We asked the hostel to call ahead to check our next destination was open. Being New Year's Day we had already been warned the restaurants would be closed. It was so off we went to hail a cab to get there. We were off to the Siberian tiger park. We'd heard they had a good breeding program there then trained and released back into the wild. We were first headed into a bus to go around the outer area of the park. From the map it looked like there were lots of dif...

Harbin Day 1 & 2 So this is it, we'd been looking forward to and dreading this part of the trip in equal measure. I'd seen about this amazing ice festival that takes place for a month in Harbin, In northern china. Crazy palaces built out of ice and an international snow sculpture expo. The downside is temperatures go between -20 and -40c. I have never known temperatures that cold and we had only been able to prepare so much as our bags were so small. When ...