I woke up one morning, looked out the window and saw exactly the scene I’d always dreamed of. Haha, I love snow.
My room was probably one of the cheapest in Harbin :D It was wonderfully warm. I’d picked a windowless room on the app and somehow got a view of the street. I noticed the day I booked the room and received the room late (12pm) the hostel electricity is still on, the owner turned on the electricity waiting for me, I went through and around a few times but because the name on the sign n different from on the app so I did not go in, the next day the electricity was cut off early (moved to tears)
Street view from the hostel and hostel photo
I’d planned on Harbin Ice and Snow World, but then Thuy Lee posted a video of the long ticket queue. I couldn’t be bothered, and admission was over a million đồng. Now I have a reason to come back :D I got up around noon, ate, then wandered over to the pedestrian street.
The average ice cream shop, I'm not sure if anyone is buying, but it's a crowded place in the pedestrian area.
I walked into a random shop and chose something from the menu. I think these are wontons. There are similar things called bao, buns and dumplings :D A bowl was 12 yuan in town, compared with 30 to 50 in tourist areas.
After dinner, we went to walk around, passed Harbin railway station, went to the walking street, bought so much food that we couldn't eat it all:D
This ice cream sandwich was expensive :D It was 50 yuan, around 180,000 đồng. It tasted good and looked good, and people kept looking over and asking where I got it. I don’t speak Chinese, so I pointed in the seller’s direction. When someone asked at St Sophia Cathedral, I showed them a photo of the pedestrian street :D
I’d spent about five hours outside in subzero temperatures well below −10°C. Back in the room I had no energy left for Mass and couldn’t find a church with a service anyway :D I stayed in and prayed there.
In Cape Nemo we can not take any beautiful pictures, not to the ice world, not to go to the park, not to Russian village: D because for me walking, looking at the scenery, looking at people passing is enough r: D
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