Harbin ice festival. Aphotic Expo Reprinted, these days it becomes a place so wonderful festival. For those who have not seen in his day:
The city of Harbin, is north of China, in the province of Heliojiang, and is world famous for its festival of ice and snow, held anualmene.
The temperature in Harbin reaches 40 degrees Celsius below zero and stays with the freezing temperature more than half a year.
The city is further north of the known stone cold Vladivostok, Russia, which is to 300 miles away.
What does one do here every winter?
perform an outdoor festival, of course!
Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin celebrate it, with the annual sculpture festival and powers of snow and ice.
The ice and snow sculptures in Harbin dating from the Manchu dynasty, but organized the first festival began in 1963 and the annual festival itself only started in 1985.
Since then the festival has grown into a massive event, drawing people-more than one million annually worldwide each winter.
The sculptures have become more elaborate and more artistic over time; this bear and her cub are only a small part of this beautiful wall sculptures 
Most sculptures displayed at the festival in the snow are competitive groups.
Each team starts with a cube of packed snow that appears to have a measure of three feet on each side, and that they begin to carve.
Teams come from all over the world to compete - Russia, Japan, Canada, France, to South Africa.Parte of entertainment is to guess what nationality is each team, based on the artistic style of the sculpture before reading the signs.
The snow festival is actually separate from the ice festival, both take place in vast fields in the Parque de la Isla del Sol to the north of Harbin River, Songhua Jiang.
Harbin is located south of the river, or a walk is rather cold.
is and it seems colder when you cross the bridge over the wide and very frozen Songhua Jiang. This sculpture is from the Canadian team.
to the sun looks cold in Harbin.
Although mid-afternoon the sun was setting over the snow festival further down the temperature of the temperature freezing.
But the entry of darkness were actually good news because it meant that the snow festival was the beginning.
The ice festival, there's nothing dark or lack of color.
Masses of people arrive at the entrance to the festival and are welcomed with dances and music that is heard in the distance, like a pop music festival.
Bright neon colored lights shine everywhere, buried within the ice blocks that are part of the sculptures that reached over 30 meters high, such as the entrance.
You can imagine people standing on top of this red - blue ladder ice.
The Great Wall simulates a large ice taboga; You can sit and scoot.
You can reach fantastic speeds and spectacular finish to the bottom if you use a slippery coat.
This huge ship was built of ice, with passengers on board.
Although insurance is not very seaworthy, the boat will float if after all is made of ice.
Hundreds of years ago during the Manchu dynasty, 1644 -1912 were these illuminated only by candles
A of the most popular of the festival is trying to climb this wall of solid ice.
Surprisingly, I did not see anyone fall, most arrived at the summit.
All the ice comes from Songhua Jiang, near the river, which provides unlimited quantities, large saws are required to cut through the ice, which can be several meters thick.
The ice festival is mostly a display of architecture.
However, a number of sculptures can be found in this festival of ice as the normal-sized bust of the horse. Agile
young, with good balance these horses up to have their pictures taken.
Notice the different layers of ice on the horses, the blocks of ice are fused together to form larger blocks so you can carve large sculptures such as these buildings.
Nothing better to fight the cold, to ally with. The teams come from all over the world to compete in Russia, Japan, Canada, France ... to South Africa 
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Aphrodite.
