Harbin - Ice City In Northern China

In the Heilongjiang Province of northeastern China, the capital city Harbin comes alive in winter especially with the opening of Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival (usually starts on Jan 5th and lasts for around one month). The city turns into a huge theme park - everything is made of snow. Blocks of ice are carved into gorgeous buildings and sculptures of various shapes and sizes lining on the banks of frozen Songhua River. How fantastic to be here with the children! Go for hitting the slope in nearby Yabuli Ski Resort - the largest and best of its kind in China with approximately 150 days good for skiing, and those fabulous winter activities everywhere, like dog sledding, snowmobile driving...

When touring Harbin in winter, make sure that casually wander down Zhongyang Pedestrian Street housing a large number of European-style structures, have a cup of hot coffee in a Russian cafe, tour du lịch quế lâm watching locals flying kites, skating, kynghidongduong.vn having horse rides etc. , and have a visit to Siberian Tiger Park and St. Sophia Church.


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The 30th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival 2014 is Coming...

It will be the 30th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival on the first month of 2014. Famed as one of the world's largest and finest ice and snow festivals, in the company of the Japan Sapporo Snow Festival, Norway's Ski Festival, and Canada's Quebec Winter City Carnival, it always generates enormous expectations of fascination for both children and adults!

Arctic-like climate, freezing temperatures, a lack of sunlight and about 190 days of ice period will be paying the way for another awesome winter festival in Harbin 2014. Although the festival will officially start on January 5th, ice sculptures and lanterns exhibitions and ice-related activities including ice sculpture competition, winter swimming competition, skiing, sledding, ice hockey games, and much more will be ready from late December 2013.

Enjoy the festival in Harbin, its Sun Island Scenic Area and Zhaolin Park. You'll see icy versions of towers, castles, skyscrapers, mazes, cartoon figures, dragons, sea monsters, etc. And when the night falls, the sculptures are lit up by multi-colored lasers and lanterns. In these wintery theme parks, ice lanterns resplendent with light, music and actions are thought to be the most beautiful ones.







Those in search of winter holidays over Christmas and the New Year make sure not to overlook China. Given its vast size, China meet the needs of most wintertime travelers, whether you are eager to embrace the fun of ice and snow, or thinking of whisking the whole family off to the beaches touched by warm sunlight. Exploring China in winter is sheer joy, with less crowds and cheap cost![ (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push();]