There is a place where one is able to feel as if they were living inside the Frozen movie. This is the Chinese city of Harbin, located in northeastern China and near the border with Russia, which has icy temperatures up to -38ºC and one of the most recognized festivals in the world, which has been held since 1963.
The festival, known as the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, opened its doors on January 5 and will be open to the public. until early March 2025. It is expected that, like every year, the number of visitors will exceed one million, so if you want to visit, the best option is to avoid going during the Chinese New Year, since it is the time when accommodation is most expensive and busiest. this.
The work to prepare the event begins several weeks before, around December, when the blocks of ice that will give shape to this spectacular festival, which is currently one of the four most important in the world in this category, along with the one in Sapporo, located in Japan, the one in Norway and the one taking place in Canada.
Harbin Festival
The event has three theme parks: the “Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo”, the “Harbin Ice and Snow World” and the “Zhaolin Park Ice Lantern Fair”. Furthermore, he managed to enter eGuinness Book in 2007 after presenting the largest snow sculpture in the world, with a length of 250 meters and a volume of 13,000 square meters of snow. The work had two parts: Niagara Falls and the “Bering Strait Crossing.”
He Entry price to these venues is as follows: 150 yuan ($22) for the Zhaolin Park Ice Lanterns, 240 yuan ($34) for the snow sculpture park or 330 yuan ($47) for the Ice and Snow World.
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