Taking the night train to Harbin - I have to climb to the top to sleep
Taking the bus to see ice and snow - the bus will ends around 8:30pm! so early 在严寒中做公交车去看冰灯
the new bus station
if there is a fire, there won't have any water coming out from that pipe - everything is in deep freeze
even like -20F, they still stand out side selling stuff 真佩服他们抗冻
Stalin Street next to the Song Huan River
松花江大桥 the fozen Song Hua River
马拉爬犁
车也在江面上跑 It's so cold that cars drive on the frozen river
COLD! Stalin Park
the big ice slide slope
防洪纪念塔
It was REALLY cold!
even it's cold, there are plenty people outside
冰灯-兆麟公园
shouldn't she wear more?
This the first slide I saw, so I just sad on it and got my jeans really dirty - you are supposed to sit on a tire to slide down
something Russian
now it's even colder because the sun has gone
my favorite slide, ever! so exciting
you sit on a bit tire and then just run down backwards
my butt is all wet and cold from the slide, so bake it on the heater inside a hot drink shop
actually it's pretty painful now - due to the cold
competition works
Chinese team
Russian team
Danish team
American team
Japnese team
Thai team
Japanese team
back to that slide! I can't remmeber how many time I went down this path in the freezing cold
who wants this job? just standing there in the -22F temperature? he is not really doing anything
me
venders sell frozen buns in the cold 卖冻枣馒头
those are traditional steamed buns 枣馒头
yes, even in the freezing cold, they have live fish in a warm water tank
but veggies are sold inside a small heated tent
grab a taxi on the street in Shuan Cheng 在双城大街上叫出租
双城的大街 do you see any lanes?
freshly make seseme seeds oil
pig head! 好恐怖的一个猪头
pig tails 猪尾巴
共产党员摊位! this veggie stand is operated by a communist party member, so it is supposed to be more trust worthy
the winter road in Shaung Cheng - at a temp -22F!
The Nestle factory
10,000 fire crakers are ready for the new year
and some fireworks
more
they last forever
very loud
yup
two small cows waiting for food 两个小牛犊
it's really sad see how they live - can only standup and sit 当牛还真挺命苦的
农民来卖奶 一桶才20元左右 the local peasants sell milk for only about $3 per jar
这就是在商店里买奶粉原材料, 农民一桶桶的奶 - this is how the milk powder are made from
The sunset
This giant exhibition hall now is taken over by a grocery store chain 展览馆变成了家乐福
the street in Harbin
I used to live on this street, Red Army Street
but this street name is changed, I used to visit that museum almost everyday when I was little - nothing else to go
I lived in this building when I went to middle school
The narrow window on the right is the old home
a vender at a street corner
the street I walked to school everyday - Russian style buildings
an old cinema I frequently patronized when I was small, now it sells cell phons
my high school
I probably cleaned that window before when I was in high school
the front door of my high school
the stature is new though
and the rainbow is also new
the night is coming down, the smok is going up
an old hospital next to the railway station - the building is still pretty
yup, she is selling tea leave eggs on the stairs to the pathway to cross the street, very cold!
some ice sculpture next to the Harbin Raiway station
Harbin Raiway Station
a random guy waitifng for train
On the train to Mu Dan Jiang - 坐火车去牡丹江
过去土匪出末的山区, thse mountains are used to be the home for bandits
a guy bought a ticket without a seat, so he has to stand all the way from Harbin to Mudanjiang
that boat is not going anywhere
Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
does that look like you will get warmed up by entering that snow cabin?
I am getting some tea from teh giant snow tea pot
everywhere is white and snow
I am freezing
got the V backwards?
冰糖葫芦
even it's extremely cold, the snow starts to melt under the sun - Chairman Mao feels it
周恩来
the man actually pulls the thing on ice and makes a circle in 5 minutes - 70 yuan ($10) 人拉爬犁要70块
it's bigger than me
东北饺子王里的小店员在包饺子, 什么馅儿都有!
东北饺子王里的小店员在包饺子
农家院
冰钢琴吧 a world made from ice - including the piano
the bar is made from ice as well 酒吧也是用冰做的
冰桌子冰凳子,不是冰人 ice table, ice bench, but I am not made from ice
整个冰宫全是冰造的 - the enire ice palace is made from ice
even the dinning room is made from ice
will hot pot warm you up here?
龙江乡情 a deco mimic a peasant's home
even the bigger dining room is also made from ice
The old radio is hard to find now
I am charmed by the details in this deco
everything is so authentic
and everything is totally real, even the frozen dumplings
the waiter is explainng the dinning menu at the ice palace
on the old bicycles are tobacco leaves, 连旧自行车座上的大烟都特别到位
so much details
the place I used to live becomes a shop now
the door to the old home is forever shut, I am really lucky
It looks like a movie set
or a war zone
my best freind used to live at the end unit upstairs
my childhood was behnd that closed doors on teh left
Deng overlooks this lawless intersection
赵本山可能在这儿唱过二人转
the street corner of my choldhood home
the building I used to live in when I was a child
my elemenary school
take a last picture in front my childhood home
the neighborhood still looks the same as before
true slums
this tree is s till alive in the middle of the yard, it is like the soul of this court
that door opens to the underground where a giant stove burns to privde heat to the entire building in the winter - a hang out place for our little kids
the neighborhood still looks the same as when I was little
I used to watch documentaries at this News Cinema - and I was never able to reacch the box office window
小时候让我淌哈拉子的包子铺
the hospital looks exactly the same! I even had my tooth filled when I was little
a backery shop
a cute kid in the shop having ice cream on a freezing cold day
the bookstore now sells food
want to call anybody?
people still burning these coal bricks
omg, is there anybody dare to eat these frozen frogs?
the nice buildings are totally in ruining
look at those details behind the black smoke
people can be exposed to the cold, but not the veggies 人可冻, 菜不可冻
you can buy everythng on the street in this freezing cold winter
an old cinema, again, now it's a bathhouse
