Beiji Village — known in Chinese as Beiji Cun, or simply Arctic Village — sits 30 kilometres north of Mohe town on the south bank of the Heilong River (Amur), with Russia directly opposite. It is the furthest north any visitor can legally travel in China, and that geographical extremity is the entire point of the trip. The village itself is small — a few dozen wooden houses, guesthouses, and a monument marking the northernmost point — but the setting is genuinely remote and beautiful.
In winter the Heilong River freezes hard enough to walk on, and the sight of the Russian forest on the far bank, the frozen white expanse between them, and the possibility of aurora overhead on a clear night makes the village feel like the end of the world in the best sense. Overnight stays improve aurora chances considerably — the village's distance from Mohe's lights makes the sky noticeably darker. In summer, the solstice brings twilight that never fully darkens, and the river runs wide and dark between stands of birch and pine.