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China and New Year
Huge, taller than 26 meters, the tower was built to be the center of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, which will be fully open in 2014
10,000 workers worked non-stop to complete the remarkable figures of snow and ice.
More than 180 thousand square meters of ice were used, which were extracted from the Songhua River and dragged to the festival site.
The difficult task of working a giant ice cube pulled from the river to the main festival site. Each ice cube weighs about 551lb (250kg)
Felling of ice floes in the river Songhua. They will use the 180,000 square meters of ice
One worker polishes the ice sculpture - of thousands of frozen blocks in the photo - before the start of celebrations in January.
Source: globalvillenews.com
10,000 workers worked non-stop to complete the remarkable figures of snow and ice.
More than 180 thousand square meters of ice were used, which were extracted from the Songhua River and dragged to the festival site.
The difficult task of working a giant ice cube pulled from the river to the main festival site. Each ice cube weighs about 551lb (250kg)
Felling of ice floes in the river Songhua. They will use the 180,000 square meters of ice
One worker polishes the ice sculpture - of thousands of frozen blocks in the photo - before the start of celebrations in January.
Source: globalvillenews.com
