Tour of "The Big World of Ice and Snow", cont

I can't wait to get back to my warm hotel-room to re-heat my frozen body and re-count my toes. Everytime I counted my toes, during my hours in the ice-park, I came up one toe short?? I have a feeling that this will be the only time I will visit Harbin during the winter, though I may have to return and look for that missing toe in the spring thaw.

#111 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China ( HARBIN: Part 2, World of Ice & Snow, Stalin Park, Buddhist Temples and Confucian Temple!)

January 14th 2009
THIS IS PART "TWO" OF MY 2009 WINTER-VISIT TO HARBIN, THE "FROZEN" CAPITAL OF HEILONGJIANG, THE NORTHERN MOST PROVINCE OF CHINA: MY PRIMARY REASON FOR BRAVING THIS 24 HOUR TRAIN-JOURNEY FROM TAIZHOU TO SUB-ARCTIC HARBIN IS THE ANNUAL "ICE AND SNOW FESTIVAL", WHICH INVITES VISITORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, DURING THE MONTHS OF DECEMBER THROUGH FEBRUARY, TO ONE OF THE GREATEST SNOW- AND ICE-CARV ... read more

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