Harbin Ice and Wholesale

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Here, 900km to Dalian, it landed in the last major city in northern China! Harbin (哈尔滨) is a city of nearly 5 million people in the far north of Manchuria. It is also called the "city of ice", because it is very cold for very long! The reason we came .

What a welcome ... ... good one starts?

After a stroll in downtown, a shopping street that looks like St Catherine ( "the" shopping street in Bordeaux), it soon became a Russian restaurant around super cool. We did not really find specialties, it looks a bit like the French comic besides Lawrence and I just jumped on but FAST fries.

It is then left to join the edges of the frozen river course. To cross it and reach the island where you can find ice sculptures, he must either take a carriage or some sort of cable. It feels a little catch-all that fool, but Heng arrived to negotiate the talent round-trip coach for 8? for us all!

We climb, we ride, the guy stops the carriage in the middle of the River. After OUGHT peed on it, it asks us to pay to continue! If it's not abuse it! Well finally, without pay, they come across, but ever. The Chinese of Harbin are really scammers (well ok, it's true, it is rather a general trend with inflation)! Once on the island, we still pay to go see the sculptures.

Armed with my whip, I found my instincts beloved ... "Take that filthy beast! After you pass the barbeuk!"

Paradoxically, it is not cold (and certainly not the eyes) ...

Not bad animation here: a juggler in the flames, girls who skate (wow, how they are not to be cold?), Dancers ... But hard to keep watching the show without moving, it freezes quickly ... We decided to leave and there on the road, you see toilets. And there ... c'est le pied! There are 2 radiators inside, once seen, once monopolized! It will remain here for quite some time to warm up ... after, members warm, you feel the wings, see for yourself ... (olha, such a shame to write such things)

In one, I balance a sun on the other, I swing my APN ... (be as fool me and you will understand)

There are really many ice sculptures, small play of light on it ... But the cold freezes us again and we decided to go into a kind of small snack bar at two francs six sous. Here, prices are quite exorbitant, helping to 3? hot chocolate or coffee (super expensive for China!). Is ordered and you end up with an ersatz coffee ... basically they have heat water, they threw 2 grains of soluble coffee (I mean it when I say "2 grains), similar to chocolate, 2 chocolate chip soluble in water (without milk ) ... Brief ... unpalatable widgets. Me and Lawrence refuses to drink it, Heng and his girlfriend eaten, but ... despite an attempt to end the complaint, Heng abdicate from the hostess and perform the sum What my dear Heng defeat ...

After visiting the island over, we decided to go to the main attraction of Harbin in the season, the "?????" (the sight of the icy snow? a trick of style). There is quite impressive, there are buildings full of ice.

The Arc de Triomphe version pistachio ...

Big Ben ... version phallic and bigger!

There is also a bar, which I had heard before going to Harbin. An ice bar! Sponsored by Dynasty (it's a brand of Chinese wine, and for info, the other is Greatwall, they make wine in 1? But 100?). The interior is nice, there remain some time, long enough for me to do a good spasmique linked to cold

! We drank wine, but he had to hurry with the cold he began to crystallize very quickly ...

"A frozen-siouplé wine!"

Then Heng wanted to make her interested, he made a tour of camel and then he ate a bunch of frozen cherries, it took them to several people to remove him from the mouth!

Hey, I feel that it was a good time to Heng!

We spent some time in that corner there. The problem is that with the temperature (of around -30 degrees), and without proper protection, hard drive to hold. At a point where we could do more, we took a taxi (ahhhh, how fortunate to find warmth), and we visited a Korean restaurant type. Super good and was hallucinating on the price at the end! Under 10? 4, then we took a lot of stuff, and even beer (note that just Harbin!).

Returning to the hotel ... He was already very late ... but we went for a massage of 90 minutes. Hmmm ... it's the holidays we refuse nothing!

Aside aside: Dalian, DaBest ... ??,??? !
Surprisingly for us poor foreigners. According to 2 studies, Dalian is a great city to live! An initial study said that Dalian is the most livable city in China, a second study, Dalian 3rd (behind Beijing and Shanghai), always extremely well placed. I have no link to the first study, I wish that a friend (thank you for the info Eric), but for the second study, here: it's here! And I talked to send you a postcard of the Apocalypse ...