| Explore the Eastern Moscow ¨C Ice world Harbin |
| Tour Code |
HLJ0001 |
| Province |
Heilongjiang |
| Departure time |
2007-12-20 |
| Duration(days) |
2 |
| Price(USD) |
RMB 2780 |
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Day 1
Our local guide will pick you up at railway station
We will transport to the hotel and check in first, after a nice breakfast in an one hundred years old restaurant, We then will head to visit Snow Sculpture Festival at Sun Island on the northern side of Songhua River. The park, which is popular for sun bathers in the summer, transforms into a venue for snow sculptures in winter.
We will drive to the Siberia Tiger Park, (The park has several large caged areas where the tigers roam freely and live as they would in their natural environment, there are total over 300 free-roaming adult tigers and cubs, and other species such as lion tigers (hybrid), white tigers and black pumas), we enter these caged areas in a specially designed van with large windows to get a look at these beautiful beasts. Live pheasants are let loose (if you pay) in order show you the tigers' natural hunting skills. The park visit is not as dangerous as you may think.
After dinner, we will visit the world famous "Ice Lantern Festival," and stroll among the many intricately carved and beautifully lit sculptures, which include anything from a miniature Great Wall to motifs taken from legends, are particularly beautiful in the evening when they are illuminated by colored lights.
Drive back to the hotel to refresh yourself or arrange own night activities, drinking in ice Bar and play ice Slides are all enjoyable experience.
Day2
After a nice breakfast in the hotel, we will go to the beautiful Songhua River, to take a look of local people do winter swimming and diving
After that we will drive to the Japanese Germ Warfare Experimental Base (731 Division), The world's largest germ warfare experimental base, which was built by Japanese troops in China during World War II. The base was opened as a historical reminder of the dark history of the Japanese aggression towards the Chinese. The base itself consists of several buildings ranging from a huge incinerator, operating rooms, testing labs, and farm houses which were used to breed rodents.
Return to the city, spend the rest of day touring around the city, we will visit some of its important architectural sites, most of which are remnants from the occupation era. The very well preserved Church of Saint Sofia is built by Russian. The Orthodox church is a wonderful example of Russian Architecture. We only tour the outside of the church. The inside has been turned into some painters' market and is a big disappointment to all who visit it. You can venture into the church by yourself. Entrance fees are RMB20 per person.
Then we will walk around Zhongyang Avenue, do some souvenir shopping. Also Guogeli Dajie is your option as a shopping street, Harbin's second biggest shopping district after Zhongyang Dajie (bigger in size). The area around here is dotted with Russian buildings and HUGE shopping complexes. At night there are numerous night markets, a small scale Russian church where people dance, and a small lively "bar lake."
After that will have a dumpling dinner then transfer to the railway station.
Take a train back, trip ends. |
