5 Days Harbin Winter Tour with Yabuli Ski Resort

Full Itinerary Day by day

Day 1 Harbin Arrival

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Welcome to Harbin, the Capital of Heilongjiang Province, which is well known as the "Ice City" in China. Your local guide will meet you at the airport. Then you will be escorted to your hotel in a private vehicle. The rest of today is yours to explore the city on your own.

Arrival Ideas: At present, Harbin has flights with some international cities and domestic cities like Beijing (2 hours), Shanghai (about 3 hours & 10 minutes), Xian (3 hours), Guangzhou (about 4 hours & 15 minutes), Chengdu (3.5 hours), Hangzhou (about 3 hours), etc. Also, Harbin has some daily high speed trains from Beijing (about 7-8.5 hours), etc.

Day 2 Harbin to Yabuli Ski Resort (B)

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In the morning, you will move on to Yabuli Ski Resort, which is the largest and best ski resort in China. It is located 200 kilometers east of Harbin city and would need about 3 hours’ driving of 240km long distance from Harbin downtown area.

Upon your arrival, you will be escorted to your hotel in Yabuli. And in the afternoon, start enjoying your skiing tours for about 2 or 3 hours in Yabuli Resort. Forget your age or level of skiing, and the world advanced ski resort would provide the best highlighting moment for you. Put on the cool clothing and ski on the pure white snow-capped mountain with your favorite speed, with the charming view of shimmering winter snow, warm sunshine and azure sky being the best background. Just put yourself into the snowy wonderland to ignite your winter holiday, laugh out loud, and play it to the most!

After the fun time, be escorted back to your hotel. Have a good sleep!

(Note: 1). Yabuli Ski Resort provides professional skiing equipment of different sizes and types, so you could rent with the reasonable prices to start your wonderful tour if you do not bring yours. 2). If you want to spend longer time skiing beyond the 3 hours, you could give the extra payment to enjoy it to the most.)

Day 3 Yabuli & Back to Harbin (B)

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Enjoy your breakfast in this morning. Today is your own to explore other interesting activities in Yabuli Ski Resort. You could continue spending more time hurtling in the wide skiing site, and if you want to have some new and fresh tries, there are horse sledges, snow tubing, snowmobiling, etc. for your wide choices.

Horse Sledge: sitting on the sledge pulled by the horse on the snowfield, you could appreciate the amazing sightseeing of the vast snow world, snow covered pine trees in the forest, and lost in this fairyland with ease and leisure.

Snow Tubing: sit on the tube facing the bright sky and slide along the professional and safe snow trail. Since there is nothing controlling and speed and direction of the tube, you could feel the excitement and thrilling of sliding from the peak to the lower location freely and highly.

Snowmobiling: The cool motorcycles are well equipped with the wheels like tracks of a tank and are easy to be handled and of course safe. Ride one to tour in the beautiful snowfield and drive all the stress far away.

In the afternoon, we will be escorted back to Harbin City, which would need about 3 hours. Have a sweet night in your hotel.

(Note: all entertainment activities like skiing, horse sledge, snow tubing, snowmobiling, and so forth need extra but reasonable payment.)

Day 4 Harbin (B, L)

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Good morning! Today's tour begins to explore the essences in the city area of Harbin. You will first visit the Sun Island Scenic Resort, which is a world famous summer resort and also a major venue of Ice and Snow Festival located north Harbin right by the Songhua River. As a series of Russian-styled buildings, vigorous little animals and beautiful surrounding lakes are well decorated in this place, you could get really relaxed and seem to stay in an exotic land. When winter comes, this snow-covered resort is a key site to hold the annual Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Exposition in China and is also one of the best places to appreciate the outstanding snow sculptures of diverse shapes and types with colorful brilliance under the sunshine, including animals, figures, cartoon characters, buildings, and so on. Take your time to admire the unbelievable skill of human being changing the soft snow into those great artistic works.

Then, visit the nearby Siberian Tiger Park, the largest breeding center in the world for Siberian Tigers. You can take a bus with wire-mesh protection through the park to closely see the Siberian Tigers, White Tigers, tigers, lions, leopards, and other rare beasts of prey. Of course, it’s highly recommended to record the cool moments but remember to stay away the protection within the bus.

After dinner, you will get to the amazing Ice and Snow World, the highlights of Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. Apart from appreciating the magical and extraordinary ice lanterns and sculptures of world classes with colorful lights at night to get immersed into the gorgeous shining world, you could have an unforgettable time joining the joyous shows and performances by the dressed up actors and actresses, and also enjoy your time with your people with the various kinds of ice and snow activities like curling, ice biking, ice sliding, etc.

After the happy hours, the local guide and driver will escort you back to your hotel. Have a nice sleep!

Note: 1) The open time of Ice and Snow Festival is not fixed, but it is usually open in the late December, and lasts to the early March. The Ice and Snow World is only open during the festival. 2) There may be long queues in front of some hot activity items in the Ice and Snow World during traditional Chinese Lunar New Year and weekends, and you could visit there during other dates to avoid crowds. 3) An indoor Ice and Snow Paradise (only open in the daytime) with smaller scale is built in the scenic area of the Ice and Snow World, and tourists can enjoy the wonderful snow and ice architecture, lanterns and sculptures in Spring, Summer and Autumn days.

Day 5 Harbin Departure (B, L)

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After breakfast, you will have a city tour in Harbin. You will firstly visit Sophia Square to admire the holy appearance of the St. Sophia Cathedral, which is a typical Byzantine architecture and was once the largest Orthodox Church in the Far East. At present it is used as an arts gallery. After the church, you will then visit the Zhongyang Pedestrian Street, which is over 120 years old and also now the longest pedestrian street in the whole Asia with a total length of 1450 meters. Taking a leisure stroll along the ancient and exotic street, you could enjoy your relaxing time to appreciate the various European styled buildings and taste some delicious snacks as locals. Then, you will visit the nearby Harbin Flood Control Memorial Tower that is a featured striking tower of Russian style and built up to 22.5 meters. Watch the vivid carvings of the flood controlling scene of that year in the body of the tower to know more about the brave and clever Harbin people.

Next, you will have a new experience to the Jiuzhan Park to watch some interesting activities on ice, such as going winter swimming in the so cold water under the frozen water surface, doing winter fishing through a hole dug on the iced Songhua River, etc.

After the tour, your local guide will take you to the airport or train station for your flight or train to the next destination according to your schedule. Tour Ends.

The quotation for this trip is from Request Per Person

1. This price is for one person, based on a group of 2 adults sharing one standard double-bed room in 4-star hotel and traveling with our private tour in low seasons.
2. This price is subject to change according your traveling season, group size, hotel class, change of activities in your itinerary and possible fluctuation of currency exchange rate. If you want a lower price, you can get more people to join you, or use economy class hotels.
3. This price is only valid to March 31, 2020.
4. Reference exchange rate of USD 1= RMB 6.7. The final quote is based on current exchange rate. It may change according to the currency fluctuation, while the RMB quotation will be remained the same.

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