Harbin Ice Festival Via Photos

In January, I attended the annual Harbin Snow & Ice Festival in Harbin, China. I am SO far behind on my blogging that I am going to simply tell the story of the ice festival through photos...

It takes 30,000 people three months to build this city.  Workers cut solid ice blocks out of the river and string LED lights throughout to create this....

We ran into a few friends from ISB...

Here's the river where the ice blocks come from. Apparently when they dismantle the city of ice, they just dump the blocks right back into the thawed-out river. It's an ENORMOUS river!

It was -40F!