Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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2014 Harbin Snow & Ice Festival — Harbin, China

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The world famous Snow & Ice Festival of Harbin, China is the largest ice and snow sculpture festival in the world. The 30th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival of 2014 starts on January 5th and it will continue till February 28th. Discover this great festival of china which turns the Chinese city into a winter wonderland.

Harbin ice festival offers a gigantic view of buildings and architecture which are fashioned from huge blocks of ice cut from Songhua River (a local frozen river) and blocks of man-made snow. A huge number of professionals involved to make the sculptures which resemble the buildings or maidens or other wonderful structures.

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During day time the whole surrounding of Harbin Ice Festival looks white as snow and during night it looks like a colorful city of lights for some of them lit up fancifully at night. The greatest ice sculpture attractions of 2014 are Empire State Building of New York, Colosseum of Rome, Reykjavik’s Hallgrimskirkja Church and the Great Wall of China.

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Millions of International visitors explore this frozen realm every year before it melts. This is how Ice festival of Harbin finds the niche to become the largest festival of its kind on the planet. Harbin Ice and Snow Festival is one of the best festivals of the world you won’t want to miss.


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Check out this amazing video of Harbin Ice Festival 2014



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26 comments:

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    1. Yes, Gorgeous creations of ice. Thank you, Indrani.

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  2. How nice...!!! Nice to know about such wonderful things.

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    1. Thank you, Preethi. It's my pleasure I can come up with many more wonderful things of our planet.

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  3. Nice post..didn't know about this festival. thanks for sharing Bharati :-)

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  4. Amazing creations! Thanks for this informative post Bharati :)

    Regards,
    Sindhu
    Tantu
    The Arts & Me

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  5. This is amazing! Hats off to the creative people!

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    1. Yes, Mukulika, Hats off to these creative people who built such sculptures from ice cubes :)

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  6. Nice and informative. I saw such ice sculpture in Ottawa Canada.

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  7. Whoaaaa! That's all Ice isn't it.? Awesome. :D :)
    Looks amaaaaa-aaazing! :)

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    1. Yes, Nikhil. All these structures are made of ice. Isn't it interesting?

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  8. In would love to see these in person.
    I am always happy to see you visiting my blog...janey

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    1. My Pleasure, Janey. Thank you for visiting mine :)

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  9. This is one place I want to visit.. absolutely stunning creations.

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    1. Yes, Namrota, this place is worth visiting :)

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  10. These are some incredible images Bharati. A short lived piece of stunning art!

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  11. One exotic place i would like to wish. Truly speaking, more than place, i like to interact with Chinese ;)

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  12. Hello Bharati, Catching up on yours posts.....The ice sculptures are amazing. I visited a university in the U.S. that makes similar ones during their winter carnival.....but nothing this spectacular!

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