Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival has been held annually since 1985, officially starting on January 5 and lasting for a month. As the largest and most extraordinary of its kind in the world, this grand festival is held to coincide with the Harbin World Ice and Snow Sculpture Exhibition held in Stalin Park, the Harbin Ice Sculpture Fair. Snow on Isla del Sol and the Ice Lantern Fair. held in Zhaolin Park (in downtown Harbin along the Songhua River).
During the festival, many events take place, for example, fantastic fireworks (opening night), winter swimming, ice hockey games, snow soccer games, ski races, speed skating races , ice sculpture competition, poetry jamboree, wedding ceremony and ice and snow cinematic festival. All these events have annually attracted numerous snow enthusiasts from all over the world to visit Harbin.
Today, this festival is reputed to be the world-class Disneyland of ice and snow.
Sun `s Island
Sun Island is located on the north bank of the Songhua River, opposite Stalin Park, known for its summer resort and winter events. In winter, when snow covers this beautiful island, tourists from all over the world come here to ski, build snowmen, take out horse or dog sleighs, go sledding, and participate in the Snow Sculpture Fair. ..lots of activities you can join. Landing on this island and drinking fresh air in the snow world, you will stay there to enjoy all the things you forgot when you got back to your hotel.
Ice Lantern Art Fair
Harbin is the home of the Ice Lantern Art. Started in 1963, it has been successfully held many times at Zhaolin Park in Harbin. This ice lantern art fair is now the largest and oldest of its kind, and the largest outdoor ice lantern art fair featuring classic traditional programs. It has been praised by many Chinese state leaders and has created 7 Guinness World Records in these years.
The materials for making the lanterns are ice from the Songhua River, water, and colored lights. Piling, building, placing, sculpting, spraying, watering, placing the ice according to different themes and general arrangements in the park, artists from all over the world will show a myriad of fantastic lanterns before you! Ice construction, ice sculptures, ice waterfalls, ice flower beds, ice sliding boards, ice calligraphy, ice miniature gardens, ice advertisement, ice flowers, ice mountains… form a wonderful garden here , wherever you move, what appears before your eyes is the various beautiful lanterns.
If you are lucky, you can participate in the international sculpture competition in Zhaolin Park. But in a word, visiting the Ice Lantern Fair is not to be missed on your trip to Harbin.
world of ice and snow
The World of Ice and Snow goes back to 1999 to greet the arrival of the new millennium. With varied themes each year, it has been dubbed the ice Disneyland of the world.
This year, the World of Ice and Snow is open on December 24, 2007 and will admit 50,000 visitors at the same time. For the meeting of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the theme of this time will focus on the Olympic Games. Just as its theme “Snow World, Olympic Dreams” indicates that it will tell the origin and development of the Olympic Games in the language of ice and snow, and will show its events from a different angle. The World of Ice and Snow will combine snow with tourism, entertainment and participation.
This year, the Ice and Snow World will cover an area of ​​approximately 400,000 square meters, using 120,000 and 100,000 cubic meters of ice and snow respectively. It will consist of six themed scenic areas, namely the Olympic Games Sacred Flame Area, 2009 Universiade Area, Holy Olympus Area, Recreation World Area and Fuwa Paradise Area. In the Ice and Snow World garden, you will enjoy more than 2000 panoramic points or places of interest, or you can participate in many activities, and in this fascinating world, you will share the glamor and conviviality of the Olympic Games with more people.
In addition, in the garden of the World of Ice and Snow, you will admire the most beautiful, grand and enchanting wonders of ice and snow. You can drink in ice bars, visit ice inns or hotels, play golf or football on the snowy ground, ice climb or search for treasures in the ice maze… and if you visit at night, you will see yourself a fairyland decorated with colored lights. At that time, your ice and snow dreams will come true there.
snow sculpture fair
The 20th Snow Sculpture Fair will open on December 20, 2007. It is reported that this fair will be the largest in scale and investment in history. Its theme is “French flavor is condensed in Harbin”, so you will see that the sculptures are imitations of French buildings and sculptures. Being artistic, entertaining and participatory, it will be a great parade in winter.
In addition, numerous cultural activities and sculpture competitions will take place during the fair. You can enjoy entertainment programs, Taiji performance (shadow boxing, twice a day during the fair), dragon boat race on ice, Heilongjiang Province Sculpture Contest, National Sculpture Contest, and the international sculpture competition.
Humanly, at the fair, you will get some considerate services. There is a multifunctional tourist service center and convenient and fast traffic facilities; the tourist guide service, shoe covers with sleeves and non-slip, coats with sleeves, souvenirs, guide maps, etc. are provided free of charge; and you won’t shiver from the cold if you get on the tourist carriages with fluffy cushions.