Energy-guzzling snow parks boom in sizzling Thailand


This file photo taken on August 14, 2015 shows children laughing and screaming while sledding at Snow Town in Bangkok. - AFP

BANGKOK, Oct 8, 2015 (AFP) - In a hall filled with psychedelic ice sculptures, there are shrieks of excitement as a toboggan careers down an ice run, its occupants snugly wrapped up against the sub-zero temperatures. But this is no fun park in an icy Siberian wasteland -- this is tropical Bangkok.

"It feels good," 28-year-old Songphol Taesinlapasathit tells AFP, his breath visible in the chilled air.

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