Ice Festival

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Hi All,

Today we got up a little bit late so we decided to have a look around the city this morning and then in the afternoon we went on to the ice festival.

I have never felt cold like it is here. I'm putting on half of my wardrobe to go out and I'm still cold. Daniela is putting on so much that she's finding it difficult to walk!!

We went to the St Sophia cathedral first, well it's no longer a church but has a collection of old photos inside which to be honest weren't that interesting as it was all in Chinese but the building is spectacular but rather run down inside. I don't know if it was ransacked by the communists. There isn't a lot of info as to what happened after the revolution. From there we went to the new synagogue. Again no longer a place of worship but very interesting. On the ground floor it has a collection of paintings and on the 1st and 2nd floor it has an interesting exhibition about the Haerbin Jewish community. After a lunch of delicious noodles we had a quick pitstop at the hostel to put on more clothes!!

We also stumbled upon some dancers in the city centre. At least they were keeping warm.

We then went onto the ice festival. It was a lot smaller than I had imagined but there again if it had been any bigger we'd have got frostbite!! The ice sculptures are really spectacular and really come alive once the sun went down and they turned on the illuminations.

Enjoy the photos

Jah Bless

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Comments

[Malc Dixon]

litter-less
wow, i bet you felt like 2 kids that had just discovered cartoons!! it looks very exciting tek care love from malc & kirsty