A Good Place to Take A Walk and See The Sea: Recommended in Qingdao City Park

Signal Hill Park is located in the center of Qingdao. Signal Hill is 98 meters above sea level. The three red-top mushroom buildings at the top of the mountain are particularly conspicuous. The highest one is the rotating viewing tower, where you can look down on Qingdao's “red tile green trees” and the scenery of the blue sea and the blue sky. On the bridge inside the park, a red love lock is hung on the green railing. Couples can buy a padlock to lock onto the hill as a pledge to undying love. It is said that you can get blessings with friends, lovers, or family members who walk hand in hand through Lianxinqiao. If you are single, you can use hold your left hand in your right hand too!

Lu Xun Park is a free and open beach park in Qingdao. There are large red and brown reefs just off the beach, and the scenery is very special. Walking slowly along the seaside trail, listening to the sound of the waves crashing against the wall, or walking up the pavilion at the height point of the rock overlooking the sea, it is very pleasant. Lu Xun Park is not big, but the environment is beautiful. The entrance is through a pine forest. Many pine trees have been bent by the sea breeze. The statue of Mr. Lu Xun stands tall in the bush. There is a lot of fun to be had in the park. There are often tourists taking pictures on the rocks, and children running down to the beach to pick up shells and small crabs.

Xiaoyushan Park is one of the best scenic spots in Qingdao. First, because it is in the city center, it is the closest mountain to Qingdao from the sea and its location is excellent. Second, because its only 60 meters high, it does not make you too tired while climbing. When you climb to the top of the mountain, you can see the red tiles and blue trees. "The scenery most representative of Qingdao. At the top of Xiaoyushan Mountain, there is a three-story, 18-meter high octagonal pavilion at Chaoge Pavilion covered in green glazed tiles. Take a look at the view along the spiral staircase. There is a German-style building surrounded by red and yellow walls in the green trees. In the Southeast, you can see the golden sand of the first beach connected to the blue sea. In the evening, you can see the night view of Qingdao in the mountains.

Zhongshan Park is the largest man-made park in Qingdao. The park is full of lush vegetation and a wide variety of flowers. It is a well-known flower viewing location. There is an amusement park within the park, “Happy World,” which is deeply loved by children. Entering from the main entrance of the park is the famous Cherry Flower Road. The two sides of the road are lined with 20,000 cherry blossoms imported from Japan. In the first half of every May, the branches of the pale pink single-flowered cherry blossoms and the light red double-flowered cherry blossoms are full of flowers and they compete in fragrance and beauty. In addition to the cherry blossoms, there are many other flowers such as peach blossoms, osmanthus flowers, peony, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, and tulips in Zhongshan Park. Different seasons have different flower landscapes.

The city of Qingdao was named after Xiaoqing. There is a long seawall between Xiao Qingdao and the land. The island stands on a white lighthouse built by the Germans in 1898. When night falls, the lighthouse and the island's lights reflect on the sea, like fluttering colored silk and it’s a great place to shoot night scenes. The island is covered with trees, surrounded by reefs, and sitting atop a reef. Feel the sea breeze blowing, walk into the sea with bare feet, and take a look at the tall buildings and red-topped houses surrounding Qingdao Bay, it’s just like being in the sea’s flower garden. The scenery is especially beautiful as the sun sets, and the sun plates the bay with gold.

The Qingdao World Garden is built on the hills, going along with the ups and downs of the mountains, dazzling like the ribbons of the seven fairies. There are themed pavilions, botanical pavilions, lotus pavilions, flower gardens, and gardens throughout the park. You can enjoy a wide variety of flowers throughout the year. Among them, the Lotus Pavilion is the most worthwhile one to visit. The lotus in the museum is naturally grown in the waters and includes 28 varieties like Qingling Honglian, Friendship Peony Lotus, Fujian Red Lotus and Broad-Ball White Sword Dance. In middle and late July each year, most of the varieties enter their flowering period, and the opening time can be over a month. Photography lovers should not miss it.

“The Eye of Qindao” is located on the shore of Tangdao Bay in the West Coast New District of Qingdao. Facing the Yellow Sea, it is one of the Qingdao Sea Carnival Adventure Park attractions . The Ferris wheel is 68 meters high. It rotates once every 15 minutes. There are 36 full-view invincible seascape cars. The eye of Qindao is beautifully structured. The nighttime Ferris wheel displays over 100 scenes of the dazzling light show, it’s amazing and colorful.

Tangdao Bay Binhai Park is a large-scale coastal park built around Tangdao Bay. It is divided into two areas, the North Shore and the South Bank. It has the reputation of Qingdao’s West Lake and West Garden. In the Tangdao Bay Binhai Park, there are many facilities such as the Pier Leisure and Entertainment Village, Binhai Eden Park, Binhai Leisure Square, the Public Art Park, Canal Plaza, and the Binhai Sports and Leisure Center. There are also scenic sea platform overlooking trestles, floating piers and yacht marinas. It is a good place for beachside recreation.