Saturday, 22 December 2012

Icehotel in Lapland

Ice hotel is the hotel made up by snow. The Icehotel in Lapland located in swenden, in Jukkasjärvi, a tiny little town 200 km north of the Arctic Circle.  Although it's not the cheapest, it is the biggest and best and the sight of this hulking structure of snow and ice on the banks of the Torne river is certainly impressive.

Every winter, ice is cut from the frozen Torne River in Jukkasjärvi. Builders and artists get to work with mammoth sized ice blocks and at the end of frenzied months of chopping, cutting, sculpting and probably a lot of schnapps drinking, you get one ICEHOTEL and an ICEBAR. And a lot of tendonitis injuries. Then to add insult to injury, it melts every spring.

The northern lights flash above a guest outside the icehotel, the largest frozen hotel in the world.
 


 

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