7-Day Beijing and Harbin Winter Vacation

Tour Overview
This winter vacation package provides the perfect balance between art, history, and breathaking scenery that make you fall in love with China. Combining the must-see sights of Beijing and Harbin with the mighty Great Wall, the remarkable home of the Ming and Qing dynasties' emperors and the fantastic ice and snow world.

Day 1 Beijing (D)
Meet your guide at the Beijing Capital International Airport and then transfer to the hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure.  Hotel: Best Western Premier Hotel  (4-star)

Day 2 Beijing (B, L, D)
Morning tour of the Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Qianmen Dajie.  Enjoy Chinese Dumpling (Jiaozi) lunch and then proceed to visit  the Temple of Heaven.  This evening, your dinner will be served in a famous Beijing hot pot restaurant.

Day 3 Beijing (B, L)
Morning visit the Spirit Way and the Ding Ling Tomb. Afternoon drive to visit the Mutianyu Great Wall  .  

Day 4 Beijing (B, L)
After breakfast, have a Hutongs tour by rickshaws and then visit a local family living in a Siheyuan (Chinese quadrangles) in the Hutongs.  After lunch, pay a visit to the Summer Palace .  Beijing Roast Duck for Lunch. Optional night shows: Beijing Opera or The Legend of Kungfu.

Day 5 Beijing/Harbin (B, D)
Morning fly to Harbin. Meet your Harbin guide and then check into the hotel to have a rest. After dinner, enjoy a wonderful night at the Ice and Snow World - an interesting site that operates each night and features illuminated full size buildings made from blocks of ice. The ice carvings and ice lanterns at the Ice and Snow World are regarded as some of the world’s finest examples of ice art, with visitors able to admire some of the largest and most majestic ice sculpted masterpieces. Hotel: Gfour Holiday Hotel (3 star)

Day 6 Harbin (B, L, D)
After breakfast, visit St. Sophia Church. This church is the largest Eastern Orthodox church in the Far East. St. Sophia Church is a perfect example of Byzantine architecture. After that visit the most prosperous street in Harbin, Central Street. It is also an architecture art gallery with the buildings in much kind of the styles such as renaissance, baroque, eclectic, and modern.

Then take part in some ice activities (e.g. take the horse/dog drawn sled etc.). After lunch, drive to the Sun Island. The enormous snow sculptures at the Sun Island is the main attraction for the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in each year. Then proceed to the Siberian Tiger Park, where you will be caged in a specially protected bus to visit the tigers.

Day 7 Harbin/Departure (B, L)
Visit Heilongjiang Provincial Museum. Then continue visit to Stalin Park. The park stands as evidence of the friendship between the world’s two most powerful communist countries at that time. At the centre of Shalin Park stands the Flood Control Monument built to commemorate the tremendous feat of the Harbin people in controlling the massive flood of 1957.  After sightseeing, you are escorted to the airport for the flight to your next destination.

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Notes:

1) The hotels of this trip are just recommended, we will arrange other similar hotels in the light of actual conditions, such as personal request, occupation or rise in price and etc..

2) Please read our WINTER TRAVEL TIPS before you start your trip.