Ice-and -Snow Tours

Jingpo Lake

      Heilongjiang Province, abbreviated as Hei, is located at the northernmost tip of China. This province spans an area of 460,000 square kilometers with a population about 36.89 million of different ethnic background such as Han, Manchurian, Mongolian, Hui, Korean, Oroqen, Hezhen, and others. Harbin is the capital city of the province.
　

      The beautiful mountains and rivers in Heilongjiang present magnificent northern scenery. In dense forests on the Xing’anling Mountains are forests resorts and natural hunting grounds. The province is abundant in volcanic ruins. The volcanic eruptions created Heilongjiang unique and spectacular tourist resources. Lake Wudalianchi is known as “the Museum of Volcanic Geology”. The marsh of Zhalong Nature Reserve, where red-rested cranes gather, is reputed as “the home to cranes”. Among Heilongjiang’s other tourist resources are Songhua River, Diaoshuilou Waterfalls of Jingpo Lake, and Ruins of Ancient State Bohao of the Tang dynasty. The province has long and cold winters and short summers with plenty sunshine. The frigid climate bestows Heilongjaing rich resources of ice and snow. Winters are golden seasons for ice and snow programs including skiing, winter swimming, skating, ice hockey and so on. Also the exquisite ice and snow sculptures are known as a spectacular of the North. Up to present, the Yabuli and Yuquan Mountain skiing grounds are ideal places for tourists to spend a holiday.

      With long winters, Heilongjiang Province is a major winter sports and sightseeing center in China. Ice sculptures, snow carvings and snow scenes attract large numbers of visitors to Harbin, Yabuli, Yuquan, the Jingpo Lake and Taoshan Mountain, where facilities are also available for such activities as winter swimming, ice surfing, sledging, skating and skiing.