Our party of four, from early January 2004 to begin planning for the Lunar New Year travel period to the three northeastern provinces, after a careful and meticulous study, discussion (we call it: to do their homework), and implemented, finally January 24 (New Year 3 ) set out.
As the "Mix" has 2 be a day early (ie: February 1st) to come back to work, and our trip is divided into two sections: the first few days to play with everyone, January 29, after breaking up in Mudanjiang, according to their own time separate arrangements for their journey.
Routing:
A group (9 days): Guangzhou - Harbin - Yabuli - Xue Xiang - Changbai Mountain - Shenyang - Guangzhou
B: (8 days): Guangzhou - Harbin - Yabuli - Xue Xiang - Jilin - Shenyang - Guangzhou
A group (9 days):
An itinerary (January 24, 2004 - 2月2日)
January 24: In the afternoon departure by train to Guangzhou East Railway Station in Harbin (places: on the train)
January 25: the train (places: on the train)
January 26: In the morning arrived in Harbin, Harbin day tour (Su: Harbin)
January 27: In the morning departure to Yabuli, skiing 2 hours after the rush Xue Xiang (places: Xuexiang)
January 28: Half Day Xuexiang morning, noon rush to Mudanjiang (places: Mudanjiang)
January 29: Mudanjiang - Dunhua, Dunhua - 2 Baihe (Su: 2)
January 30: Changbai Mountains day tour (Su: 2)
January 31: 2 Shirakawa - Yanji, Yanji - Shenyang (places: on the train)
February 1: In the morning arrived in Shenyang, Shenyang day tour (Su: Shenyang)
February 2: Morning flight back to Guangzhou
2, the main attractions (1) Harbin:
(1) Ice and Snow World: I personally believe: There is no Mudanjiang's "Snow Fort" cost-effective. If there is no chance to see the snow in Fort Mudanjiang, then, it has been because of the reputation can also be take a look. Where the ice slide is very long, some turn for the girls, that was pretty exciting (30 yuan / person, you can bargain: 100 yuan / 4), but also to play ice slides cheaper places, such as the Songhua River, Mudanjiang Snow Baonei, price 10 - 20 yuan / visits. There is no need to sit where the dogs pull plows, horse-drawn plow sitting Xue Xiang's more comfortable, but can also look at the scenery.
(2) Central Avenue: To compare the bustling, with Russia's architectural features, in winter when the roads on both sides there are many beautiful ice sculptures, very northern part of the style. Worth a visit.
(3) Flood Control Monument: A rather ambitious, take a picture to commemorate what is not bad.
(4) Stalin Park: flood control monument in the vicinity of the Songhua River.
(5) Sofia Church: Russian church architecture model, very exotic, but in the outside visitors, taking pictures you can, and do not have to enter.
(6) Zhaolin Park Ice Lantern Show (Tickets: 10 yuan / person (15:30 ago), 30 yuan / person (after 16:00), about 4:30 lighting): not recommended by 20 yuan, 5:00 Enter the park only after ornamental, or stay inside for a long time, an uninteresting, two will be frozen straight tremble. Ice works in general, carving rough, the lack of boutique, reportedly much worse than the previous.
(B) Yabuli (Admission: 10 yuan / person) skiing. For the purpose is simply to experience the feelings of people who ski to buy 140 yuan / 2 hours (group ticket 120 yuan / 2 hours) of the votes can be, and there is no need to rent snow suits, down jackets because the body has sufficient protective effect. Please do not request coaches varies among people.
(C) Xuexiang (Admission: 25 yuan / person, but still cheaper than before, Ha ha!): It should be difficult to be seen in other places so nice snow under the eaves hung with red lanterns, red door adorned with the "blessings "the word village huts, accompanied by thick, clean snow, really beautiful! Moreover, the air is very fresh, the perfect night, the Star at a glance. During the day can take a horse-drawn plow (20 yuan / person, packet round-trip) to the 81 ski resorts look at it on the road by the way enjoy the snow. Recommendation: Qi Dezao more, so you can see more without ever being trampled snow; horse to elect lean, the speed will be much faster.
(D) Mudanjiang (Admission: 15 yuan / person): The snow fort is located in Mudanjiang Mudanjiang heart an island (you can walk across the ice from the Mudanjiang), a large scale, there is snow statues, but also ice. Terms of scale and beautifully carved than the degree of Harbin Ice and Snow World is good, but inexpensive.
(E) in Changbai Mountain (Admission: 60 yuan / person, student ticket: 30 yuan / person, small Tianchi + Underground Forest: 20 yuan / person, Changbai Mountain Falls: 15 yuan / person, Tianchi: 25 yuan / person): First of all, definitely to bring a student identification card (you can borrow someone else's), buy tickets when the mountain can save 30 yuan, Hehe. Winter Xiaotianchi nothing to see, but the underground forest is also good, be regarded as a rare spectacle. As the winter snow, on the road Tianchi go bad, there must be fully prepared for, bold but cautious. Definitely have to rent the mountains before the pairs of spikes (20 yuan / right), although not cheap, but when the safety of climbing mountains is very necessary. If possible, should bring a flashlight and snow-ho up the hill. In addition, the open sky-high claims is not necessarily a guide down to ask. Tianchi lake 1 / 3 belongs to China, 2 / 3 belongs to Korea, from the frozen lake can walk to the North Korean side, Oh, let's also out of the country trips. But note: in some places there are hot springs beneath Tianchi, that some places the ice is not thick enough, can not walk on top. Therefore, to explicitly ask in advance where the hot springs, do not go to the other side. (Of course there is also a very simple way: walk along the footprints of their predecessors, can not go wrong!)
(Vi), Shenyang:
(1) National Palace Museum: This is a must to go to Shenyang, although the size and Beijing's Forbidden City is quite different, but I crossed the border before the palace to have this appearance is also pretty good, worth a visit.
(2) Zhang Shuai Fu: not bad, it is worth a go, unfortunately too many other buildings nearby. Pay special attention to enjoy the large indoor dado Brothel, that year, but imports from Europe paved tiles.
(3) Beiling Park (Admission: 10 yuan / person, cemetery: 30 yuan / person): environmental elegant, architecture is quite distinctive compared to Beijing Ming Tombs of the Mausoleum is more permissive, worth a visit.
Recommendation: Shenyang attractions are the cultural landscape, should be invited to a tour guide or to listen to guided tours along with other tour groups, so as to more in-depth understanding and the buildings on the history and legends, to swim to taste.
If 8-10 individuals, can contact the local travel agencies to organize day trips.
Shenyang, vertical and horizontal travel (local and the larger travel agencies to access): Business Contact: Wang Xu (13,504,012,040), tour guides: Zhao Wan Rong (13,614,008,366), believe this, and The Last Empress Wan Rong have the same name and the same handsome appearance of the guide's explanation makes Your Shenyang of travel, thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
3, diet:
In general, the Northeastern Chinese cuisine is a great weight, generally four individual points, three dishes is enough.
(1) Harbin:
China Macy Restaurant: Whether interior or the dishes are all the Russian flavor, is the manner of so-so. Reminder: If the waiter on the first bread, be sure to wait until the last to eat, otherwise, have not tasted the other dishes you are already full. Worth recommending are: salmon caviar, taste一级棒!
Address: 112 Central Street, Harbin, reservations, please call :0451-4675574, 4619818
(B) Xue Xiang: My personal feeling is: The present Xue Xiang could not find had been there before the "Mix" on the Internet say "Huolei Feng", and anyway I have never met. They have been commercialized, although not to the extent of cheating, but certainly not provide a free service.
Xue Xiang, we also ate a breakfast first. Eating hot noodles sitting on the kang, feeling pretty cool. The noodles do taste good host family. However, the price is not cheap: 3 yuan / bowl (noodles + 1 egg).
Poly edge of snacks: Tel :0453-7410795
(C) Mudanjiang: Wang Kee Sauce bone stew restaurant, dishes are authentic Northeast taste, cheap, really like the store's ad to say: Kings stew, really.
Address: Mudanjiang City, No. 90 East Chang An Avenue, reservations, please call :0453-6286000, 6945754
(D) 2 Shirakawa: Here, eat authentic Korean flavor. Recommendation: Dog gift shops (2 bus terminal opposite lanes). 2 Shirakawa barbecue is also quite distinctive, but the barbecue restaurant is designed to eat barbecue, and would like to try other Korean dishes, then by other shops.
(E) Yanji: Yanji level of consumption is relatively high, and even less in Guangzhou, is a local Korean band together.
Jindal Hotels: Cold Noodles :8 - 15 RMB / bowl. North Korea is said to be the local taste more authentic dishes in a restaurant are full of components. We are also the first time to eat noodles, I feel the taste in general.
Address: No. 42 Yanji Hayland Road, Tel :0433-2513634
(6) Shenyang: it is indispensable to the old side of dumplings, of course, and Li Liangui of the pie is not bad. To Sea-Tac to eat Korean food is recommended: Qing Hall. There is very authentic Korean dishes, the taste is very good. Where the dishes are full of components, and each sample has a garnish. Therefore, do not point too many dishes. Is also a four-point 3-4 dishes would be sufficient. Together with a table full of side dishes is a. We are five individuals went and spent 500 yuan, a point of 5-6 dishes, straining to eat two hours, it is not eaten by half. She felt a great pity that something so delicious, but it is unable to eat in! Qing Hall in Shenyang be expensive stores, but Korean cuisine in Guangzhou two people to eat 300 Great Yuan has not yet fed compared to where the food can be considered cheaper.
4, accommodation (1) Xuexiang: generally live in the fellow home, generally unable to bathe, on-line a lot of "Mix" are introduced. We live in Xue Xiang Hotel (where the most high-end, and New Year's price of 170 RMB / standard room), heating system can also be, equipment in general, but can be a hot shower, it is true!
(B) Mudanjiang: We are living in the vicinity of the station's "Post apartments," We advise you do not go there to live! Where accommodation is not only poor, dirty, old and broken down expensive (120 RMB / standard room)! We have always maintained, post and telecommunications system, hotels are generally located in easily accessible place, and no difference. Who knows, this hotel is simply the "Post" the desecration of the word!
(C) 2 Shirakawa: more hotels near Terminal 2. We live in the terminal next to the Fenglin Hotel. Said to be hotels, guest houses, in fact, conditions in general, shops in order to save money, reluctant to open heating, middle of the night to stop heating, and cold cruelly, but fortunately there are blanket, had been hiding in his blanket watching television (pain in the Charming , Ha ha!). But the wins within easy access (bus terminal next to), inexpensive (40 yuan / day), and an electric water heater water bath, hot water supply than the prescribed time, the hotel better.
5, transport
January 24: 6:05 p.m. at the Guangzhou East Railway Station by Train T236 (lower berth: 631, in the shop: 610, upper berth: 589) to Harbin
January 27: 7:30 am near the railway station by bus to the Long Win Bus Station Yabuli Ski Resort (40 yuan / person), after 2 hours skiing rushed Xuexiang. Chartered the way: Yabuli - Hailin 160 yuan, Hailin - Changting 110 per, Changting - Xuexiang 160 yuan (estimated to be because of the Chinese New Year but more expensive than usual).
January 28: 12:10 by shuttle bus to the forest Changting (14 yuan / person), take the shuttle bus Changting - Mudanjiang 12 yuan / person (for failing to catch the bus at 3:30 Changting to Mudanjiang, forestry bus in help car drivers to 20 months ready to find the cars Mudanjiang people go back to car, so a bit expensive, I heard that normally it should be 10 yuan / person.)
January 29: 6:20 in the West 3 Road, the passenger total station, take bus Mudanjiang - Dunhua (32 yuan / person), 12:00 Dunhua - 2 Baihe (19.5 yuan / person)
January 30: on the Changbai Mountain to be chartered, the general chartered four people together more cost-effective. Jetta: 300 yuan / day, multiplied by four-wheel drive the price will be more expensive, but it can take 4-6 people, and the car better suited to take the mountain.
Recommended: Zhang Bingbo: Jetta: 300 yuan / day, Tel :0433-5716867, 13,089,445,966, he also does a good web page, you can go up about matters related to tourism in Changbai Mountain, www.cbsly.com
Cheng Guang-Sheng: Mitsubishi four-wheel-drive, Phone: 13,844,732,728
These two are real people, worthy of trust.
January 31: 6:50 2 Shirakawa - Yanji (29.5 yuan / person), 16:59 Yanji - Shenyang (train, lower berth: 149, in the shop: 144, upper berth: 139)
February 1: 6:30 am to Shenyang
February 2: 8:45 am plane back to Guangzhou by China Southern Airlines CZ6301 (the flight stops in Wenzhou, so a longer time, until 2:10 pm to Guangzhou Baiyun airport, but a larger discount.)
6, from experience (a) to buy train tickets: Chinese, lower berth of the sleeper ticket good buy. If you can not buy a sleeper ticket is, it is better to buy into all the hard seat ticket on the bus to find drivers seat and make up sleeper ticket (fee: 5 yuan / Zhang). Because we found that if only to buy part of the sleeper ticket on the bus is difficult to make up to the sleeper berth, and the original has been bought together. In this way, everyone is difficult to care for one another. Might as well spend 5 yuan replacement ticket, we can all close by.
(B) referral fee: If people take the initiative to provide you with services, such as: In Xue Xiang's restaurant for dinner, the waiter offered to help you find the right horse-drawn plow, he was sure of agency fees charged to each other. In this way, if you want, and owners of bargaining is very difficult, because his profit margin is to minus agency fees. Therefore, whether to find restaurants, hotels, as far as possible self-discovery, it will cheaper.
Reminder: sit Harbin - Yabuli ski bus, you may encounter a call: Daegu (Tel: 13,704,880,580) of the owners, who charge placement fees to be very brutal, absolutely slaughtered your top university for Zhu Er, do not let He introduced the car.
(C) Accommodation: first to determine which live in the city in the vicinity of the road more convenient, first determine the 2-3 home, look at the room, facilities, compare conditions and prices, the bargain, and then be admitted.
(D) team-based: 4 is appropriate, two men and two women. No matter chartered, accommodation is convenient to all.
7, warm and tips (1) attire:
(1) with a hat, ear muffs, scarf: For the temperature of minus tens of degrees in the northeast, more than go to other northern cities, Vice-ear wearing is very necessary.
(2) masks: northeast winter winds, especially in the Changbai Mountain, on the wind like a knife is really the same as. May mask more comfortable to wear. Moreover, the northeast a lot of people smoking, even in a closed room, wear a mask to make non-smoking friends that feel better.
(3) Sunglasses: In the snow-capped peaks of Changbai Mountain, on a white shake everywhere, and wear sunglasses will not feel so dazzling a.
(B) Battery:
Whether the camera or cell phone batteries are consumed quickly, should be prepared to battery backup. And if possible, with outdoor mobile phone would be better.
(C) standing dry food:
Due to a tight itinerary, as early as lunch are mostly resolved in the long-distance bus, so to be standing biscuits, chocolate and other dry rations.
(D) the length in mind:
To a new city, should buy a map to understand the attractions to go to location, you can also ask local people to the attractions of the traffic, and prevent taxi drivers make exorbitant demands.
(E) speak Putonghua well:
The best team of staff who are 1-2 standard, even a little can say a northern accent Mandarin, and asked the price, when he assisted him in, I believe that one than the others knew that the old broad who can be for everyone save money, Ha ha!
Supplementary note: because some of the places a friend hospitality, transportation, and other aspects friends anaphoric, it is not clear and specific situation, please forgive me!
Postscript:
Our homework before departure, on-line access to a wealth of information, on-line a number of enthusiastic "self-tour" of the "Mix" has provided many valuable comments and suggestions on our journey will be completed successfully played a very important role in this, to them to express my sincere thanks to them.
It is also their general "self-tour" of the selfless contribution of enthusiasts prompted us to make this travel be recorded (B group on the Mudanjiang - Jilin - part of the Shenyang, etc. They have organized to share good again), want to travel the Northeast to prepare the future my friends have certainly helped!
Author: gzhejie
