Sapporo Snow Festival 2007
Well it was another great weekend here in japan.This time we decided to pay a 3 days visit to Sapporo, the capital of Northern territory of Japan..called Hokkaido.The main attraction during the winter season is the Sapporo Snow Festival which attracts million of people around the world to see hundreds of beautiful snow statues and ice sculptures.
We took a early JAL flight from Haneda to New Chitose Airport and it took only 1 hr 10 mins to reach our destination. One of my friends told me that New Chitose Airport is Japan's most advanced airport and it always open whatever the weather may be..oh if start comparing this with INDIA then i will almost ruin my mood...The trip here would be different as we have to roam around and see things in a temperature well below Zero degrees... yes the temperature can go below minus as well...And on our way to Nakajima Koen, the place where our Hotel was situated; we came across a LED display board displaying the current temperature.. and it was well below minus.. -8.2 degrees.. Ohh ...the first ting that came in my mind is how the hell am
Oh...so we started off our journey to Odori Park to see the ice sculptures and some of them were masterpieces esp Imperial Palace, The Antarctic, Chakri Maha Prasat Grand Palace. We covered the TV Tower and the the lovely skyline view of odori park from an italian restaurant up inside the tv tower. Next day we went to satoland to see some more fun stuff.. only thing we were kind of interested was the hot air balloon ride but we were demoralised after learning that the rides have been cancelled due to heavy winds...Doesn't matter we found out one more ride..his time its was a Snowrafting..was kinda of different ride although !!
Later in the night we went to Mt Moiwa to see the night time views of the lovely city of choices..Sapporo..well the good thing there was that we found out a lovely BAR-The Ice.. had some kind of cocktail and we were asked to drink it slowly so as to make urself realize the distinct taste of each layer of liquior....and it had 5 flavors ..which i forgot totally after drinking the stuff...for some obvious reasons :-)
On the final day, the weather became furious and it was snowing the whole day..oh one great thing is that we covered all the weather situations during our stay at Sapporo..we the trip was goin to over we had some many places to cover and we had o decide a single place as the time was running out of our palms..so we to go to Sapporo Bier Garten .. the main attraction here was to have a bite of exotic cuisine - Genghiz Khan , an all-you-can-eat meal of beef or pork which people have to cook on their own at their own table. Ohh..the food and the Sapporo Beer was a perfect match with the snowing weather all around..
Well the 3 days trip was almost over by now and we had an late evening flight to catch to tokyo and same as usual again the routine work will start until the weekends approach !!!
Altogether we enjoyed the short, relaxing stay@ Sapporo and hope that we will visit the place again in the next winter vacations.
Signing off.........
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