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Zhongyang
Street (中央大街)
Literally meaning "central avenue". This cobblestone
lined street is a pedestrian only street that could serve
as a perfect remnant of the bustling international business
activities at the turn of the 20th century. The 1.4-km
long street is a veritable museum of European architectural
styles, including Baroque and Byzantine facades, Jewish
architectural wonders, little Russian bakeries, French
fashion houses, American snack food outlets, and Japanese
restaurants. It runs from Jingwei Jie to Stalin Park at
the river. In winter, one can walk out onto the ice or
take a dog sledge or horse sledge ride.
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Yabuli Skiing Center
Located in Shangzhi City in the east of Heilongjiang Province,
193 kilometers away from Harbin and 120 kilometers away
from Mudanjiang City. The highest peak of the Yabuli Skiing
Center is 1374.8 meters above sea level. The lowest temperature
is 44 degrees below zero. The average temperature is 10
degrees below zero. The snow period lasts for 170 days
in a year. The time for skiing is nearly 150 days.
The whole skiing center is surrounded by mountains. The
dense forest is covered with deep snow. The scenery is
very spectacular. The Third Wokui, the highest peak of
Mountain Wokui, has been developed into a large-scale
tourist skiing ground. The Large Wokui and the Second
Wokui have ever been used as the racing course in the
3rd Asian Winter Games. It's the training base for national
skiers. It's well served with skiing. There are 11 primary,
intermediate and advanced skiing courses. The high-mountain
skiing course here is the longest in Asia. In the skiing
ground, there are a five-kilometer-long circular cross
- country skiing course and special courses for snow sledge
and snow motorcycle. There are three double-seat cableways
of levitation type, two pulling cableways and one carrying
cableway. Skier can take the cableway at any place. They
can ski in all the skiing courses of the skiing ground
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Sun Island (太阳岛)
Park located on the banks of the Songhua River and can
be reached by ferry boat (5 rmb). Pleasant to stroll during
the warmer months and on the weekends newly married couples
can be seen taking pictures. In the winter it becomes
part of the ice city festivities.
Gondola ride over Songhua River, access point is the Sun
Island Park. A nice way to work your way back from Sun
Island in a gondola car that takes you over the banks
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Dragon TV Tower (龙塔)
The Long Ta Tower, Heilongjiang Broadcast and TV Tower,
336 meters high, ranks as the 22nd highest in the world
and the seventh highest in Asia. It is a comprehensive
multifunctional tower that integrates transmission of
broadcast and TV, tourism, sightseeing, food and beverage
service, advertisement propagation, environmental and
meteorological monitoring, microwave telecommunication
and wireless communication together. The total building
area of the Dragon Tower is 16,600 square meters.The tower
appears to be a parabola. The tower halls are located
from 181m to 206m, consisting of a flying saucer in the
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Siberian
Tiger Preserve (老虎公园)
A short distance from town, this expansive zoo allows
visitors to take a guided tour of many large open pens,
each housing small groups of tigers. For those with the
stomach for it, visitors may purchase live animals and
raw meat to be fed to the tigers while the visitors watch.
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Zhaolin
Park
Youyi Lu and Shangzhi Jie. During the winter this park houses
ice sculptures for the festivals, but during the off season,
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Sophia Cathedral, located in Daoli District on the
corner of Zhaolin Street and Toulong Street. One of the few
still standing Orthodox churches in the city. It is now converted
into a Harbin Museum of Architecture. Inside there are exhibitions
of many photographs from old times. Definitely worth going into.
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731 Museum A grim reminder of what happened during
the Japanese occupation to over 2,000 prisoners of war. The
museum, located out in the suburbs, tells the story of these
individuals through images and displays, not heavy handed propaganda
like at some museums. This museum is very well documented and
for those with an interest in human atrocities. |
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