Sapporo Snow and Ice Festival begins in Japan
The Sapporo Snow and Ice Festival
Credit: (Takashi Noguchi/AFP/Getty Images)
Traditional Thai dancers perform in front of a large snow sculpture of Thailand's Wat Bendamabophit temple at the opening of the annual snow festival in Sapporo, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, Feb. 5, 2013. Some two million people are expecting to visit the week-long festival which has over 200 snow sculptures.
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