Tour in Heilongjiang

Heilongjiang is China's northernmost province. It borders on Russia. Capital city Harbin has a 6-month long winter with lowest temperature of minus 38 degrees celcius. But wintertime is brightened by the Ice Sculpture Festival and experiences of skating and skiing. Ice Sculpture Festival lasts over 2 months from Jan. 5 to Feb. 25. Full of ice pagodas, bridges, lanterns, human figures and palaces. It brings visitors into a magical land with its twinkling lights. You can see a lot of tsarist and Japanese architecture and cobblestones left from Russian and Japanese occupation. China's biggest bird sanctuary, the 210,000-hectare Zhalong Nature Preserve is 280 km away from Harbin. Its cranes, storks, swans, geese, herons are best seen from April to September. From Heihe, a town at the Russian border, you can make a day trip to Siberia. Heilongjiang also has China's biggest oil field, the Daqing.