Friday 6 January 2017

Frigid northern China hosts snow and ice sculpture festival


The metropolis of Harbin in China’s frigid northeast is hosting one of the global’s largest festivals offering ice sculptures of animals, caricature characters and famous landmarks.


The pageant, which officially opens overdue Thursday and last 12 months drew more than one million site visitors, showcases the place’s tradition of snow and ice carvings in addition to ice swimming inside the Songhua River. Harbin’s temperatures can fall to minus 25 degrees Celsius (minus 13 ranges Fahrenheit).



Harbin’s satisfactory ice and snow carvers had been busy setting the completing touches to their sculptures, which might be based on big chunks of ice which can be dragged out of the nearby river and carved, brushed, and lit up.

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