About this place

The park occupies an area of 84 thandsand square meters. It is a combination of Chinese and western style building featuring China's traditional gardening.

In 1963,at the suggestion and advocation of Harbin Government of that time, the gardeners made over one thoudsand ice lanterns, and dozens of ice flowers naturally by us of washbasin, buckets. They also made the first snow carving works in history - "A new world". All these ice and snow products were on show during the lantern festival in 9163. This caused a stir in the whole city, thus starting the tradition of ice and snow carving festival in Harbin.

Now very year, Zhaolin Park holds a ice and snow carving festival with different theme each year. The Ice Lantern Garden Party is spectacular at night. It can easily take two to three hours to see everything in this spectacle. The ground can be icy and slippery. There are a number of small ice slides. There are many fair rides like a ferris wheel available for fees. Small huts are present with snacks and drinks.