Rime Island
This is our last day before going back to Harbin and flight out back home. Today our activities is just going to Rime Island.
Located in Wulajie, a small Manchu town in the north of Jilin City, Rime Island is a small island on the Songhua River. It is one of the best well-known scenic spots in China which boasts beautiful rime scenery as ‘China’s Top Four Natural Wonders’.
Popularly known as frost flowers or ice-rimmed trees, rime refers to frost attached to tree branches, different from snow or ice. It only appears in winter because very a low temperature is required. Also there should be abundant water vapors. Embraced by water on all sides, Rime Island enjoys an advantageous position, which is perfect for the formation of frost flowers. The water here does not freeze in winter, generating water vapors continuously. When blown by breeze, they fly to trees nearby and condense to form rime due to the dramatic drop of temperature. In winter, the oddly-shaped weeping willows along the river banks on Rime Island are dressed in pure white. From a distance, the frost flowers look like white clouds or waves. Visitors may feel they are in a fascinating crystal fairyland with jade trees and silver flowers.
After finish from here, we get in shuttle van again and drive us to Jilin train station where we already bought a ticket to Harbin West and then take taxi to Airport for flight out to Beijing with China Eastern and then continue with AirAsia to Jakarta with transit at Kuala Lumpur.
That’s it end of our story for Winter North China trip.
Trip Map
