My Home Town

Our home town is a very beautiful sea city, and the people there are very warm-hearted and friendly. If you are lost in my home city, don't worry about that, many people like to help you as much as they can, sometimes they even like to bring you to the place you want to go by themselves. Yantai, a pleasant climate, is located in the eastern part of Shandong Peninsula, near Bohai and the Yellow Sea, with Japan and Korea across the sea. Since Yantai was opened to foreign trade in 1861, many businessmen from different country came here for trade, leaving groups of terraced trade & residence architecture, as well as foreign buildings such as church, consulate and post office, a different architectural style and hundreds of years of the culture as containing.

Penglai, one of the famous view spots, is also called "bitter fleabane pot", is a rock hold the sea city, since ancient times was known as the "fairyland". There is a well-known fairy tale about The Eight Immortals crossing the sea. the pictures shows the story. There is also an idiom like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each one shows his or her special prowess.

and If you are lucky, you can see mirage, a very wonderful and marvellous scenery.the first and second pictures are normal. but the third picture shows the mirage in Penglai.

If you want to know more about my home town and you also know some chinese, you can click next link
http://lvyou.baidu.com/scene/view/6e1a3e07d8d241a19b263df6
These below pictures shows how beautiful our city is, and how many and wonderful sceneries in my city.

In the summer, you can go to the sea side and swim in the sea, It's free, you can stay and swim as long as you can, enjoy the seaside sunset, bear, BBQ of diferent kinds of sea food, grilled squid and even you can sing songs with music as loudly as you can.

 If you want to go a short trip, you can ride free bicycle in a hour around the seaside, and change another in next bicycle station, of course, at first you shoule get a card with 200 yuan deposit and you contact numbers, which can return to you as you can return the bicycle . If you want to enjoy the trip by yourselves,just bring this card and ride. This is the bicycle stytle of my hometown.

 

If you are hungry, you can enjoy the The eight immortals feast in some hotel.