Daowai Traffic

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

Daowai Bridge

One of the bridges over the Songhua, this in central Daowai. The whole area has a potentially beautiful riverfront, but virtually no places to sit and enjoy the view. (Unless you've carted in your own seating, drinks, and food of course.)

Riverfront Church

A lovely little Chinese Catholic church near the Songhua riverfront in central Daowai. (On Jiangpan Road near where it crosses the 20th Alley of North (Bei) Road - Bei Er Shi Dao Lu in pinyin I believe.)

Rural City

This is a 20 or 30-minute walk from one of the northern stops along the Harbin Metro's Line 1. It's amazing how quickly the city can start to fade into the countryside. Still definitely within the city - if you turned around from this shot you'd be facing a huge dump and scattered apartment blocks - but much more spaced out and greener than central Harbin is!

Daowai Mural

One in a set of lovely murals along a road in northern Daowai, Harbin's northernmost (and poorest) district.

Daowai Mosque

Harbin's Daowai Mosque, founded in 1897 and rebuilt and enlarged in 1935.