A couple of hours later, we were in Harbin looking for the bus shuttle to the center. Once again everything was in Chinese so we bought tickets for a shuttle without knowing exactly where we would end up. Tickets in hand we walked out of the airport to get into the bus and experienced the 1st impression of cold. We were nicely surprised when we saw next to the bus our very 1st ice sculpture: a rabbit. Made me thought of Easter somehow :)The bus drive was about 45min to the center. We stepped out at the station planning to take a taxi to the hotel. This turned out to be a bit of a challenge for the simple reason that there is some kind of taxi mafia in Harbin (I guess the Russian influence) and each time we asked drivers would ask for 5 to 10 times the price with meter. It seems they see foreigners as cash cows. Given we knew how much we should pay we walked around asking every taxi we could find until one agreed to take us with the meter on. 15min later we were at the hotel. We checked in, dropped the suitcase, wrapped ourselves in all the layers of clothes we had brought, asked a map at the reception and headed for Zhongyang Dajie, Harbin central street.
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