Icehotel, The Coldest Hotel in the World

Icehotel is a hotel carved from ice, in a village in Sweden near the Arctic Circle named Jukkasjärvi. Every year the hotel is built from scratch in the winter, and melts when warm air returned. Icehotel has also become a James Bond movie set Die Another Day (2002). History begins from a public relations officer of local tourism, Yngve Bergqvist. In winter, the area is often devoid of travelers. Understandably, the available attractions are no different from the general snow country. For example, people skiing or sitting on a train pulled by dozens of snow wolf.

What's so strange? Then, one day in the winter of 1989, Bergqvist build an igloo in the Torne River was frozen. At first, it is merely demonstrating arts and crafts of indigenous Sami. To his surprise, there are some tourists who "reservations". They want to sleep in an igloo-style exotic Sweden.

Bergqvist also responded to the challenge. The following year, he founded the Eskimo-style building is in a larger scale. The building 4000 square meters. Those building made from 10,000 ton block of ice that comes from the river, and 30,000 tons of snow. In addition to providing 100 guest rooms, at the Ice Hotel is also a steam room, the room for a church, a special bar called "Absolute Ice". All the furniture in it are made of ice, such as chairs, chandeliers and even glass, stone sterling ice.

The temperature inside the hotel ranged from 3-9 degrees Celsius below zero. In the bedroom was the bed of a block of ice and a sprinkling of snow, close with reindeer skins complete with feathers. Guests sleep comfortably in the sleeping bag. In some rooms there were bunk beds. Part of the morning menu of hot drinks, served at the bedside. The price average about kronor1000 = $ 80 per person.

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