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Haerbing Trip - old
Haerbing
06/2/19

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Who ever would have thought that going to Siberia would be such a nice getaway? Sometimes you just have to get out of Beijing. Weekend trips are fantastic.
Another looooong train ride filled with games and horrible sleeping.
Well, on to the goods. First stop was the Tiger Park. Really famous in the area. Not only for going to see all the tigers (and ligers!) but you can buy food to feed to them. Not only steaks, but also LIVE food. It’s horrible. We met up with some people there, there was a huge group of us, and they collected money to buy a LAMB. They knew I was a vegetarian so they didn’t even bother asking me. I think it’s disgusting. There is nothing natural about that. And even if there was, getting joy out of seeing another sentient being being ripped apart is just a little more than sick. In my opinion anyway. It was so sad, the jeep came speeding out. The tigers knew what was happening and they ran after it. Without even stopping the jeep they opened the door and just pushed this little lamb out. Poor thing looked so dazed, but only for a little while. I turned away, but the tigers just went at it. Gross. The only 2 non-TBC people on our bus bought a chicken. That was gone even faster. The jeep came out and opened the window and threw the chicken on top of the jeep. It didn’t even hit the top, the tigers jumped on the roof of the jeep and grabbed it in their mouth. It was gone fast.
The rest of the place, aside from the open areas were really sad. Small concrete cages, and even in the open areas you could see something like the mange going around. Such is China though.
We went back to town and chilled around a fantastic Russian style church next door to our hotel and saw Christian (a friend from last semester who is studying up there).

Afterwards we went to what we all came to do, the ice festival. I can’t explain, and I’m sure the pictures can’t show. Huge ice palaces, life-size, amazing. Great Wall slide, a battle ship, an ice bar.

Sick again, or still. My immune system is horrible. But anyway, I tried to have fun the second day there before we left to go back to Beijing. We had the majority of the day. A group of us went to look around and found this snow hill that they had made that you could pay to slide down on tubes!! So, of course we did….for HOURS. It was so much fun. There were only 6 of us, but we took over the place and were quite a spectacle, like we usually are. We would hold each others tubes and go down in a chain, go down 2 or 3 in a tube, hit each other and fling each other around on the way down, run and jump. I’m sure it didn’t do much for my cold, but it was fun. The Chinese people watching us even got into it too :)