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Every year Harbin, located in North East China, hosts International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Harbin faces directly the cold winter wind from Siberia. The average temperature in summer is 21.2 degrees Celsius, and in winter it varies from -16.8 degrees to – 38.1 degrees Celsius.
The Harbin festival is one of the world’s four largest ice and snow festivals, along with Japan’s Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada’s Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway’s Ski Festival. This years theme of the Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival of Harbin is “Ice World, Olympic Dream”. The sculptures at the expo consumed 120,000 cubic metres of snow and 10,000 cubic metres of ice. This year the show started on December 20.
Some Photographs of the Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2007 at Harbin.
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Update: December 24, 2008
Photographs of ice and snow world of 2008 in Harbin are available at China View.
View a Video Clip on A Day and Night at the Harbin Ice Festival
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Wow it was really a breath taking article on Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival of Harbin, China. Great work. Keep it up.
Thank you for posting, some of those pictures are incredible. I’ve never seen anything like this before. You see the ice sculptures in different sizes and shapes and stuff but this goes beyond anything I’ve seen before, with the colours and lights. I’d love to go and see something like this close up.
Incredible ice sculptures. I found some creative design art work. Thanks for sharing this wonderful post.