts a group of grotto statues, Sanjiao Temple, Baiyun Cave, Heiyun Cave, and other natural and historical cultural landscapes. The interplay of nature and history creates scenic views everywhere, and every step is poetic. Very photogenic!
🎉 From July 12 to August 4, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the Baifo Starlight Market, fluorescent night climbing, and mountaintop hard ground bonfire music festival offer an immersive travel experience with an all-access pass. The circulating sightseeing bus stops on demand, and activities like drifting, magic carpet, and cable car enrich the fun of the journey. The ticket not only includes admission but also provides a night climbing fluorescent kit and a drifting experience on the same day!
✅ Experience the collision of speed and passion with mountain carts
✅ Feel the romance and excitement with the 1520 Heartbeat Drifting
✅ Enhance parent-child bonding at the Forest Park
✅ Enjoy the scenic views along the way with the climbing magic carpet
✅ Get close to nature and enjoy the tranquility and comfort under the stars with music camping
✅ There are also projects like the Baifo Flower Sea, offering a dreamy and wonderful journey
Climbing the mountain and enjoying the scenery is so pleasant. Let's set off now‼️
Dongping | The waves travel thousands of miles carrying the Wen River, and the boats sail mightily on their westward journey
| The waves travel thousands of miles carrying the Wen River, and the boats sail mightily on their westward journey. Heading west along the grand Wen River, which flows beneath the majestic Mount Tai like a jade belt, one reaches Dongping.
📸 The Wen River, gathering the waters of the central Shandong mountains, does not flow directly into the Yellow River but accumulates here to form the vast Dongping Lake. This great lake once had its moment of glory, endowed with the legend of the eight hundred li of Liangshanbo, and it was here that the central city of Dongping Prefecture in the Lu West region was built during the Song and Yuan dynasties. The ingenuity of Daicun Dam has also earned Dongping the reputation of 'the heart of the canal'. The prosperity of the past has faded, but the scenes of fishermen singing at dusk and the roaring of Daicun Dam still make this small city in the west of Shandong worth visiting.
✨ Daicun Dam
The world heritage and national level six status have not brought too many tourists to this modest water conservancy facility, but every year during the flood season of the Wen River in midsummer, the roaring waves like a tiger's roar attract locals to come and watch.
💫 The dense locks on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal are there to overcome the elevation from Hangzhou all the way north, and the Shandong hills are precisely the high point of the canal. The river often dries up, hindering the transport of grain, and is known as the 'water ridge'. The construction of Daicun Dam in the early Ming Dynasty, planned by the elder Bai Ying of Wenshang, was to solve the water source problem of the canal in this area and also to take into account the benefits of irrigation and flood prevention. The saying 'seven parts for the emperor, three parts for the south of the river' summarizes the water-dividing benefits of Daicun Dam, and Bai Ying is revered by locals as the god of eternal relief.
💡 The Daicun Dam scenic area is not large, more like a park for viewing the scenery of the Wen River, but the dam stretching across the river makes the water surface here exceptionally wide. Standing on the observation deck with the words 'Daicun Dam's Roar', one can see the full figure of the dam and the Wen River water rolling down from it. Next to it, the Daicun Dam Museum allows visitors to learn about the past and present of Daicun Dam and appreciate the vitality of this ancient dam that has been used to this day, which is the reason for its inclusion in the world heritage list.
🚗 It is about ten kilometers from Daicun Dam to the county town, with no public transport available, so one can only take a taxi.
🌊 Dongping Lake
As the last remnant of Liangshanbo, Dongping Lake is vast, and the surrounding hills add a unique charm to the scenery. Near Dongping Lake, there are the Water Margin Film and Television City, Liugong Mountain, and other scenic areas centered on Water Margin culture, as well as the under-construction Zhou City Town, which is the site of ancient Dongping. However, compared to the picturesque northern lakes, man-made landscapes are somewhat inferior.
🗺 Lao Lake Town is the core of the Dongping Lake wetland, a small town with complete facilities and a leisurely pace. From afar, the mountains surrounding the lake on the opposite shore, the calm lake surface rippling in the wind, and the occasional sound of fishing boat engines deepen the tranquil atmosphere. Gazing from the lakeside pavilion, a small mountain reflected on the southwestern surface of the lake is the famous Liangshan, but it has been separated from the water and isolated on land through the changes of history.
🚌 Take bus number 7 from the county town to Lao Lake Town. The view of the lake under the clear sky from the bus is refreshing, even reminiscent of Erhai Lake. The town has many fish restaurants and convenient accommodations, making it a backyard for both Jining and Tai'an. The county town also has Baifo Mountain and Dongping Museum, which can be visited depending on the time available.
Spring by Dongping Lake in Shandong | Full of vitality and vigor
Spring by Dongping Lake | So beautiful, full of vitality and vigor.|||Location: Dongping Lake Scenic Area, Dongping County, Tai'an City, Shandong Province, south side of Binhu Avenue, Dongping Binhu National Wetland Park (2 kilometers west of Dasong Everbright City)
Spring by Dongping Lake, the scent of the season grows stronger. The warm spring breeze gently caresses the face, and the green willows on the lakeside sway gracefully, like emerald long hair dancing lightly. The lake water sparkles, clear and jade-like, reflecting the beautiful scenery by the lake. Spring by Dongping Lake is so beautiful, full of vitality and vigor. Whether it's walking to enjoy the lake view, sitting on the pier to feel the tranquility of the water, or watching the rhythm of the waterwheel, one can immerse themselves in nature, forgetting the hustle and bustle of the world.
It's hard not to love such a Kunlun Mountain!
🌟Highlights:
The Kunlun Mountain Range (Kunlun Mountain), also known as Kunlun Xu, China's First Sacred Mountain, Mountain of Ancestors, Kunlun Hill or Jade Mountain. It is a major mountain system in central Asia and the backbone of the mountain system in western China. The mountain range starts from the eastern part of the Pamir Plateau, crosses Xinjiang and Tibet, and extends to Qinghai, with a total length of about 2500 kilometers, an average altitude of 5500-6000 meters, a width of 130-200 kilometers, narrower in the west and wider in the east, and a total area of more than 500,000 square kilometers. Kunlun Mountain has a prominent position in the cultural history of the Chinese nation as the 'ancestor of all mountains', and the ancients called Kunlun Mountain the 'ancestor of the dragon vein' of China.
💰Average consumption:
Ticket: Normally 35 yuan per person, 25 yuan per person for retired soldiers and teachers, free for active soldiers.
📍Detailed address:
Kunlun Mountain
🚉Travel strategy:
Self-driving: Navigate to Kunlun Mountain
📝Note tips:
1: Pay attention to safety when shooting
2: Don't litter, protect nature.
3: Remember to drink plenty of water to prevent heatstroke.
I haven't got rid of Dalang Amway's sesame seed cake, and I saw a group of people carrying the box and holding the meat, and they came out vigorously. God horse situation?
The drama that originally turned out to be a recruiter began.
These courtyards have their own characteristics and are basically the same. There is a spacious main hall, and there is also a harem of watery birds and flowers in the small river. From the big family to the aristocratic mansion to the palace garden, everything is available.
That's right, it's the tomb of the king. Although "Water Margin" is a novel, there are many fictional characters in it, but the cover is indeed someone. As for where the cemetery is, it is not clear. It is said that in Liangshan, there is a saying that in other places, since this Juyi Island used to be a place where Tibetans were born, the environment is so quiet, and the burial of the King of Heaven is also said.
Located in Dongping, Shandong, Shuiyu Film and Television City is the new version of the "Water Margin" filming site. It is dominated by the Tang and Song Dynasties, with a large scale, clusters of scenes, and various imitations of the Song Dynasty architecture. It seems that I went back to the Northern Song Dynasty through time and space, and walked in the in Tokyo; various wine shop teahouses, as well as brothels and various mansions; I met Wu Dalang, and Lis outsiders.........
Dongping HouseLocated in Minamata The eastern end of the city is based on the administrative and judicial administration of the Dongping bureaucrats in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is described in the original book of The Water Margin.
[Trum Tower] is located on the east side of Shuiyu Film and Television City. It consists of a building base and a main building. The base is a square block of blue bricks with arched passages and a hanging bell in the building.
[Duanwangfu] is adjacent to Taishifu and Taifu, and the internal architecture is interconnected with Taishifu and Taiyuan. There are market, back garden, pool, bridge and rockery.
[Zi Shi Street] is located in the central axis of Shuiyu Film and Television City. It runs through the east and west. There are shops on both sides of the street. There are Wu Dalang, Zheng Tu, and Wang Po Teahouse.
[Six-gong Shanshui Dazhai] consists of 12 mountain peaks, each of which is connected into an I-shape, with a total of 6 I-shaped shapes, so it is called Liugong Mountain.
Opening hours: 08:00-17:30
Ticket price: 60 yuan
Jinan Bus Terminal Take the shuttle bus bound for Heze and Liangshan, and get off at Yinshan Station.
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