{"id":4197,"date":"2016-01-17T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2016-01-17T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T14:00:24","slug":"the-beauty-of-jinan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreamaicreative.com\/archive\/the-beauty-of-jinan\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WATERS OF JINAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOne of my favourite city stops on the tour was Jian. Jinan is known for its hot spring waters, and so even the hotels had hot spring water coming out of the faucets. We went to Daming Lake Park (as seen above), which had picturesque views. That day was hazy, and so you see it in the pictures how misty it looks in the distance. We also went to Baotu Spring. The scenery is very pretty, even in winter. What was an interesting site to see was the people collecting the spring water. It was an interesting place for people watching.<\/p>\n

Thanks for dropping by! Be sure to come back next Sunday for a new set of photos from my journey to China. You can also follow me on Instagram @andreamaicreative, were I post daily photos from the trip that aren;t on this blog!<\/p>\n

#travel #China #tourism #springwater #thermal #nature #peoplewatching
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One of my favourite city stops on the tour was Jian. Jinan is known for its hot spring waters, and so even the hotels had hot spring water coming out of the faucets. We went to Daming Lake Park (as seen above), which had picturesque views. That day was hazy, and so you see it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-travel","tag-china"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4167,"url":"https:\/\/www.andreamaicreative.com\/archive\/buried-in-snow\/","url_meta":{"origin":4197,"position":0},"title":"BURIED IN SNOW- CHANG BAI MOUNTAIN","author":"Andrea Mai","date":"January 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Our tour took us to Chang Bai Mountain, which is along the North Eastern coastline that borders North Korea. 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