Annual ice festival opens in northeast China

Annual ice festival opens in northeast China

A crowd watches swimmers diving into a hole dug in an ice-covered river in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin on Jan. 5, 2016, during a swimming competition. The event was held before the city's annual ice and snow festival beginning later in the day. The festival, which started in 1985, attracts many visitors for its ice sculptures and illuminations despite the harsh conditions, with temperatures falling close to minus 20 C. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000081916
  • Registered date
  • 2016/1/05 17:01:27
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • Media size
  • 3968 × 2669 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 1.01(MB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Sapporo Snow Festival preparations

    Sapporo Snow Festival preparations

    Trucks haul snow for the Feb. 5-12 Sapporo Snow Festival at Odori Park in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Jan. 7, 2018. The festival will feature more than 200 snow and ice sculptures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
      Ice and snow festival in Harbin

      Ice and snow festival in Harbin

      People visit the annual ice and snow festival in Harbin, China, on Jan. 5, 2018, the opening day of the event that will run through the end of February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
        Traditional Yokote Kamakura Festival to start

        Traditional Yokote Kamakura Festival to start

        Children warm themselves with charcoal braziers inside snow huts in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2017, during a photo event before the two-day Yokote Kamakura Festival, which has a history of about 450 years, begins the following day. The festival features a number of igloo-like snow huts built in locations across the city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
          Snow and ice festival begins in China's Harbin

          Snow and ice festival begins in China's Harbin

          Snow and ice sculptures and structures are illuminated at the annual snow and ice festival in Harbin, the capital of China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province, on Jan. 5, 2017, the opening day of the event that will run until the end of February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
            FEATURE: A trip down Sapporo Snow Festival's winter wonderland

            FEATURE: A trip down Sapporo Snow Festival's winter wonderland

            Photo taken Feb. 5, 2016, shows an ice block that appears to encase flowers at Sapporo Snow Festival, which started the same day in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo. The seven-day event is expected to attract more than two million foreign and domestic tourists. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
              Sapporo Snow Festival begins

              Sapporo Snow Festival begins

              Crowds of visitors take pictures during the opening ceremony for the seven-day Sapporo Snow Festival on Feb. 5, 2015, in front of the snow sculpture of a gate of the Kasuga Taisha Shrine at Odori Park in the northern Japan city of Sapporo. The event attracts more than 2 million domestic and foreign tourists every year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo