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Fly to Harbin Taiping International Airport
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1. Fly from Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Harbin Taiping International Airport (HRB)plane CPT - HRB
22h 46m
¥2,266–8,204
Fly to Daqing Sartu Airport, train
1. Fly from Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Daqing Sartu Airport (DQA)plane CPT - DQA
2. Take the train from Daqing West to Harbintrain
26h 55m
¥3,031–8,834

Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Harbin Taiping International Airport (HRB) flights

39Weekly Planes

24h 31mAverage Duration

¥2,147Cheapest Price

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Distance: 13,970 km
Duration: 22h 46m

What companies run services between Cape Town, South Africa and Harbin, China?

Qatar Airways, China Eastern Airlines, and nine other airlines fly from Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Harbin Taiping International Airport (HRB) every 4 hours.

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Harbin(opens in a new window), China(opens in a new window)

Harbin is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban population (after Shenyang, Liaoning province) and largest metropolitan population (urban and rural regions together) in Northeast China. Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities and seven counties, and is the eighth most populous Chinese city according to the 2020 census. The built-up area of Harbin (which consists of all districts except Shuangcheng and Acheng) had 5,841,929 inhabitants, while the total metropolitan population was up to 10,009,854, making it one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.

Things to do in Harbin

Saint Sophia Cathedral(Opens in a new window)

The Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom of God or Saint Sophia Cathedral in Harbin (, pinyin: Shèng Suǒfēiyà Jiàotáng, Russian: Софийский собор в Харбине) is a former Russian Orthodox church located in the central district of Daoli, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China.

Unit 731(Opens in a new window)

Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japan. Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China).

Places to stay in Harbin

Sofitel Harbin(Opens in a new window)

8.5Very Good

7Days Premium Harbin Heping Road Provincial Government(Opens in a new window)

10.0Exceptional

Atour Harbin Museum Hotel(Opens in a new window)

8.8Fabulous

Home Inn Xidazhi Street Engineering University(Opens in a new window)

10.0Exceptional

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