Qingdao with Ryan

Qingdao (3 hours south of Yantai) just happens to be where the water sports in the 2008 Olympics will be held. Ryan and I decided to take a few days and travel around the city. It's supposedly where Chinese vacation during the summer, so nice beaches. It also has a little German influence. Here's Ryan being sacrilegious in front of one of the temples...

The Buddha inside...

Ryan's favorite, the rock-on Buddha...

The 8-sided temple at the end of a long bridge/pier...

And the same temple is on the label of Qingdao beer...
Qingdao with random pagoda...

Entrance to temples...

Another temple...

It may be cold enough to snow but these guys don't care, to them it's still summer (notce the tiny bathing suits and people in the water)...

Ryan, actually in China or photo shopped in?...