On Saturday night we ventured out to the Snow and Ice World. We left the hotel close to sunset so we would get a glimpse of the sculptures in the daylight and at nighttime! As you can see below, it was starting to get cold!! I think when we left the temperature was getting close to 0 degrees!
Snow and Ice World opened in 1999 to welcome 2000. It continues to grow every year. This year it encompasses 400 thousand square meters. The artists use over 120,000 cubic meters of ice and 100,000 cubic meters of snow. The structures were AMAZING - nearly all of them were life sized or over sized!! When the lights came on it was truly magical!
Of course, there was plenty of fruit dipped in sugar everywhere we looked! And Ellie went straight for the slides. However, this park was extremely crowded, so we had to watch the locals who most of the time forget how to que. Ellie is not nearly as pushy as her mommy, so I ended up standing guard while she went down the slides!!
The lights were just beginning to come on in this photo! Isn't the size just amazing?!
We wouldn't feel at home if there weren't some sort of animal being exploited for money! Thankfully Ellie was not interested in anything that had to do with the poor animals.
The Forbidden City in ice!
Here is one of the Terra Cotta Warriors...
It's starting to get dark now, just in time for our final tube ride of the night!! This one was pretty scary, but we all made it down safely!
Words truly cannot describe how beautiful this was at night! I have never experienced China in such a magical, transformed state!
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