Kota yang Terbuat dari Es di Cina

Sekitar 10 ribu pekerja menyiapkan karya sculpture terbesar yang terbuat dari es dan salju untuk acara Festival Es dan Salju Harbin ke-30 di Cina.

Dibutuhkan 330 ribu kubik meter salju dan es untuk membangun sculpture dengan struktur sangat luar biasa ini; yang juga secara detail lengkap dengan jendela, menara, dan kubah.

Festival tahunan ini akan dibuka di wilayah timur laut Cina pada tanggal 4 Januari 2014.

Workers stab iron pikes into the frozen Songhua River as they extract giant ice cubes. Each ice cube used to make the impressive sculptures weighs about 250 kilograms. 

A worker pours water onto ice cubes to make them stick to each other as he builds a sculpture. The weather in Harbin is influenced by the cold wind from Siberia. At this time of year the temperature typically ranges between -10C to -20C - ideal conditions for an ice festival.

Workers add the finishing touches to a giant snow sculpture, which was built with turrets and a dome. 

An icy palace is constructed in Harbin with the help of a crane and thousands of workers. 

The remarkable festival takes up an area of 750,000 square metres, and requires about 180,000 cubic metres of ice and 150,000 cubic metres of snow to produce the astonishing sculptures.