(여행) ABC 하얼빈 얼음축제
(여행) ABC 하얼빈 얼음축제
And polar paradise. We take you to a city to amaze you. A city on ice. From the global resources of ABC News, this is ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. And finally tonight, by this point in February, most of us have had it with frigid snow and ice. But in one city, these are the days of dreams and creativity. And ABC’s Clarisse Ward takes us on a voyage to the ice festival in Harbin, China.
At first glance, it could almost be mistaken for Las Vegas with its gaudy야한 colors and neon lights. But this city isn't built on sin, it's built of ice. 5.6 million cubic feet of it, to be precise. Carved from the neighboring Songhua River, it’s enough to fill 64 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Add another 4.2 million cubic feet of snow and you’ve got one of the largest ice and snow festivals in the world. More than 10,000 laborers worked day and night, this guide explains, to build this in less than three weeks.
Chinese ingenuity at its most impressive and most efficient. "It's indescribable, right, you know, just like most of China is indescribable because it's so large and everything's on such a massive scale." Every year, the desolate황량한 Harbin frost is transformed into a polar paradise complete with Egyptian sphinxes, terracotta warriors, and more. The real Great Wall took hundreds of years to build.
This one took just 20 days and it has one major advantage. The temperatures may be frigid. Zero on a mild day. But that doesn’t stop people from across the country and the world from visiting. Some 10,000 today. A distinctly Chinese version of a winter wonderland. Clarisse Ward, ABC News, Harbin.