Harbin Qiqihar Wudalianchi Winter Exploration

Picked up early in the morning from your hotel in Beijing, you will be guided to board on a 7-8 hour high speed train to the city of Harbin. Arriving at Harbin West Railway Station, you are met by our English speaking tour guide in Harbib at the station exit.

Transferred to our pre-arranged hotel in Harbin. You are at your leisure to take a good rest or explore the city for the remainer of the day.

Meals: No

After breakfast, start your tour in Harbin. Your Harbin morning tour includes:

1. Snow Carving Festival in Sun Island

The Sun Island is one of northern China's most scenic spots and is famous throughout the country as a resort. However, in winter, when the whole island is covered with snow, that it is the best time to take part in the famous Snow Carving Festival here.

2. Siberian tigers in the Northeast Tiger Park

You are arranged to have a close look at the tigers on a moving bus as well as having a chance to see the tigers through a special walking corridor. It is a thrill and exciting experience to view these cute big cats.

After Chinese lunch, continue to visit Harbin and your afternoon Harbin tour includes:

1）Sophia Church

It is the largest Eastern Orthodox Church in China as well in the Far East. It has the height of 53.3 meters and has an area of 721 square meters.

2）Zhongyang Dajie ( Central Street ).

Harbin is often dubbed as the Eastern Moscow due to its Russian architecture dooted in the city. The Zhongyang Dajie is the most famous street refecting the foreign styles. It includes many European architectural styled buildings from Renaissance and the baroque to eclecticism.

After dinner, you will have your highlight activity in Harbin - enjoy the Ice and Snow World - an ice fairyland on earth. The ice carvings at the Harbin Ice and Snow World are listed as the world's greatest examples of ice art, the largest ice and snow art exhibition in the world of this kind. People can enjoy the largest and most amazing ice-sculpted masterpieces. After Ice & Snow World, you are transferred back to your hotel in Harbin.

Meals: Hotel Breakfast, Chinese lunch and dinner

After breakfast, you will be arranged to ski at Harbin Jihua Ski Resort for 2-4 hour （skiing items are to be pay on your own ).

Skiing at Jihua Ski Resort

It is a large ski resort approx. 50km to the southeast of Harbin's city center. Jiihua Ski Resort has become China and Asia's top ski resorts. The resort features 15 different ski slopes, which cover a distance of 30 km in total. It is designed to cater for beginner, medium and advanced-level skiers.

The resort has a ski school, which provides over 100 professional skimeisters. The resort area gets heavy snowfall, with about 150 days of snow every year. It can accommodate 5,000 people at the same time. All the snow activities and skiing are paid on your own. After skiing, you will be transferred back to the city of Harbin.

Meals: Hotel Breakfast and Chinese dinner

After breakfast, drive northwest for about 4 hours and get to Zhalong Nature Preserve in Qiqihar. Zhalong Nature Reserve is a a wetland reserve that encompasses the 2,100 km2 marshland, a major migratory route for birds from the Arctic migrating to South East Asia. It boasts the endangered red-crown crane. Actually the reserve has nine of the world's fifteen species of crane.

Bring your binoculars, you will stroll along the snowy lakes and explore the snowy wetland reserve and watch the reserve staffers let the red-crowned cranes flying. Stay overnight at a local hotel.

Meals: Hotel Breakfast, Chinese lunch and dinner

After breakfast, drive about 280km to reach Wudalianchi Natural Reserve. Wudalian Chi is one of the most beautiful landscapes in China, which is formed by the volcanic explosions. It is a wonderland of hardened lava, volcanic peaks, reed-lined ponds and azure lakes.

In the reserve, your will explore Black Dragon Mountain-the volcanic wonders , and head to the one of the famous mineral springs in the reserve - North Spring. After late Chinese lunch, continue to drive to Wudalianchi Town and check in your hotel.

Meals: Hotel Breakfast, Chinese lunch and dinner

Today continue to visit the Wudalianchi Natural Reserve. You will explore the Longmen Stone Village featuring a wonderful karst landscape and volcanic rocks. Afterwards, continue to visit the Lava Ice Cave.

After Chinese lunch, drive 360km back to Harbin and you are at your leisure to take a good rest or explore the city for the remainer of the day.

Meals: Hotel Breakfast, Chinese lunch and dinner

After breakfast, your are free till transferred to Harbin West Station for the 7-8 hour high speed train back to Beijing. Met and returned to your hotel in Beijing.

Meals: Hotel Breakfast, Chinese lunch and dinner

Inclusion:

1.All transfers and city transportation for your own use

2.Entrance fees and meals as mentioned

3.Private car or van with English speaking guide

4.Two sharing stay at the designated Hotels with daily breakfast

5.Beijing-Shenyang-Jilin-Harbin Highspeed train ( second class tickets)

and Harbib-Beijing overnight train ( 4-bed cabin)

6.The above private escorted tour is customizable. Exclusion:

1. Tips to your tour guide and driver

2. Skiing at Jihua Ski Resort