Fairytale ice sculptures in China’s Harbin attracts throngs of tourists

Illuminated ice sculptures at the Harbin Ice And Snow World in China’s Heilongjiang province. — Photos: Reuters

China's annual Ice And Snow Festival, with its fairytale ice sculptures, opened recently, attracting throngs of tourists who shuffled carefully over the slippy ice and snow and dragged their children in sledges around the park.

This time around, the ice park spans 810,000sq m with 250,000cu m of sculptured ice, harvested from the nearby frozen Songhua River, and lit up at night with colourful lights.