Near the entrance to the ice and snow festival there were some ice horses and terracotta-warrior-ish statues in front of this big palace. Upon closer inspection, you can see that the palace is also made entirely of ice .

Over to the right, there were a pair of giant buddhas
next to a sphinx with slides on it and a futuristic cityscape

Continuing on, we saw an assortment of various skyscrapers to the left and, to thew right, a church and a giant beer bottle.

Then we got to a giant ice castle on a hill of snow and climbed up to look around. The view from the top was amazing, you could see how big the festival was:
view to the left
to the right
from the stairs down
Notice how the buildings have changed colors from the previous picture. A lot of the buildings had their own little light shows going on all the time.

This crystal city area was probably my favorite part. We didn't stay too long though, because by that time we were all pretty cold and miserable.

On the way out, we saw another building and another buddha .