Tour Code: IFH-CW-17
Tour days: 7 Days
Take a ski holiday in China for thrills in a skiing wonderland! This ski holiday tour including the highlights of Beijing and Harbin ice festival, and with a small group ski adventure that takes in the best ski resorts of China.
Transfer via: plane – your arrangement
Activities for today: Airport to hotel transfer
Upon your arrival in Beijing, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure.
Transfer via: private vehicle
Activities for today: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Jingshan Park, Temple of Heaven
Today your Beijing city tour starts from a leisure walking through the largest square in the world - Tiananmen Square, and then enter the Forbidden City. It is the largest imperial palace in China for 24 emperors’ reign during the Ming and Qing dynasties with a history of around 600 years. After that, climb the nearby small Jingshan and have a full view of the Forbidden City. Lunch will be taken at a local Chinese restaurant. In the afternoon, transfer to visit the Temple of Heaven Park. It is a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design where the ancient emperors used to pray for the God’s bless of the whole nation. Free evening for your leisure exploration.
Transfer via: private vehicle
Activities for today: Ski at Badaling Ski Resort, Badaling Great Wall
Today meet the guide and drive to Badaling Ski Resort and enjoy Ski for about 4 hours (exclude renting facilities fee), you may also choose to enjoy other snow activities in the resort (activities for optional). After lunch, we will explore the Great Wall of Badaling Section. You will take a short hiking and climbing to the top of the wall and leisure walk on the wall or you may choose to take the cable car with own expense (optional cable car CNY80/pp round-way). On the way back to the city, pay a visit to the Jade Factory. Free evening for your own exploration.
Transfer via: private vehicle
Activities for today: Summer Palace, Pearl Factory, Hutongs
Today meet the guide and drive to visit the Summer Palace, and then pay a visit to the Pearl Factory. Continue to have a Hutongs tour by a 3-wheel rickshaw and then visit a local family living in a Siheyuan (Chinese quadrangles) in the Hutong. Free evening for your own exploration.
Transfer via: plane for economy class –our arrangement
Activities for today: Airport transfer, St. Sophia Church, Central Street
Morning transfer to the airport for the flight to Harbin. Upon arrival, you will be picked up to your hotel. Afternoon pay a visit to the largest Eastern Orthodox Church in the Far East- St. Sophia Church. It is the perfect example of Byzantine architecture. Later, enjoy a free walk on the Central Street.
Transfer via: private vehicle
Activities for today: Stalin Park, Winter Swimming Performance, Snow Sculptures Art Expo, Siberian Tiger Park, Harbin Ice and Snow World
Morning guide tour to visit the Stalin Park. The park stands as evidence of the friendship between the world’s two most powerful communist countries at that time. At the center of Stalin Park stands the Flood Control Monument built to commemorate the tremendous feat of the Harbin people in controlling the massive flood of 1957. You will watch winter swimming performance on Songhua River. And you may choose to do some ice activities with own expense, such as ice sliding, dog sledding, snow tubing, ice biking etc. Then move to visit the international snow sculpture art expo on Sun Island. In the afternoon, proceed to visit the Siberian Tiger Park, where you will be caged in a specially protected bus to visit the tigers. Late afternoon, enjoy a wonderful night at the Ice and Snow World - an interesting site that operates each night and features illuminated full size buildings made from blocks of ice. The ice carvings and ice lanterns at the Ice and Snow World are regarded as some of the world’s finest examples of ice art, with visitors able to admire some of the largest and most majestic ice sculpted masterpieces.
Transfer via: plane – your arrangement
Activities for today: Airport transfer
Free at leisure until you meet the guide and transfer to the airport for the flight to your next destination.