Friday, January 7, 2011

Friday Inspiration - Harbin Ice Festival in China


Matt just sent a link to this photograph from the Harbin Ice Festival and I think it's AMAZING. So amazing that I had to immediately google the festival to find more images to view.

I happily stumbled across a blog, "lifeisreallybeautiful", that had some great photo's that may be from the original Reuter's article or not, I can't quite tell.








The city is located just below Siberia and is COLD. Temperatures average -2°. This year temperatures have dropped to -34°. Oh my gosh cold!! The festival just opened a couple of days ago on the 5th and will run for one month. I think I could suffer through the cold to add this to my list of "must see" places in my lifetime. I think. The lights in the ice are just spectacular. Matt, are you up for it?


The blog also linked to a video from Youtube that I have to share. The link was for the first video and is from a few years ago, but it gets the point across. It's a fast pace look at the entire festival. I got a little motion sickness 2/3's of the way through but I think I saw a woman standing near a sculpture with a deer on a leash. Yes, a deer. The second video is from this year. Not quite as exciting but current!


Enjoy and Happy Friday!





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  1. SuggamamaJanuary 7, 2011 at 6:10 PM

    We were watching the BBC special on China last night and this festival was the topic, just after I showed it to Dustin in the newest National Geographic. How can i not know about something and then have it show up 3 times in 24 hours?

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  2. SuggamamaJanuary 7, 2011 at 10:34 PM

    In case you are interested in the series it is on Netflix instant and it is called Wild China and the episode is Beyond the Great Wall (#4).

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