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Harbin Slideshow
Harbin
Travel Blogs from Harbin, China
Vers le froid du nord
... froid dans le nord, des que le soleil descend du ciel il faut mettre les pulls et meme plus. Ce n'est pas pour rien que Harbin tient la fete de la sculpture de glace. Je suis reste une nuit a Chengchun avant de reprendre le train dans un wagon bonde de ...
Wood Floors and Potty Training
... to get shots and stuff. Some of you might know my dog, Tank, whom my father in law is taking care of while we are in China. Tank has been with me longer than Jessica and Desolae. Even if you put their time together, Tank has been with me longer. Tank is ...
Semester Numero Dos
After a really long, stressful trip, we're back in Harbin, happily freezing our bums off once again. It's good to be back and we were as excited to see everyone we missed as they were to see us. Some girls fed Jarin's fish and took care of our apartment ...
May 30, Liberaces apartment
Think we found our apartment. It looks like Liberace used to live there or that maybe it was used by Osama Bin Laden as a hideout. Gold on the walls, ceilings, everywhere with a random eagle or anchor thrown in. It's a Chinese mans apartment ...
Airport Airhell
... to Harbin. I took some pictures of some crazy signs and took some cool pictures from the air of the winter wonderland. Then we got to Harbin and this German sounding French guy asked if we wanted to split a cab and we did. Then whe we got to the hotel the ...
Harbin
... approximately $100 - owch! But we had gone to Harbin to see the ice and snow - so we paid up! Dodgy underpasses - Harbin station was crazily busy and i knew the hotel was nearby the station, but didnt know exactly where. We crossed the street ...
First stop.. HAERBIN!
... inexpensive price by Singapore standards! The coffee was surprisingly good, probably because it was a famous Japanese brand UCC, and Harbin is also known for a place which is quite influenced by Westerners, thus their coffee culture is much stronger than ...
Harbin #2!
... Those being Mongolia, Russia and North Korea. It is no doubt that given the geographical size of China and relative distance to Harbin's surrounding countries that this great city has been influenced by other cultures. Local Experience Having experienced ...
Its so cold...
... into the ice wall. Whilst leaving the festival, we finally found souvenirs which weren't Russian. All the other souvenirs in Harbin were actually Russian, finding nothing even remotely Chinese. Seeing as how we went into dozens of stores, we were ...
Hard...seats?
We woke up the next day at around 4.00am, with our train set to depart at 5.30. We packed our bags and were downstairs and in a taxi by 4.30. For some reason, there are three KFCs located outside of the train station. As we arrived with an hour to go, we ...
Siberian Tiger Park!
Curt and I went to the Siberian Tiger Park. Long cab ride through traffic through town and across the river but it was a nice interesting ride. I noticed on the other side of the river they are building at least 15 huge new tall buildings simultaneously, ...
First day on the job!
So the unemployed in the US should move to China. I already have 2 jobs and more offers as well. My first job is recording voice work for the owners of a school. I have edited the papers, which was funny. It kept talking about not ...
The train to Chinglish City
... holiday (my first day off in over a month and a half) so me and my one friend decided to book a couple of tickets to Harbin on the overnight train. We had first class soft sleeper tickets and we settled in for a comfy night on our stone slabs. We arrived ...
Day two
Second day here and I already love it! The people I work with are all fantastic! The culture is so interesting and friendly, and I'm not worried about work or life in general. I think this is going to be the best experience I could ever have asked ...
Rajoja ja muodollisuuksia
Pistin nyt kartalle Haerbinin koska tiedan, etta siella ainakin kaytiin. En tieda minka kaupungin kohdalla tultiin rajan yli. Herattiin aamupaivalla kaymaan jalottelemassa jollain asemalla. Ei ollu mummoja eika kiskaa, joten taydennyksia ei saatu. ...
Walking the streets of Harbin
Walking the streets of Harbin is quite exciting. It is only about a 10 minute walk to the school from my apartment, but there are plenty of streets to be crossed. It's kind of like Bull fighting or the video game "Frogger" where the frog has to make it ...
Dao Xiong Pi! (China Pt 2)
... northern city of Harbin. A few more beers and a bottle of 60c aniseed rice wine later, we woke up in Heilongjang Province. Harbin boasts an even stronger Russian heritage than Dalian, being so close to the Russian border. It also marked a personal best ...
Weekend in Harbin
it was ~-20C, good thing we went prepared with loads of winter gear. Heating pads in the shoes def helped, and we can always thaw out with hot coffee served in ice igloos. The ice and snow sculptures are very impressive. Ice slide will be the last slide ...
Natural Blogarithm
... keep it all to itself, without a chance of sharing. Something tells me the tigers don’t wholly agree with China’s communist policy. I can only imagine what kind of spectacle would be in store for those who purchase fully grown live ...
The Deep Freeze... Spring Festival 02 - 06 Feb 11
... museum itself is actually the remaining HQ of a Japanese Army base which was established from 1937 – 1945 when Japan invaded China. What the Japanese of the time did to hundreds of thousands of Chinese was hideous. From putting them into pressure ...
From Harbin to Shanghai
... Motel 6. The carpet was clean, food was better, shower was awesome. This was definitely the break we needed from Harbin and the Sofitel. They even had a button to open the curtains. They should put a sign up about that ...
Evaluation the Breitling Navitimer Watch
Breitling had a protracted beautiful relationship with all the air industry, both uniform and private. When Breitling was first established its main business enterprise anxiety was making real counters for both methodical and industrial ...
cool trip---famous central street
2007.12.29 5:00 Part II : Walking on the Famous Centrl Street The first feeling in harbin was of couse the cold air,gander said ,imaging you walk in the -20 refrigerator,then you can accept the feeling.:) The sky is still dark when we went out,so ...
Snow and Ice
... see in China. When I was in college, I did a project for my Chinese class about the Ice Lantern Festival in Harbin, so when I finally made it to China, I just knew that I HAD to check it out! And it turned out being a birthday trip for me, so ...
Harbin Ice and Snow Festival 2010!!!
Wow Harbin Ice and Snow Festival 2010! What an incredible site! This past weekend Nana and I visited Harbin, China which is a city located in the North of China and famous for this Ice Festival. We took the train to Harbin which was ...