Known as a tourist destination rich in coastal features, Qingdao, where transportation and tourism is integrated, provides a quick access to scenery to tourists who can enjoy a slow-paced way of traveling.

Laoshan Mountain in early winter is characterized by bright-colored scenery. Tourists can walk slowly along the most beautiful coastal road amid fantastic mountain and sea views. The heart healing scenery, which features lofty “celestial mountains” on one side, and fishing villages and the vast ocean on the other side, is engraved in the memory of numerous tourists.

The most beautiful coastal tourist avenue in Laoshan Mountain Scenic Spot, which stretches 13km in total, is well dotted with coffee shops, homestay hotels, peasant family restaurants and picking gardens. The 10,000-plus long footpath is surrounded by fine scenery. An increasing number of ways are available for tourists to travel to homestay hotels, communities, attractions and beaches. More than 30 well sought-after tourist attractions, 20 viewing platforms and landscape nodes and 4,000 parking spaces enable tourists to have a smooth journey in Laoshan Mountain.

The most beautiful coastal road in Qingdao, which is characterized by mountains, seas and fishing villages, three typical elements of Laoshan Mountain, welcomes a daily average of about 5,000 vehicles in peak seasons. A continuous stream of tourists help boost the development of homestay hotels, peasant family restaurants and picking gardens along the road and give an upgrade to the tea industry and the sea food industry nearby the Laoshan Mountain Scenic Spot and such rural tourist resources as existing tourist spots and fishing villages, thus providing a constant driver for cultural tourism industry and rural revitalization in Laoshan District.

(Ma Xiaoting)

The most beautiful coastal tourist avenue in Laoshan Mountain Scenic Spot.