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New Year means Winter in many places, and one of them is Harbin, located in the province of Hei Long Jiang (黑龍江 — literally Black Dragon River), in China.

The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival kicked off earlier this month, and features a great number of real-sized buildings and structures, including Asian Pagodas and Temples:

I find it hard to believe that all of this is made out of ice!

The Saddest Part…

Is that Harbin’s temperature in Summer averages 21º Celcius — which means everything will be gone in a few months!

Source: Boston.com (Photos by REUTERS/Sheng Li)

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