Laoshan

On Thursday we took a 2 hour bus ride to Laoshan (a very famous mountain where the water for Laoshan Beer (a very famous beer) comes from. It was about $20 for a day pass to the mountain (which took us by surprise) which included shuttle buses between the different sites along the mountains. There was some interesting religious stuff along the way like this huge statue whose name I can't remember.



It wasn't the man made things on the mountain, however, that made us glad we spent the money to come here. It was instead the awesome views that we encountered during our expeditions into the mountain. We were hesitant to continue at one point to a cave high in the mountain because we had already been hiking a lot that week. We kept climbing past the cave until there was no path or people. We climbed some huge boulders and found an awesome view on top and looking down.



We stopped at a beach at the base of the mountains and (of course) found more herds of brides getting their pictures taken on the beach (and their dresses wet and dirty which surprised me).



So overall we were definitely happy that we decided to make the trip to the mountain and, if nothing else, breathe some clean air.