Harbin, ski à Yabuli et Village des Neiges, 8 jours

Yabuli has hosted an Asian Winter Games, a National Winter Games and a Winter Universiade, and it has the vertical to justify all three: 912 metres of it, across fifty-six runs. Most operators give it half an afternoon and then write four hundred words about the trail count, which satisfies nobody. We give it a full day plus the arrival afternoon, then move on over the rime-lined road locals call the Ten-Mile Ice Gallery to Snow Town, where the snow settles on the timber roofs in the shapes that made the village famous.

Jour par jour

1. 1

   Jour 1 — Arrive Harbin

   Met at the airport and transferred into the city · Zhaolin Park and its ice lanterns if the afternoon is free.

2. 2

   Jour 2 — Old Harbin and the ice city

   Central Street and the Daoli frontages on foot · The flood memorial and the frozen river · St Sophia · Ice and Snow World from the late afternoon into the evening.

3. 3

   Jour 3 — Snow sculpture and Chinese Baroque

   Sun Island's snow sculpture expo in the morning · The Daowai Baroque blocks in the afternoon · Kit check for the ski days before dinner.

4. 4

   Jour 4 — Harbin to Yabuli

   Check out and drive roughly three hours east · The afternoon is on the snow · The resort was cut in 1974 for competition training because the altitude, the snowfall and the drop were all already here; Russian surveyors had named the place after its apple trees eighty years earlier.

5. 5

   Jour 5 — Yabuli: a full day on the mountain

   Fifty-six runs across two 5S and two 3S areas, more than ninety kilometres of piste, twenty-five lifts and a top-to-bottom drop of 912 metres — the longest single run is five kilometres. Instruction and rental arranged to the level of the group, from first-timers to people who want the certified pistes.

6. 6

   Jour 6 — Ten-Mile Ice Gallery and Snow Town

   Out over the road that runs at about 1,300 m below Heilongjiang's highest peak, where two metres of annual snowfall and the right kind of cold turn every tree along it to rime · A forest trail from the roadside reaches the top in about ninety minutes for anyone who wants to walk it · Into Snow Town — formally Shuangfeng forest farm — in the afternoon.

7. 7

   Jour 7 — Snow Town to Harbin

   The village in the morning, before the day-trippers arrive and while the light is still low on the roofs · Four and a half hours back to Harbin · Evening free.

8. 8

   Jour 8 — Depart Harbin

   Transfer for your onward flight, with the Unit 731 site museum or an hour of curling as options.

Hébergement

Nous chiffrons une gamme d'hôtels plutôt qu'une liste figée, pour que le même itinéraire se vende à plusieurs niveaux de prix.

Sur le terrain

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