Jamie Madigan
05-28-2004, 09:30 AM
Click here for the pictures and captions. (http://www.rtoddking.com/chinawin2003_hb_if.htm)
The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin celebrate it, with an annual festival of snow and ice sculptures and competitions.
Make sure you scroll down the page and look at the entire buildings made of ice with neon lights embedded within them. Amazing.
The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin celebrate it, with an annual festival of snow and ice sculptures and competitions.
Make sure you scroll down the page and look at the entire buildings made of ice with neon lights embedded within them. Amazing.