Known as the “Little Three Canyons of the Yangtze Waterway” or “Minimal Li Stream”, Longqing Chasm is the setting for the yearly Beijing Longqing Crevasse Ice and Snow Celebration. It is additionally called Longqing Chasm Ice Lamp Celebration. The celebration highlights ice lights, gigantic ice and snow models, and diversion regions.

In the event that you’re not going to Harbin for the greater Harbin Ice and Snow Celebration, Beijing Longqing Ice and snow Celebration is an extraordinary option for winter visit fun.

When to Go to the Ice Festival

Longqing Canyon Ice and Snow Celebration is typically celebrated from mid-January to the furthest limit of February.

It is open from 9am to 10pm consistently. Going during sunlight hours is best for the snow and ice exercises. Dusk is pretty much as soon as 5pm.

Nonetheless, the ice lamps and models look more splendid under the bright lights around evening time, so the best chance to be at the celebration is from 5pm to 10pm.

4 Top Things to Do at the Ice Festival

Appreciate the Ice and Snow Sculptures

Beijing ice and snow celebration is more modest than Harbin Ice and Snow Celebration, however it has a more private and mystical environment.

For the celebration, monstrous blocks of ice are etched into every kind of fascinating, wonderful, and now and again staggering shapes. This incorporates portrayals of creatures (counting legendary ones like mythical serpents), human figures, and lamps. There are generally in excess of 400 ice and snow models, and the most amazing ones are those depicting sanctuaries, royal residences, and obviously, the children’s number one: ice palaces, which you can stroll into.

At the deepest finish of the presentation region, there is a 70-meter-high ice cascade. The lights behind the ice cascade make it seriously enchanting.

To the surprise of no one, consistently the subject of the celebration is unique. The subject of the 2020 Longqing Ice and Snow Celebration was the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, so Winter Olympics components were displayed in the greater part of the works of art, communicating individuals’ energy for the Colder time of year Olympics.

Admire the Colorful Flower Lanterns

To make a creative environment for the ice lamps, Longqing Canyon Grand Region typically introduces numerous novel and bright bloom lights on the two sides of the primary street all through the picturesque region.

There are additionally bloom lamp shows with the topic of creatures, blossoms, birds, bugs, and fish, with the lights framing diagrams of various shapes. The encompassed trees are likewise embellished with Driven lights, which look exquisite from a good ways. The mountains around the chasm are additionally enlightened, making the entire picturesque region sparkling and splendid.

Enjoy Ice and Snow Activities and Other Festivities

While seeing the ice and snow figures, you can likewise attempt the snow sports, for example, ice skating, an ice slide, and ice fishing.

Furthermore, there are firecrackers (for the most part at the initial service), people moving, and different shows, introduced on the focal stage.

Visit Flower Cave

A priority fascination in Longqing Canyon is Bloom Cavern. It is enhanced with numerous fake trees, blossoms, and birds. Each room of the cavern has an exceptional subject. For instance, ‘Springtime Blossoming Blossoms’ and ‘Northern Landscape’.

It is warmer in the cave than outside in the winter, so it is a good place for you to escape the cold.

How to Get to Longqing Gorge

Longqing Canyon Ice and Snow Celebration is in Yanqing Area, around 80 km (50 mi) northwest of Beijing. There is no immediate public transportation to Longqing Canyon, so it very well may be not advantageous and agreeable to change and hang tight for the transports in the chilly climate.

The Badaling part of the Incomparable Wall is on the way from Beijing to Longqing Canyon. This part is the best-safeguarded and generally well known. Therefore it is liked by numerous sightseers, and on the grounds that it isn’t so much that that lofty it makes for a simple climb, which is conceivable in winter. Badaling doesn’t ordinarily experience the ill effects of congestion in winter.

More about Longqing Gorge

During the remainder of the colder time of year season, outside the ice celebration open dates, Longqing Crevasse is shut to travelers, yet it opens for the spring-fall season from April tenth to November fifteenth.

The crevasse is known for, in addition to other things, its bungee bounces. Take a lift camouflaged as a winged serpent to get up the Longqing Dam and from that point to the hopping stage. The site is positioned in the best six spots to go bungee bouncing in Beijing. It is additionally one of the settings for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.