Yantai
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By plane
International flights to Seoul, Osaka and Hong Kong are available. Domestic flights connect Yantai with more than 20 major cities in China, such as Beijing (daily, 1 hour), Harbin (daily, 2 hours), Jinan, (daily, 35 minutes), Shenyang, (daily, 2 hours), Ningbo (daily, 1.5 Hours), Dalian (daily, 45 minutes) Chengdu (4 hours), Guangzhou (3 hours), Kunming (4 hours), Shanghai (daily, 1.5 hours), Shenzhen (3 hours), Wuhan (daily, 2 hours) and Xi'an (2 hours). The airport is 15 kilometres south of the city. An airport shuttle bus (RMB10) is available at No.6, Dahaiyang Lu. A taxi ride to Laishan or downtown can cost you about RMB40.
By train
Yantai is easily accessible from Jinan and Qingdao with frequent trains daily. But rail transport may be inconvenient if you travel long-distance, as there are no direct or fast trains. Sometimes you need to transit at Jinan.
By Bike
The Yantai-Weifang (272 kilometres), Yantai-Qingdao (276 kilometres) and Yantai-Weihai (86 kilometres) high quality superhighways have been put into service. Minibuses run between Yantai and nearby cities, such as Qingdao (3.5 hours) and Weihai (1.5 hours). The long distance bus station is southwest of the railway station on Qingnian Lu.
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Nanshan Park
Nanshan Park is located in the mountains of Nanshan scenic area with its highest altitude of 681 meters, and it is on the opposite of main urban area in Chongqing City and the Yangtze River. The park is a comprehensive park featuring forests and flowers. There are the relics in the park which is regarded as the remains of legendary water-control by Da Yu. Besides, temples, iron masts, Wenfeng Tower built since the Tang Dynasty and a large number of official residences and villas built during the War of Resistance against Japan in the park are of high historic and cultural value.
Yantai Museum
The one sight you shouldn't miss is the Yantai Museum on Nan Dajie, housed in the largest and most beautiful of the city's old guild halls, set up for the use of merchants and shipowners. The entrance hall is startling, decorated with an ensemble of more than a hundred stone and wood carvings. The beams are in the shape of a woman lying on her side nursing a baby, and beneath the eaves are Arab figures playing musical instruments. Other panels to the north show scenes from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the story of the Eight Immortals who Crossed the Sea, and the story of the second-century General Su Wu, condemned to look after sheep for nineteen years as a punishment for refusing to go over to the Huns.
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