This year’s winter seems to be colder than ever. Although winter is cold, the winter scenery is not to be missed. Winter is also very suitable for self-driving tours. Harbin is very popular with tourists in winter. There is a highway in Harbin, it is the Yaxue Highway, here are some recommended self-driving tour routes for Yaxue Highway.
1. Highway Introduction
It is born in the winter of Northeast China, it is not as vast as the plain grasslands, not as dangerous as the high mountains and steep slopes, not as steep as the cliffs, and not as extended as the shapes… But it has the unique whiteness of the Northeast winter, the vast snow covering the road, the bare birch forests on both sides, one after another, the picture of the sea of forests and snow is more beautiful than the ink paintings of the south.
Construction started in 2009 and was completed and opened to traffic in 2011. In September 2015, the asphalt pavement was fully completed (originally a gravel road). It is 93 kilometers long. Because it connects the two most popular scenic spots in Harbin – Yabuli and Xuexiang, it has become the most distinctive tourist belt in the north.
Yaxue Highway passes through 7 forestry bureaus along the way, passing through the highest altitude mountains in Heilongjiang Province – Lao Tuodingzi, Datudingzi and Pingdingshan. The highest altitude of the route is 1370 meters, which will connect “Harbin’s ice sculptures, Yabuli’s skiing, Xuexiang’s snow viewing, and Fenghuang Mountain’s sea of forests and snow” together.
2. Self-driving routes
Harbin – Yabuli – Suiman Expressway – Yaxue Highway starting point – Xuexiang – Erlanghe – Moyan Highway – Jingpo Lake.
3. Must-visit attractions
Harbin
As soon as it snows, Harbin turns into Moscow. The Russian-style buildings in the snow also become one dreamy castle after another… You can have a Madier Ice Cream in your left hand and a string of sugar-coated haws in your right hand on the street in minus 30 degrees Celsius.
You can take a dog-drawn sled on the road covered with thick snow, you can listen to the old train whistle from beside you on the Songhua River, or you can listen to a local Northeast Errenzhuan in a tea house on Laodaowai Street.
Yabuli skiing
Yabuli Skiing Tourism Resort is known as China’s Davos. It is currently the largest ski resort in China and also the largest comprehensive snow training center in China.
Take the cable car to the top of the mountain, you can overlook the entire ski resort, and then take a car down the stainless steel slide, it is very refreshing and exhilarating; For example, horse-drawn sledding, a horse pulls a six-seater car around the ski resort, looking at birch trees, farmhouses, bandit dens, etc., it is very relaxed and novel… The only bad thing is that there are too many people in winter.
Xuexiang
The snow in Xuexiang is definitely the most beautiful snow in the world, pure and beautiful, it makes people want to roll in it.
Xueyun Street is a street hundreds of meters long, and it is also the most lively place in Xuexiang. There are all kinds of mountain goods on the street, and there are some restaurants. The whole street, from afar, looks full of the unique charm of smoke and fire under the reflection of red lanterns.
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