Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang Provence in Northern China. Popularly called The Ice City. And here, presenting to you pictures of my visit to the city.

The city has the most bitterly cold winters among major Chinese cities having daytime temperature at an average of -15 degress and night time temperature as low as -30 degrees!

In winter, daytime in Harbin is about 8 hours, from 7am to 3-4pm. Then it gets dark. The streets of the city is decorated with many beautiful carvings made on Ice.

Night time pictures.

Ice and Snow World.
An Amusement Park with many Ice Castles.
Gate Fee approx 18k.

Frozen Lake Amusement Park.
Free entry into the park but you pay for entertainment.

The 3rd and 4th pictures are pictures of the (SongJiang) lake. It freezes complete during the winter and it is converted temporarily to an amusement park.

Dressing and Food.
Wear as much as clothes as possible, also warm hat, scarf, thick gloves, socks, shoes.

For me, I wore 2 pairs of woolen socks, 3 pants, four tops(inner long-sleeve tuttle neck vest, 2 sweaters and a down coat).

For your shoes, it should be skidproof because in Harbin there is much ice on the road.
Then put a warming pad on in your socks.

I still felt cold anyway. My fingers were red and sore. Harbin is cold

Random Pictures.
Pic 1: Harbin Beer carved on Ice.

People of Harbin are nice and warm.
There were many tourists too.

Nice

#Sth interesting about Harbin☃

There is a very special phenomenon---in winter, people don't need a refrigerator to store their goods. Instead, they put everything outdoors--as a natural refrigerator.

Also if you walk on the street in winter night of Harbin, you will see frozen popsicles, ice cream, persimmons and all kinds of food sold there and they taste really nice!

Interesting

Really nice exposé

O boy! So Moscow and Arctic get cousin in China. Spices, pots and hard drinks especially spirits would know no gender here be that o. Heard most chinco women start nine months projects during this time . Nice thread, flyca.

That's my person! I've never been to Harbin. Having transversed the length and breadth of this large country, Harbin is one of the frontiers I'm yet to visit. Would have loved to visit this winter but wifey thought the weather would be too extreme for our daughter. I'm longing for the breathtaking experience of Harbin!

Small Nigeria harmattan cold dey do me like say I go die, if I should come there I'll definitely die, or develop hypoxia

So this is how you forgot to invite me ba?i feel attacked

Nice thread.

But it's colder in Russia and parts of Canada

Beautiful place but why are you lonely in these pics?

chukxie:
That's my person! I've never been to Harbin. Having transversed the length and breadth of this large country, Harbin is one of the frontiers I'm yet to visit. Would have loved to visit this winter but wifey thought the weather would be too extreme for our daughter. I'm longing for the breathtaking experience of Harbin!

Happy new year Mr Chukxie.

jesmond3945:
Beautiful place but why are you lonely in these pics?

Bros, how many people do you want me to be with? If I post certain pics now, people like you will still scream ”showoff”, “intimidation”, nyenyenye.
Now take a careful look at the pictures attached.
And bounce off!

Beautiful

Watched a documentary on this city 3 days ago.
So beautiful.
These people make cool cash every year thanks to ice.
U see, we can harness anything around us for our own pleasure and benefits if we think deep. Hmm.

Justwise( at least I knew he is a moderator), please can you help here?

ferhyntorlah:


Happy new year Mr Chukxie.

Happy new year, boss! How's everything going?

sassysure:
Watched a documentary on this city 3 days ago.
So beautiful.
These people make cool cash every year thanks to ice.
U see, we can harness anything around us for our own pleasure and benefits if we think deep. Hmm.

Justwise( at least I knew he is a moderator), please can you help here?

Thanks jare, this is what baffles me most about such events. What is ice? Water! Just water! And they are cashing out on it big time. Imagine making 18k from 300,000 visitors, Jeeez!

Also, do you know that in summer, early enough, they make casts of these castles, pass neon decorative lights through the casts and wait for summer cold, so that snow will fall and form shapes! Diligence makes for progress.

My people my people.
Chukxie / Aminho - I sight you both

flyca:

Thanks jare, this is what baffles me most about such events. What is ice? Water! Just water! And they are cashing out on it big time. Imagine making 18k from 300,000 visitors, Jeeez!

Also, do you know that in summer, early enough, they make casts of these castles, pass neon decorative lights through the casts and wait for summer cold, so that snow will fall and form shapes! Diligence makes for progress.

My people my people.
Chukxie / Aminho - I sight you both

U don't have to say it breath taking.
I watched the documentary. U need to see different things they make with ice. And when the sun shines, they will melt away

That what u get around people with above average IQ

I'm wowed!

I wish to explore new horizons soon

See cold

Africa my Africa God loves us, see people living inside ice

peacengine:
Africa my Africa God loves us, see people living inside ice

Are you saying that God does not like them?

Lemme flip that sentence for you:
Harbin my Harbin, God loves us, see people living inside Sun.

Does it make sense?

flyca:

Are you saying that God does not like them?

Lemme flip that sentence for you:
Harbin my Harbin, God loves us, see people living inside Sun.

Does it make sense?

Your reply made me laugh out loud like I were on some kind of cheap hallucinogen

chukxie:


Happy new year, boss! How's everything going?

Great at my end.
Happy Chinese new year in advance.
Please what's the Chinese new year for 2019? I mean year of the ....? Horse, panda, whale, dragon?

ferhyntorlah:


Great at my end.
Happy Chinese new year in advance.
Please what's the Chinese new year for 2019? I mean year of the ....? Horse, panda, whale, dragon?

Year of the Pig.
I hear it won't be a particularly good year for doing business, but if one's lucky one can make it big.