Friday 1/23/15
Today we traveled 3 hours north to the ice hotel. The rooms are expensive so we did a day trip. Had to stop several times for reindeer in the road. We ended up going a little too far north because we got lost. The farthest latitude I've gone now is 68.05 degrees North. 0.8 degrees farther than my dad did in Alaska! It was about -30 degrees ambient fahrenheit but not as cold actually inside the hotel.
Every year they build the hotel using casts and water from the Torne river, into which the ice melts at the end of the season. The water is cleaner than most drinking waters because the river is so slow moving and deep. There were many rooms, an ice bar and a church. Some of the rooms were suites with unique ice and snow art sculptures and designs. It is impossible to describe the beauty and wonderment of the place so here are some pictures!
Today we traveled 3 hours north to the ice hotel. The rooms are expensive so we did a day trip. Had to stop several times for reindeer in the road. We ended up going a little too far north because we got lost. The farthest latitude I've gone now is 68.05 degrees North. 0.8 degrees farther than my dad did in Alaska! It was about -30 degrees ambient fahrenheit but not as cold actually inside the hotel.
Every year they build the hotel using casts and water from the Torne river, into which the ice melts at the end of the season. The water is cleaner than most drinking waters because the river is so slow moving and deep. There were many rooms, an ice bar and a church. Some of the rooms were suites with unique ice and snow art sculptures and designs. It is impossible to describe the beauty and wonderment of the place so here are some pictures!
an awesome painting in the reception building
entrance of the hotel, complete with reindeer fur and antler handles
absolut inspired ice bar, other ice bars are in Stockholm and London
Ruby and Sidney enjoying a cocktail in an ice glass
dog sled behind on the Torne River
Sidney and I in one of the rooms
A Suite
other wall of suite
Sidney and I at a table in one of the rooms
Another suite with wolf sculptures
Really c-c-c-o-o-o-o-o-l-l-l! Haha! Looks like the kind of beauty that pictures cannot fully relate. BTW, 0.8 degrees further north, not 2. But you win anyway. CONGRATULATIONS!
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