For one month every year, Harbin becomes a wonderland with majestic and amazing snow sculptures built across this northeastern province of China. Harbin festival is the biggest Ice and Snow Festival in the world where around 220,000 cubic meters of snow and ice are used to create awe-inspiring ice sculptures. Snow World. Ice palaces, Ice trains, Great Wall, are some of the massive structures which are built depending on the year’s theme. The height of the exhibits sometimes reaches more than 40 meters. The structures are highlighted and animated with lights and lasers magnifying the scale and design of the exhibits.
The festival attracts around 15 million visitors and artists annually. Besides the massive structures, you can enjoy dog sledding, ice hockey, skiing competitions, and the spectacular Ice Lantern festival. So, if you are not enamored by slug-fest like Holi, Songkran, and La Tomatina, you can head to Harbin to experience this extravagant spectacle. That is if you don’t mind the freezing temperature of -30 degrees. Come prepared for the teeth-chattering cold.
Place: Harbin, China
Date: starts Jan 5th, 2022
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I love that you included wildebeest migration on this list. What a unique phenomenon that would be to witness!
It is definitely!!
Sadly I haven’t been to any. I hope I can visit the festival in Rio also tomorrowland!
You will sometime soon!!
There are some fantastic events on here! I think I’d be up for most of them but la tomatina seems a little too much for me at the moment.
I’m sorry to say that I haven’t been to any of these but they’re definitely on my bucketlist. I think the top of my list is the Northern Light, I’ve heard no end of amazing stories so it would be great to experience this first hand. Great post, thanks for sharing 🙂
Amazing destinations! I didn’t know about La Tomatina, Bunol, but definitely it’s now in my bucket list! Thank you for sharing!
I have yet to go to any of these, I want to so badly. I am hoping this year I can see the northern lights. Thank you for educating us about each of the festivals.
I’ve got almost all of them on my bucket list, and the wildbeest migration and the Northern Lights are definitely on top of that list! I once visited Tokyo at the fag end of the cherry blossom season and even then it was so beautiful, with much lesser crowds. 🙂
They are all worth visiting.
I’ve been to some countries on this list, but none of these festivals. I would seriously love to do to the Snow and Ice Festival in China. It looks fantastic 🙂
Wow, such an amazing post. Really I like your blog.