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🕚 On Saturday at 11:30 AM, we happily set off from Harbin city. The entire journey was on the highway, with only one rest stop at a service area. After 3.5 hours, we arrived in Yichun city at 3 PM. 🍽️ Then we went to a local favorite halal restaurant for a meal, finishing at 4 PM. From Yichun city to the deer park, although the speed limit is 80, the one-hour drive had good road conditions and beautiful scenery. 🏠 Since the deer park is crowded on Saturdays, we arrived around 5 PM and directly checked in at the front desk of the yellow villa at the entrance. There are three accommodation options at the deer park: staying in tents inside the park, camping with your own tent, or staying in the blue villa outside the park. We chose the third option. All options require advance booking, and I had a local friend help me with the reservations. Note that none of these options include the entrance fee, which is 40 yuan per person. The tent area is always accessible, but it's inconvenient for washing up and can be damp in the morning and evening, so I had to give it up due to health reasons. The blue villa is old but comfortable. The downside is that you have to walk 50 meters to the park entrance and wait for staff confirmation to enter in the morning. We entered the park at 6:30 AM, an hour and a half earlier than the main crowd at 8 AM, which was great for taking photos with fewer people around. 🦌 The deer in the park are very clean and gentle. Even without food, you can pet them freely, which is very healing. Here are some photo tips: try to wear white clothes, and if there are too many people and fewer deer outside, go deeper into the park where there are more deer. However, the deer deeper in the park are shy and need to be fed to get close, but they are very photogenic. It rained the day we went, but that allowed us to see a misty, fairy-tale-like deer park. 📸 We finished taking photos by 9:30 AM. As more people started arriving, we went back to our room to rest for a while. We checked out at noon, had lunch in the city an hour later, and then returned to Harbin, arriving home around 6 PM.