I'll have to come back to organize and make captions, but here are a bunch of pictures from the huge ice sculptures for the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival. The actual event doesn't start for a little while, but this sculpture park seems finished and there are hundreds of sculptures large and small, in all stages of development, across the city.
We were there wandering around for a good hour and a half. Pretty damn cold at about negative 3 or 4 F. Notice the one yellow building way up on top of a hill. I don't know if they built the hill for this purpose, but there was a big double toboggan run. We didn't go because it was too cold to wait in line, but it looked like a blast. At the end of it they had a big snow ramp to shoot you up in the air to lose speed, then you slide (or tumble in some cases) back down.
Tell me if you recognize some of the structures. I think I recognized Notre Dame for example, Cinderella's Castle, the Forbidden Palace, and the blue temples are supposed to be the temples that guard a very famous area outside of Beijing, called Honjo (sp?). Anyway, let me know if you recognize any and I'll mark in the captions.
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