And that is EXACTLY what happened to me this weekend. I went to the COLDEST place I've ever been, and frankly can't imagine a place that is colder. Harbin, China: home of the world famous Harbin Ice Festival where this weekend the highs were -24 C and the lows were -34 C. While it may have been COLD, it was also one of the most amazing things I've seen. They have created HUGE ice palaces the size of four story buildings that are filled with neon lights. They have recreated the Great Wall in ice, as well as the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz, and many other beautiful snow sculptures or "snow culptures and ice culptures" as the locals translated them. There was a mixture of the Chinese culture and their interpretation of western culture, but all around it was amazing.
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| Harbin "ice games", sitting in a crappy wooden seat and push yourself on a frozen lake. Who knew...the Chinese are easily entertained in cold weather? |
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| Neon lights frozen in Ice. Cold, but really fun to walk around in huge neon ice palaces. |
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| Bad ass officially means swimming in negative 33 degree C weather. |
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| "Snow 'Culpture" (as named by the Chinese) of various Disney and Pixar movies. Madagascar, Shrek, Ice Age....Nemo is on the other side. |
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| Huge Ice palace in the BIG ice park. (The Emerald City...with the Great Wall around it) |
Beautiful... that's fricking freezing!
ReplyDeletewow that's amazing! the Emerald City lights are awesome.
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