Qingdao Travel Guide
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The city of Qingdao (whose most common alternative (historical) spelling is "Tsingtao"), a major seaport located on the southern side of Shandong Peninsula, lies at the junction, roughly, of the 36th parallel north and the 120th meridian east, across the Yellow Sea from South Korea. In terms of Chinese geographical and religious landmarks, Qingdao is situated at the foot of Mount Lao, the highest coastal mountain in China and one of the birthplaces of Taoism, and also the site where the famous 4th century CE Chinese Buddhist pilgrim and author of the famous Buddhistic travel diary, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Fa Xian, landed after a harrowing sea journey from Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) that lasted for months, during what must have been the typhoon season.
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"A picturesque seashore city, Qingdao will make you linger on with on thought of leaving."
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