Northeast China Ice & Snow

A winter ice-and-snow travel belt made up of Harbin Ice and Snow World, Snow Town, Changbai Mountain, Jilin rime ice and Mohe's Arctic Village.

Northeast China's ice-and-snow travel is the most popular winter theme route in the country, mainly covering Heilongjiang and Jilin. Harbin has Harbin Ice and Snow World, the Sun Island Snow Sculpture Expo, Central Street and St. Sophia Cathedral; Mudanjiang has China Snow Town (Shuangfeng Forest Farm), Yabuli Ski Resort and winter fishing at Jingpo Lake; Jilin City has Rime Island, Beidahu and Songhua Lake ski resorts; Changbai Mountain has Heaven Lake, Wanda and Mojie rafting; Yanji offers Korean-ethnic cuisine and a viral post office; Mohe's Arctic Village offers extreme cold and a chance of the aurora around the winter solstice, and winter fishing at Chagan Lake is another major folk spectacle. Classic itineraries are Harbin – Snow Town – Yabuli – Changbai Mountain – Jilin (7–9 days), or Harbin – Mohe (4–5 days). High-speed trains run between Harbin and Mudanjiang, and among Changbai Mountain, Jilin and Yanji. In the extreme cold you need professional cold-weather gear, phone batteries drain quickly, and outdoors you should watch for frostbite. Northeastern food is an important part of the trip: pork in sweet-and-sour sauce (guobaorou), pig-slaughter stew, iron-pot stew, frozen pears and Modern ice cream bars are musts for visitors; trying throwing boiling water into the air to freeze it, ice activities and soaking in hot springs make a winter trip richer, and it suits southern travelers who want to feel a true northern winter.

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