I’d only booked rooms for the first three days. I remembered at check-in in Yabuli yesterday that today was 31 December, so I had to find somewhere in a hurry. The year before, the cheapest dorm bed I could find on New Year’s Eve in Taipei was 1.7 million đồng, ten times the normal price. This year I found somewhere in Yabuli for 380 yuan, roughly 1.4 million đồng, just a few steps away. I’d have stayed where I was, but the price had gone up too much.
I checked out around ten and spent ages looking for my next room :D Finding the right house in northeastern China was hard work. A woman who lived nearby took me right to the door. Check-in was supposed to be after two, but I had nowhere else to go. Other places charged for early check-in, so I was relieved when the host didn’t say anything about it.
This bear I made last night in the old hostel, it's hard to melt in this weather:D
By this time I didn't know where to go, the ski area was close but quite large, there were 3-5 ski areas in it, most people would go to Sun Mountain. I don't know the language so it's hard to go there alone, I'm in the room texting my friend Thuy Lee to see if there's a tour I can take to ski and snow village.
The driver bought a ticket, took me to rent stuff, get the board, get the shoes and go shoes with me too:D I lost money, then said I'll find a beautiful guide to teach snow skiing, price teaching an hour about a hundred, hahaa but I can ski and have seen the basic snow skiing instructions so I can go to the park and skate myself. Skiing was 240 yuan for three hours and clothing hire was another 150. I needed waterproof clothes or I’d be soaked the first time I fell. I've been skiing for an hour and a half, and it's dark and I'm tired, so I'm going home. It was only after I got back to Vietnam that I found out Yinna could rent out ski gear, take me to the slopes and include a three-hour lift pass for 179 yuan in total.
From the trip Harbin. Read the Vietnamese original on Blogger
