China unveils world’s biggest ice CITY filled with vast frozen skyscrapers in area as big as 300 football pitches

Visitors have been flocking from far and wide to visit the world's largest ice and snow festival dubbed "Disneyland on ice"

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China's Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is a family friendly, fun-filled dreamland filled with intricately designed, award-winning ice sculptures

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The festival has two main areas - Sun Island, and Ice And Snow World

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Harbin Ice And Snow World is largely open at night, and features illuminated, to-scale, ice skyscrapers

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The festival opened on December 17, and although it has no closing date the ice tends to melt in March

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Every inch of the winter wonderland is carefully curated from the icy surface of the Songhua River

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Swing saws are used to carve the ice into blocks, then sculptors use a variety of smaller saws, chisels, and picks to carve out their masterpieces

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