The south entrance to Zhaolin Park this winter. Every year the Park features incredible ice sculptures as part of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. The entrance fee is ¥150 (about US$22) and well worth it!
The inner gate at the south entrance to the Zhaolin Park Ice Festival.
Looking back towards the inner gate. This year the walkway featured plaques with the history of Harbin's Ice and Snow Festival.
The skill and diversity of the ice sculptures featured at Zhaolin is just incredible!
There were two or three ice sculptures featuring dolphins, but this was my favorite...
Dancers - simple, yet elegant.
I believe this depicts a character from Chinese opera.
An ice sculpture of a Kazakh eagle hunter!
Some of the sculptures were simple, others (like the one pictured above) were quite complex.
There were some ice sculptures depicting cartoon characters, but I definitely wasn't expecting to see something from Alien!
Seriously so much gorgeousness!
One of the smaller entryways to the park. A lot of the more monumental ice structures at Zhaolin Park were beautiful homages to classical Chinese architecture, something sadly not seen in most Chinese cities today...
