Amusement Park Church

I made another visit to the Harbin Cultural Park (formerly the city's Novoye Cemetery) to see how its "Electronic Amusement Hall" (formerly the cemetery church) was doing. Still closed and unrestored unfortunately...

Looking at the church from the walkway that connects it to the old cemetery bell tower.

The church is still in quite a state. Renovation work just began on the Harbin Railway Station's Church of the Iveron Icon, so perhaps Holy Dormition Church will be next?

Jile Temple

I finally made it back to Jile Temple after far too long. It's always such a lovely, peaceful place. (Although there must have been a holiday or an exam coming up, there were more people running around burning incense than normal!)

My favorite of the Temple's pagodas.

You can just barely see the ferris wheel of the Harbin Cultural Park (formerly Harbin's Novoye Cemetery) peeking out from behind the trees.

Daowai Traffic

First time I've seen THIS in Harbin! Daowai District is so great...

Summertime on the Riverfront

After a rather wet start we're finally enjoying the gorgeous blue skies of a Manchurian summer.

It's always so nice to see people out flying kites in the squares along the Songhua Riverfront.

Alas, accidents do happen on occasion! (But how is quite the question, I wouldn't have thought you could drive down to this part of the riverfront!)