Qingdao, China

Qingdao Ensconced on the southern tip of the Shandong peninsula along the Yellow Sea, this city of almost seven million towers as the largest trading port in northern China. Yet, despite such an urban bulk it behaves in the confident manner of a tourist resort. Its rare mesh of mountains and sea combine with a fairytale beachfront setting of Bavarian architecture to conjure strange expectations of finding women dressed in bikinis and men in lederhosen while snacking on hot apple strudel with chopsticks. Regardless of how impossibly odd it sounds and seems, the bottom-line is that it cohesively works. Qingdao now averages more than 15 million tourists a year. ...Qingdao Overview

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