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Don't Let the Sun Shine in China

By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 08:25 PM


The 2008 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, in China, is home to the largest snow sculpture ever created.


The sculpture is called Romantic Feelings and is is 115 ft high and 656 ft long.


2008 Harbin Ice and Snow festival, China  “Romantic Feelings”         

                            

"Romantic Feelings" was made by joining together 15ft square blocks of natural ice and snow, taken from the nearby Songhua River, which have been compressed to withstand blows from hatchets, saws and shovels.

600 sculptors from 40 countries have used 120,000 cubic feet of snow and ice to create the Olympic themed landscape - a vista of Russian churches, French cathedrals, Chinese palaces and, an ice Acropolis.

Many of the sculptures are melting rapidly in the midday sun and emergency repairs have already been carried out to stop them collapsing completely.

Read the article from The Daily Mail

The Ice Maiden: China unveils largest snow sculpture ever created    ä here



Snow sculpture of Napoleon


Snow sculpture of the "Thinker"


 

Ice sculpture of the Tiananmen gate




 
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