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The Ice Hotel
Jukkasjärvi
Lappland
Northern Sweden
Sweden
Type: Hotel
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Lappland
Northern Sweden
Sweden
Type: Hotel
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Imagine that youbuild a hotel. People work day and night for you over several weeks to get it ready in time. It becomes a huge success, but when the season ends, someone destroys it and you have to rebuild for the next season. The same thing will happen the following year and the one after that and so on.
Doesn’t sound tempting, does it? But this is what the creator of the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi has to put up with, only he knew about it before he started and it’s not being destroyed by some jealous competitor across town, but by Mother Nature. It all started when some Japanese artists visited the area and started carving ice sculptures, which caught a lot of people’s
attention.
A Frenchman named Jannot Derid liked the idea and started an art exhibition in an igloo in 1990. Some visitors decided to spend the night in the igloo and the idea of creating a hotel made of ice was born. Every year, 30,000 tons of snow and 4,000 tons of ice are used to construct the large building with 60 rooms.
The hotel opens every year in the middle of December after about a month of construction and closes in the spring sometime in late April or early May; it all depends on the weather, of course. The hotel slowly starts melting as the days become longer and is usually gone by mid-May. Other things you can do at the Ice Hotel are watch a Shakespeare play at the Ice Globe Theatre or get married at the Ice Chapel.
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