After
breakfast, your guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel. Firstly,
you'll visit the Sun Island Scenic Resort, which is a major venue to
hold the International Snow Sculpture
Art Expo on Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in winter. Walk into this vast pure lovely fairyland of 60,000
square meters and meet the incredible “white visual storm”. Have a close look
at the thousands of excellent large-scaled artistic snow sculptures of
landscape, cartoon, figures, buildings, etc., which will make you wow at the
outstanding talent of the craftsmen who inject life into the cold snow. With so
amazing backdrop, you just can’t help taking some great photos to record the
nice moment (You are highly advised to wear sunglasses to visit the Snow
Sculpture Art Fair since the glary from sunshine on the snow is
really intense.)
Then,
be escorted to the nearby Siberian
Tiger Park, the largest breeding center in the world for endangered
Siberian Tigers that. Over 1,300 purebred Siberian Tigers are raised there. You’ll
not only pay a safe walk to observe different kinds of tigers (Siberian Tigers,
White Tigers, White Lion, Leopard, Liger, etc.), but also take a tourist bus
with wire-mesh protection through the park to closely see the tigers and lions
and take some photos.
After dinner, you will head to the incredible gorgeous Ice and Snow World, the highlights of annual
Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. Start your freedom stroll in the
dazzling magical world of ice where to appreciate over 2,000 pieces of
sculptures of ice and snow including pagodas, towers, famous world
architectures, landscapes, and so forth dyed with romantic colorful LED lights,
which can easily make you want to stay longer in such an “Ice Wonderland in
Harbin”. Besides the sightseeing, if you would like to enjoy the festive
atmosphere to the fullest, you can choose to have fun with the world longest
sliding, or other winter activities on ice, such as ice maze, ice climbing,
skating, etc.
Note: 1) Please
wear enough layers of proper clothes and warm shoes to keep you away from the
freeze especially when you want to stay here longer to enjoy the beautiful
scenery. 2) An indoor Ice and Snow Paradise with smaller scale is built in the
scenic area of the Ice and Snow World, and tourists could also enjoy the ice
and snow there as well when the festival ends. 3)
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.