Located in Songbei District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China, the Ice and Snow World is an event that combines ice and snow art, ice and snow architecture, ice and snow sports. Every year, it sets up different themes to create artworks related to snow. In 2024, Harbin ice and Snow World won the Guinness World Records and became the largest ice and snow theme park.
The Ice and Snow World is renowned for its amazing sculptures. Here visitors can see various sculptures. People in Harbin transport tons of ice blocks to create sculptures. They have set up different themed areas where visitors can admire a diverse range of stunning ice sculptures. Besides, these themes convey different meanings. The most magnificent ice sculpture in the Ice and Snow World is the Crown of Ice and Snow, which is combined with 24 splendid ice pillars reaching up to the sky, making visitors feel as if they were in the kingdom of ice and snow. At night, there is a light show, with colourful light filtering through the ice sculptures, like a land filled with rainbows.
The Super Ice Slide is all made of ice and there are 14 slides in total, with the longest one being 521 meters. When visitors slide they will enjoy the thrill as if they were flying in the sky. At night, there is a light show on the slide, which makes visitors feel like traveling through time with the brilliant lights and the fantastic sculptures that pass by will bring you a unique visual experience.
In China, there is a poem : ''会当凌绝顶,一览众山小 '', it means once you have climbed to the top of the hill, you will see how fantastic the scenery is. In the Ice and Snow World, there is a giant ferris wheel called Snowflake Wheel, which is the highest structure there. Once visitors reach the top of the wheel, they will be blown away by the scenery. It is amazing to see all the buildings turning so small as if they were in the Lilliputian land from Gulliver's Travels.
The divers of the Ice Car Ballet Show in the Ice and Snow World are all the top Chinese drivers, they drive high-performance racing cars and special vehicles, stage the extreme dance of motorbikes and cars in the ice and snow, make the cars dance like ballet and restore the thrilling flying car scene in the films. It gives visitors a visual feast combining ballet and cars.