Travel Routes to Welcome Winter Olympics, Celebrate Spring Festival

Updated : 2022-02-07Source : CCFAO
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There are only three days left before the Spring Festival. Fireworks, couplets and red lanterns...... In the city, one can see and feel that all is ready for the forthcoming traditional Chinese New Year. The local culture and tourism units have launched a series of products to meet the diversified consumption demands of both residents and tourists in an auspicious, peaceful atmosphere. 

February 4 is the fourth day of the first lunar month on which the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be officially opened. Changchun has taken active measures to disseminate the elements of Olympics while expanding the effectiveness of “Winter Olympics in Beijing, Experience in Jilin and Enjoyment in Changchun” by means of ice and snow products. sculptures, hot spring, folk customs and charm of modern city……Many activities are available. Are you ready? 

[Route 1] Changchun World Sculpture Park-Jingyue Lake National Forest Park-Jingyue Lake Ski Resort 

The first destination is the Changchun World Sculpture Park, a place of ingenious integration of humanistic arts and natural landscapes that ensures a full range of cultural and artistic models! As a national 5A scenic area, the Changchun World Sculpture Park is home to more than 10,000 pieces (groups) of art works from 216 countries and regions, ranking in a leading position worldwide in terms of the quantity and internationality of sculptures. It is an ideal venue for various large-scale events and also a popular public place for culture, tourism, leisure and health preservation. In addition, it’s been selected for extracurricular practice by a list of top Chinese universities. It is a wonderland for sculpture art around the world and also a golden business card of Changchun City! 

In winter, sculptures are well combined with ice and snow at the Changchun World Sculpture Park. The artistic ice and snow complex—Changchun Ice and Snow Amusement Park has now been opened to the public. It covers three amusement sections totaling more than 100,000 square meters, including Winter Olympic Slide, Children’s Ice and Snow Paradise, Terraced Mountain Slide and more than 20 entertainment projects through which you will no doubt have an absolutely unforgettable experience! 

Going towards the southeast of the Changchun World Sculpture Park, you can find the Jingyue Lake National Forest Park. It is a good place to spend your holiday in summer and enjoy ice and snow views in winter. The ice and snow sculptures and the sea of forests get combined into a beautiful painting. Static art, pure paradise and various entertainment products make it a fascinating wonderland of ice and snow. 

Go skiing after enjoying the scenery! The Jingyue Lake Ski Resort is located nearby, covering an area of 8 square kilometers. It is surrounded by forests on three sides and waters on one side, with unique geographical advantages and tourism resources. In addition to good snow quality and appropriate temperature, other highlights including superior location, well-designed snow tracks, big size, complete facilities, and aerial cableways and a rail slideway of 1,616 meters long, known as the longest in the world, have made the ski resort suitable for both beginners and professionals. Unlike its counterparts, the Jingyue Lake Ski Resort is located near the city center. It is the venue for the Vasaloppet International Cross-country Skiing Festival, widely recognized by ski fans and tourists at home and abroad. At such a ski resort, there is endless fun worth exploring! 

[Route 2] Changchun Ice and Snow New World-Mt. Tianding Ski Resort-Mt. Tianding B&B 

This year, the Changchun Ice and Snow New World takes “Snow-100th Anniversary, Ice-Winter Olympics” as the theme. It covers an area of 1.56 million square meters on which 260,000 cubic meters of ice and 390,000 cubic meters of snow have been used. It is pure, crystal at daytime. With lights on at night, it becomes a wonderland of fantasy in which people stroll back and forth with vitality like a flame in the cold winter. It is the unique climatic conditions that have created such dreamlike paradise of art and enjoyment of ice and snow! 

First come, first served. Free entry tickets are provided through WeChat and Tiktok accounts from January 28 to January 30, 2022. The details for participation through official channels shall prevail. 

It cannot be called a trip without trying skiing at the Mt. Tianding! The ski resort has been made ready for the public. The total area is 800,000 square meters, with 17 ski trails each of which is 7.5 kilometers, two cableways and three magic carpets. It can accommodate 5,000 people at most. The customers’ center, nearly 20,000 square meters, the third largest in China, provides one-stop service and international standard hardware, including 3,500 sets of snow appliances, 2,000 sets of snow helmets and clothes imported from Italy, which can fully meet the needs of tourists. It is not only a paradise for professional skiers, but also an ideal option for beginners who can also enjoy skiing with the guidance of professional coaches. Please be noted that the resort is closed from January 30 to 12a.m. on February 1 and will then reopened.  

Tired? You can go and rest at the Mt. Tianding B&Bs, which can accommodate more than 400 people in 89 independent courtyards in line with such themes as ice and snow, northeastern memory, parents and kids, boathouse, new couple and quadrangle with such facilities for fishing, outward bound, birthday party, wedding ceremony in seven sections, namely, Xuelitun, Quannongtun, Yongquantun, Kaoshantun, Guyoufang, Siheyuan and boathouse, featuring a unique B&B experience of being close to the “courtyard, landscape, orchard and farmland of the old times”. 

[Route 3] Lianhua Island Film-TV Leisure Culture Park-Lianhua Mountain Shimao Ski Resort-Guoxin Nanshan Hot Spring Hotel 

Sceneries are not enough for your holiday. The Lianhua Island Film and TV Leisure Culture Park will provide you a brand-new experience. The ice and snow activity series “have fun at Lianhua Island, show your style” will be held in the season 2021-2022 including a large-scale live detective, interactive drama of “Changchun Happiness” is scheduled from the second day to the sixth day of the first lunar month. 

It is a drama for multi-dimensional, in-depth experience of feelings about hometown, integrating such thematic elements as drama performance, live social interaction and immersive experience in a 3800-square-meter performance site featuring the scenes of the old Republic of China. It is a story about a civilian hero, which happened in the Lianhua Town more than 70 years ago, a competition between civilians and dignitaries, a battle of wisdom, true or false, and a choice between personal benefits and national righteousness. You can be a super detective, a celebrity of the times, or an outlaw to help the poor. Whatever role you play, you will be the protagonist at the site, enjoying it to your heart’s content with the feelings and ambitions in the story. The Lianhua Island Scenic Area has been committed to creating a performance brand with patriotic characteristics, and promoting the integrated development of culture and tourism of Jilin Province. The immersive product series at the Lianhua Island have become a new business card for cultural experience in Changchun City. 

Public Testing Time: February 2 to 6; Ticket Price: RMB199/person (original price: RMB399/person) 

After enjoying the story of the history, you can make a turn to the reality at the Lianhua Mountain Shimao Ski Resort. It is located inside the Changchun Lianhua Mountain Ecotourism Resort, covering an area of six square kilometers, 30 kilometers away from town and 20 kilometers away from the Changchun Longjia International Airport. With convenient transportation and obvious geographical advantages, the resort is good for skiing for entertainment and competition. It is a medium-sized ski resort, which is most suitable for beginners and ski fans at intermediate level. 

After skiing, you can try a unique difference from cold to hot at the Guoxin Nanshan Hot Spring Hotel! During the Spring Festival, the following activities will be organized. At 18:18 every night from the traditional Chinese New Year’s Eve to the fifth day of the first lunar month, fireworks shows will light up the night; and on the traditional Chinese New Year’s Eve, there will be a dumpling making party. In addition, other activities such as lucky draw, mascot giving, clown carnival, Olympic games for parents and kids and food DIY will make your holiday full of enjoyment! 

[Route 4] The Hill-Miaoxiang Mountain Ski Resort-Guilin Road Night Market 

There are hills inside The Hill, a commercial complex that integrates culture, tourism and commerce in harmony and unity, featuring two different architectural forms and styles of hillside and cave with clear spatial layers from streets, lanes to courtyards. Delicious foods, eye-catching bars, noisy night markets, quiet and colorful inns, and other diversified business forms have created a social destination and a micro platform for leisure and vacation in town. From January 31 to February 1, The Hill is closed, and will be reopened to the public on February 2 from which various activities will be organized one after another for your blessings! 

Go skiing to welcome the Winter Olympics! As an ice and snow business card of Jilin Province, the Miaoxiang Mountain Ski Resort is on the highest mountain near the city, with a maximum altitude of 497 meters and a maximum drop of 225 meters. The natural ecological coverage rate is as high as 87%. The coverage period of ice and snow is up to 4 months a year. The ice and snow tourism resources are extremely rich over an area of 350,000 square meters with a period of snow for 120 days. Qualify snow, appropriate temperature, unique natural geographic and climatic conditions have made the resort a superb place for ice and snow sport. 

In the 2021-2022 season, two new Alpine trails, two terrain parks and one veneer park will be opened to the public. It provides night skiing, and such 20 plus games as snow motorcycle, horse slide, snow football, hockey and ice bicycle in an amusement park totaling 30,000 square meters. 

Insiders say greetings will be sent to ski fans through an Ski App and red couplets-based ribbons meaning auspiciousness will be provided. During the Spring Festival, one can come and show his or her personal ID interface of the App to get a ribbon for free (if there was any left). 

When night falls, you may probably want to enjoy your fee time! The night market on Guilin Road is a nice place for “shopping and eating”! In such a place, bustling with noise and excitement, there are all kinds of characteristic delicacies and snacks. Come and enjoy strolling and experiencing the most authentic, simple flavors of life.