Harbin Ice Festival

[Luffy Lu]

The annual Harbin Ice Festival opens on 5th, January with the opening ceremony holding on 4th, January. It’s a grand festival of Harbin and one of the four famous ice festivals around the world.

With an average temperature around -15℃ in winter, people in Harbin learned

to find their pleasure with the snow and ice created by the unique climate. Since the opening day, the Harbin Ice Festival will continue till the ice begins to melt under the sunshine.

Harbin Ice Festival is a great opportunity for those ice sculpture artists to show their amazing talents. During the Harbin Ice Festival, numbers of ice sculpture artists gather here and like the ice magicians make their imagination and brilliance into fantastic ice sculptures. In the day, you can see the ice magicians take the ice away and create their works. In the night, hundreds of thousands of tourists crowd here and enjoy the splendid lights give off from the ice sculptures.

If the Harbin Ice Festival stirs your heart, now you can prepare for the coming 2014 Harbin Ice Festival.

Travel tips:

Take your down jacket, cotton shoes, scarf and gloves. Those in the scenic area are more expensive.

You can take a walk in the Central Street or pay a visit to Hagia Sophia. When about 3 pm, you can enter the Ice World with prepared food.