I thought that I had organised to go to the Snow Festival one morning then the Ice Festival the following afternoon but had not understood properly the instructions given by the tour people nor they when I tried to make them understand what I wanted to do. This resulted in my going to the Snow Festival in the morning then going to bed early that evening only to have them bang on my door to tell me that the tour for the Ice Festival was immediately. So off I went. I think I was not charged for going into the Ice Festival as I had to show my passport and was then taken through a different entrance to everyone else. There are a lot of places in China where entry is free for those over 65 years old, apparently for foreigners as well.
Snow for the sculptures was made by a snow machine.
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| Making a snow sculpture |
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| Skating in-front of a sculpture |
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| Snow Slides |
The ice festival was in an area opposite to the snow festival area and although I had gone to both with an organised tour it would have been just as easy to have gone by myself as taxis there and back were in abundance, and not expensive as I had been led to believe.
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| No cruises today |
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It's me!
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| The entrance area |
The 'buildings' shown in the photos are all made of ice and what surprised me was that they could be walked on and through with mats being placed on the floor, including steps, so no-one slipped. The lighting of some changed occasionally as well.
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| This was also a slide |
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| This was meant to be a 'Gothic' building |
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| The view from the top of one of the slides |
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