3. Longqing Gorge

Longqing Gorge has an Ice Lantern Festival featuring colorful lanterns, snow sculptures, ice lanterns and a contest featuring international ice lanterns and snow sculptures.

Jan. 16 to Feb. 21. Admission: 90 yuan. For tickets, call +86 10 57259297.

Longqing Gorge has an Ice Lantern Festival featuring colorful lanterns, snow sculptures, ice lanterns and a contest featuring international ice lanterns and snow sculptures. Chang'an City, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf and Chang'e are some of the many shapes the lanterns here take. Although festival themes change every year, the ice waterfall remains a staple. The huge ice cascade hang down from the 70-meter-high dam, beneath which is a beautiful ice and snow paradise.