Harbin - Ice-Lantern Festival

The Ice-Lantern Festival is held every year between January 5th and February 5th in the Zhaolin Gongyuan Park. All the roads and houses in the town are decorated with lanterns and carvings sculpted from ice. The park itself is covered in a sea of lanterns, statues, miniature houses, temples, animals, plants, boats and other vehicles, all made in ice by local artists. At this time of year the temperatures range between -20 and -30°C (-4 and -22°F).