{"id":4132,"date":"2016-01-03T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2016-01-03T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T14:00:59","slug":"ice-cold-adventures-in-harbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreamaicreative.com\/archive\/ice-cold-adventures-in-harbin\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE COLD ADVENTURES IN HARBIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn December, I took a two-week trip to China. We traveled to the North Eastern region of China. In the next month or so, I’m going to be posting photos from my trip on this blog and Instagram @a<\/a>ndreamaicreative. I post here every Sunday, so you can follow my journey to China.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to be showing my photo collections in any particular order, so this se of photos are actually from the middle of the trip. We went to the frozen city of Harbin, the most north eastern\u00a0main city, close to the border of Russia. \u00a0What happens with many bordering cities is that they influence each other, as people from both sides of the border migrate and bring their culture. Harbins architecture that is influence by Russia. During the winter, it reaches to temperatures like minus 30. It was -26 degrees Celsius when we were there. It gets extremely cold at night, so if you ever go there, pack many layer; you’ll need three layers of pants, at least! I think this is the coldest I have ever felt in my life, despite living in Canada. This would be the kind of weather they get in Quebec City. The top photo is from the snow sculpture exhibition\u00a0in Taiyangdao Park.<\/p>\n

At night, the city lights up and everything is very pretty. This is Saint Sophia Cathedral. The moon happened to be visible in the clear night sky.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>This is Zhongyang Street, this is the main street for shopping. This street is closed off from cars, so you can wander the streets freely. \u00a0Here you can get many local Chinese products, as well as Russian products, such as chocolates and vodka.<\/p>\n

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\nHere is the famous “popsicle” shop. \u00a0Despite how cold it is, they serve these milky popsicles here. At first I was somewhat put off by the idea of eating a popsicle in the cold, but I was pleasantly surprised. It became one of the most enjoyable moments on the trip.<\/p>\n

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\nBeside the popsicle shop, there was a night market selling street food and dried goods. And next to that, there was an ice castle being constructed!
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\nIf you walk to the end of Zhongyang Street, you will reach the river and the Flood Control Success Memorial. The monument lights up at night and you can view the frozen river where people go ice skating. I even saw people flying drones over the river!<\/p>\n

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\nThanks for coming to visit my blog! More photos are coming next Sunday. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

#travel #tourism #China #Harbin #frozen #winter #nightscapes #icesculpture #foodie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December, I took a two-week trip to China. We traveled to the North Eastern region of China. In the next month or so, I’m going to be posting photos from my trip on this blog and Instagram @andreamaicreative. I post here every Sunday, so you can follow my journey to China. I’m not going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21],"tags":[31,45],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-travel","tag-china","tag-night-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4167,"url":"https:\/\/www.andreamaicreative.com\/archive\/buried-in-snow\/","url_meta":{"origin":4132,"position":0},"title":"BURIED IN SNOW- CHANG BAI MOUNTAIN","author":"Andrea Mai","date":"January 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Our tour took us to Chang Bai Mountain, which is along the North Eastern coastline that borders North Korea. 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