World's Largest Ice Sculpture, China
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, in Northeast of China, celebrating its 35th year in 2019. It is the world's biggest snow and ice festival. The festival, described as an “icy Disneyland”, features plenty of spectacular installations and activities. This year, workers and sculptors cover 600,000 square meters of land with gigantic ice castles and exquisite sculptures. The real attractions are the festival's frosty artistic productions. The snow carving competition is held, where…
Aurora, Incredible Polar Lights
The Aurora is an incredible light show caused by collisions between electrically charged particles released from the sun that enter the earth’s atmosphere and collide with gases such as oxygen and nitrogen. The lights are seen around the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. Auroras that occur in the northern hemisphere are called ‘Aurora Borealis’ or ‘northern lights’ and auroras that occur in the southern hemisphere are called ‘Aurora Australis’ or ‘southern…
Tulip Fields, Holland
The striking colors of the flowering tulip bulbs are a typical sight in Holland during the spring. Part of Holland is transformed into a vast sea of colorful flowers from mid-March to mid-May. It starts with crocus season in March, which is followed by daffodils and hyacinths. Finally the tulips show their gorgeous colors, from mid-April through the first week of May. Tulips basically bloom between 3 and 7 days. People can see tulips north…
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, set up in 1982, is the first authorized national forest park in the northwest of China. The area covers 480 thousand square meters (185 square miles). It belongs to the sub-tropical climate of Central Asia: warm in winter and cool in summer. About 98% of the area is covered with vegetation. Some of them can be traced back as early as the Fourth Ice Age. The Park also boasts a variety…
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California
Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, California. Sequoia and Kings Canyon Park adjoin each other and are managed as one national park. Their elevations extend from the foothills to the summit of Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the contiguous 48 states. The parks contain five unique areas: Foothills, Mineral King, Giant Forest (home to half of the Earth's largest and longest-living trees), Grant Grove (a section of…
