For those of you who want to vacation while enjoying the giant ice sculptures are amazing, just come to Harbin. Harbin is a sub-provincial city located on the south bank of the Songhua river. The place known as the ‘City of Ice’ because of the long winter and this winter is the capital of Heilongjiang province, China.

International Snow and Ice Festival Harbin (Harbin International Snow and Ice Festival) is an annual event in the city of Harbin, held since 1995. The festival is officially on January 5, and lasts for a month. But sometimes the festival was opened early in November, and the festival has been extended for ice and snow has not melted. The festival is followed by ice and snow sculptors from various countries.

The exhibition is held in 3 main locations, the Sun Island Park (Taiyang Dao Gongyuan) for ice and snow sculptures, Snow and Ice World (Bingxue Gong) to replicas of buildings from blocks of ice and snow, and Zhaolin Park for ice lanterns.
During the festival you can see the beauty of more than 2000 snow and ice sculptures are fascinating look complete with a touch of colorful lights, music and fireworks. During the festival you will also be presented with other interesting events, such as swimming in the Songhua River, ice hockey games, football games in the field of ice, as well tournament invitation Yabuli Alpine skiing, ice carving competitions, film festivals, exhibitions and wedding ceremonies on ice.

Beautiful ice sculpture not only can you enjoy the exhibition arena. Even along the road, in front of every major building, and the field was lined colorful ice sculpture. The size of the snow sculptures were diverse, there is great like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and the poles are lined up. And some are smaller and shaped like flowers and sculptures with a layer of chocolate cake. Perhaps, after the festival period, ice sculptures will be destroyed with dynamite.

Sculptures are displayed at the Sun Island Park (Taiyang Dao Gongyuan) are not just carvings made of clear ice blocks alone. There are also sculptures made of several tons of snow piles shaped like castles, dragons, traditional house, and head of the royal army. Replication of other magnificent buildings ever built from blocks of ice and snow of them are Great Wall of China, Tian’anmen, pagodas, and Niagara Falls. No wonder if the festival held in the city that has a nickname ‘Pearl on the swan neck’ because Heilongjiang shape that resembles a goose, it could break the record and entered the Guinness Book with the criteria of ice lantern exhibition open space the biggest, longest, and most wide-ranging.

While visiting this place during the day, you can take pictures and enjoy the sweet delicacy that is served complete with boiled his tea to keep warm in the middle of the cold temperature of the ‘City of Ice’ is.

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Barcelona is a city located in Spain and is the capital of Catalonia. Travel to this city can be reached about 150 km from the French border. Barcelona is a city that presents live gallery of modern architecture and stylish decor.

In this place you can find many buildings by architect Antoni Gaudi, ranging from medieval churches, Roman walls remaining until the other streets. In fact, because beauty and rich cultural heritage, Hans Christian Andersen’s call this city as the “Paris of Spain”.

Want to visit the place which is the iconic Barcelona? Sagrada Familia place.

Sagrada Familia is a huge cathedral that was built since 1884. This church was considered quite controversial because up to now has not completed construction. In this one place you will be amazed by the detailed carvings. At the top of the tower wall, there is also an angel sculpture is amazing. Sagrada Familia is the most famous tourist attraction in Barcelona, is not wrong if this place is included in the list required to be visited by tourists.

For the audience of the works of Pablo Ruiz Picasso, there is one place you must visit, the Picasso Museum on Montcada. In addition to his work, in this museum you can also see the closeness of the maestro with Barcelona, until his death.

As for you the true football lovers, do not miss a visit to Camp Nou Barca. By paying around 17Euro, you can tour the museum and stadium. You also have the opportunity to take pictures with the trophy.

La Rambla is a pedestrian strip on the left-right is a street car filled with pedestrians. In this place there is a row of stalls selling various kinds of souvenirs, flowers and plants, paintings to photographs and caricatures of singers. La Rambla is also offering a unique place to visit. In this place you can see many street performers who dress up themselves as living sculptures with various themes that are very creative.

To buy souvenirs typical of Barcelona you can stop by the La Boqueria market. In this market you can find special kiosks that sell chocolate brown traditional Catalan. Chocolate is made from grains of sugar-coated almonds and diselubung chocolate, then rolled in cocoa powder. 10 grains is appreciated 3Euro brown. La Boqueria market is the most famous market in Spain. No wonder that visitors from outside of Barcelona to come here to look for something exotic or just eye wash.

A few hundred yards from the Boqueria market, you can find the Liceu Opera House neoclassical architecture since 1848. This building stores tragic story because it was burned twice, namely in 1861 and 1994. In 1893 the group bombed Santiago Salvador that left 20 people dead. And reopened in 1999 with the performance of Giacomo Puccini’s work. At the end of the road, there is a statue of Columbus (Mirador de Colom), which soars high, pointing towards the open sea. That is the statue of the first European to set foot in the Americas at the end of the 15th century.

Another shopping area that you can visit the Placa de Francesco Macia. In this large department store you could serve, with local goods and foreign first class. Yes, shopping at one place was enough to drain your pocket. But in this place you also can buy things colorful mosaic pattern typical of Barcelona. This mosaic of broken bottle-based, ceramic, glass, and any fractional interest if put together. Kind also varied, ranging from drinking tableware, home furnishings, accessories, and more.

Catalonia famous as a storehouse of delicious Spanish food no doubt. The main ingredient of this dish is a seafood place with a mix of other unusual materials. For example, goat meat is mixed menu of seafood, chicken with fruit, or fish with beans. But the most important keys in a variety of offerings in this place is the sauce. And the cuisine is usually served in large portions. One of the restaurants that you can visit is Los Caracoles, which serves delicious snails, as well as chicken and roast beef with a few choice side dishes.

As the day began to dusk, you can enjoy a variety of snack night at the Career Santalo, Carter Maria Cubi and surrounding areas. This area is a favorite hangout citizens of Barcelona.

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Makassar is the capital of South Sulawesi. The city is known by a variety of interesting attractions to visit. One of them is Losari. On the beach that became the pride of the people of Makassar is, you can see the panoramic sunset views. Many tourists who say that this beach has a panoramic view of the world’s most beautiful sunset. No wonder if every evening hundreds of people had come to witness the panorama of the red sun that seemed to sink into the ocean while enjoying the sea breeze. In addition, you also can find a large enough culinary palaces along the coastal area which is located about three miles from the center of Makassar (Field Karebosi) this. There are dozens of cafes that provide a variety of foods and beverages.

Other attractions you can visit soon is Trans Studio Resort Makassar. Trans Studio is the largest indoor theme park in the world. This place has more than 20 rides games that attract children and adults. Its location not far from the beach Losari.

Moving into the middle of town, you can visit Fort Ujung Pandang (Fort Rotterdam), which is of Gowa Kingdom. Inside this complex you can also visit the Museum of La Galigo which is the central replica Gowa royal government. One legacy of the kingdom of Gowa is the famous literary manuscripts written on papyrus sheets 3,500 sheets entitled I La Galigo.

In addition, there are also other attractions that are not less interesting to visit, namely Bantimurung Waterfall. In the complex waterfall is located 45 kilometers north of Makassar, you can relax with the family by renting bungalows are available while enjoying the beautiful waterfall tours and clear. This tourist area is also a habitat for many species of rare butterflies. No wonder when the Dutch colonizers once called this place as the “Kingdom of Butterfly”.

There are 2 caves in the region Bantimurung waterfall, the Cave of Dreams and Batu Caves. Cave of Dreams is located much closer, while the Batu Caves is located on top near the waterfall with the distance even further. Near this place there are some traders who are selling various souvenirs beautiful butterflies that have been preserved in a glass box and the butterfly which is used as keychains.

You can enjoy the coolness and freshness of the air by visiting the city of Makassar Malino. This place is famous as the “Top of his” Makassar. In this place you also can enjoy the natural beauty, such as waterfalls, vegetable and pine plantations, horseback riding, and the most famous is enjoying the passion which is the mainstay commodity area.

When you visit to Makassar, do not forget to stop by and enjoy the culinary delights of the town. Among them is the Coto Makassar, Civil Sop, Sop Konro, Nyuknyang, Kapurung, ice Palubutung, and typical traditional snacks of this city, namely bananas Epe.
It feels incomplete to visit this city if they do not buy souvenirs typical of the local town. You can stop by to Jalan Somba Opu. In this place, you can find a variety of souvenirs, silk, silver to gold.

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