Photo: Graeme Richardson
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3. ICE music
The coolest winter music experience in more ways than one. Tim Linhart’s ice musicians in Luleå invite us to a concert where the ice speaks. This personifies the Arctic in a wonderful way – professional musicians who let the voice of ice speak inside a cosmic igloo. www.icemusic.com
4. ICE hotel
ICEHOTEL, photo: Asaf Kliger
More than 25 years ago Yngve Bergqvist looked out from the Inn in Jukkasjärvi and thought that there must be a way of developing the destination for winter. Up until then it had been a summer destination because of the midnight sun. But inspired by Japanese ice artists Yngve got the idea to construct a hotel out of ice. The first modest igloo was 60 square metres, but an instant success. This year’s ice hotel is made using 1,000 tonnes of ice in the form of blocks from the Torne River, and 30,000 cubic metres ’snice’, a special kind of artificial snow that’s made especially for the hotel. Speaking in terms of snowball wars that’s 700 million snowballs. And of course Yngve was right: today more visitors come for the ice than for the midnight sun. www.icehotel.com
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